Link-Belt’s TCC-1200 Telescopic Crawler Crane Gets The Job Done For Oklahoma-Based Brady Crane Service

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In less than six months’ time, Brady Crane Service of Healdton, Oklahoma, has logged more than 560 hours on its new Link-Belt 120-ton TCC-1200 telescopic crawler crane. (Photo courtesy of Link Belt.)

Since purchasing a new Link-Belt 120-ton (110-metric-ton) TCC-1200, Brady Crane Service has logged more than 560 hours of oilfield work with the telescopic crawler crane.

“We use the TCC-1200 for every single component of the drilling rig from 500-pound (226-kilogram) to 100,000-pound (45,359-kilogram) tandem lifts,” says Robin Watts of Brady Crane Service. In some cases, the company will use the TCC-1200 in tandem with its Link-Belt TCC-1100, a 110-ton (100-metric-ton) telescopic crawler crane with more than 2,000 logged hours.

Handling The Load

“We can mobilize the 1100 and 1200 quickly since no outriggers are involved,” notes Watts. “You can pick and carry with your full range of chart. Whatever we tie up to, if it is within our chart, we know we can move it as long as it is level.”

The heaviest single load for the TCC-1200 is the blow-out preventer, weighing 72,000 pounds (32,658 kilograms)—a weight that doesn’t include up to 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of mud that can build up during the operation. “Having a crane capable of handling that extra weight is important,” Watts says.

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Brady Crane uses the TCC-1200 to load and unload trucks and to pick and carry everything from the derrick to the doghouse to the draw works. (Photo courtesy of Link-Belt.)

An Oilfield Workhorse

Brady is currently erecting a 2500-horsepower triple box, which was recently hauled to Lindsay, Oklahoma. The Link-Belt TCC-1200 picks up and carries everything from the derrick to the doghouse, including the substructure and draw works. Link-Belt explains that the substructure is a tandem lift, where a larger all-terrain crane is brought in and stays on one end of the load. The TCC-1200, meanwhile, picks and carries the substructure from its drop-off point, travelling around the center point of the rig.

Source: Link-Belt

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