What's New at Shawmut Equipment

Manitowoc is expanding its boom insert offering with the new Wide Boom Plus kit for its MLC300 lattice-boom crawler crane. The MLC300 AND MLC300 VPC-MAX® are the choice crane picks for maintenance work on multiple wind farm projects across the US and Canada. And now, the New Wide Boom Insert extended reach and capacity radically expands the use of the MLC300 for renewable energy jobs, particularly maintenance and assembly of wind turbines.
The hundreds of wind turbines erected during the early 2000s Wind Construction boom are now reaching a point in life cycle where they need scheduled maintenance and upgrades. Canadian Maritime Contractor A.W.
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With the New Year comes new and exciting opportunities, especially here at Shawmut Equipment! Shawmut Equipment is proud to officially be a Manitou telehandler dealer.  Shawmut will be offering Manitou’s construction telehandlers and rotating telehandlers.
A-Quick Pick Crane Service Inc, a second-generation family-owned crane, rigging, trucking and storage company, has recently expanded their fleet with one of Grove’s newest all-terrain cranes, the Grove GMK5250XL-1. 
Manitowoc is expanding its boom insert offering with the new Wide Boom Plus kit for its MLC300 lattice-boom crawler crane. The new inserts will give crane operators extra reach by lengthening their booms up to 429.8 ft (131 m) when used in combination with the VPC-MAX® and extended upper boom points. They will be particularly useful for assembling wind turbines.
Check out Aetna Bridge using a GRT8100 to hoist up supply materials to the access platforms for the painters on the Gold Star Memorial Bridge Project down in the New London/ Groton, CT area.  This crane also assisted in building the access platforms for the iron workers and painters performing the repairs to the bridge.