Portable Gantry Crane Systems
Portable gantry cranes are smaller lighter-duty gantry systems that run on casters or rubber wheels. These wheels allow the user to move it throughout a facility to handle various materials or loads. When they're empty and not under load, they can be moved or stored anywhere throughout a shop or into different work cells to offer greater space-saving and floor space flexibility.
Full gantry or semi-gantry cranes are commonly used for heavy fabrication applications, or in some type of outdoor yard—rail yards, shipping and container yards, steel yards, and scrap yards. They're also very popular for cement and precast applications for areas where they're forming and curing slab concrete. Their design allows them to be used outdoors and also allows forklift trucks and other motorized traffic to work and cross through underneath.
Typically, portable gantry cranes are used to lift and hold something in place while it's being worked on, fabricated, or assembled. The load isn't necessarily being moved through the facility, but the gantry itself can be moved around to work on different parts or equipment. Portable gantry systems can also offer more flexibility than a jib crane or workstation crane. A jib crane typically has to be installed onto a poured concrete foundation and once it's installed - it's pretty much permanent. A smaller portable gantry crane can perform the same type of work as a jib crane, but can be moved about your facility as your business grows and you begin optimizing and laying out warehouse space.
Developed by these kinds of Gantry Crane Systems, there are also some different Gantry Crane for different usage such as Single Beam Rubber Tired Gantry Crane, Boat Lift Gantry Crane, Launching Gantry Crane(or called Launch Gantry Cranes), Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes, etc. Besides many other cranes are widely used the the industrial production like Double Beam Rubber Tired Crane, Shipyard Boat Lift Crane, Portal Jib Crane, Marine Boat Lift Crane, Yacht Hoist Crane, etc.