High fashion with Terex

French crane service company Cauvas took to the runway for France's Fashion Week when it was called in to hoist and place a drive unit for a carousel in the Square Courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris.

Cauvas chose its Terex AC 100/4L for the job which required lifting a 3.5 tonne load. It said the 100 tonne capacity crane was powerful, yet compact enough to pass through the museum's narrow entrance portico. The crane had to position the carousel's drive unit very accurately, lowering it through a very small opening in the top of the tent it was placed in.

In position parallel to the tent, the crane began by lifting the load to 10 m. After slewing 90 degrees, the carousel drive unit was positioned directly above a rectangular opening barely wider than the load itself. Rigging lines had been secured to the load beforehand, so that crewmen inside the tent could steer the load to align it with the opening. Once aligned, the operator lowered the drive unit onto the waiting carousel structure. The entire operation took half an hour.