IDEAL CRANE NEWS AND INFO
Learn about Ideal Crane’s community involvement or read about our equipment in action all around the state.
Ideal Crane Part of Historic Foxconn Project
Ideal Crane was proud to be on-site at the historic Foxconn project to lift the first prefabricated building panels into place. This is the first building in the project and a total of 120 panels were installed for the 120,000-square-foot building in the village of...
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Ideal Crane Presenting Sponsor at Kids Building WI 2018
Ideal Crane equipment made many appearances on Tuesday's WKOW 27 Wake-Up Wisconsin, which talks about the Kids Building Wisconsin event coming up Saturday, May 12. Ideal Crane is a presenting sponsor for the fifth year straight and expecting more than 3,000 kids to...
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Ideal Crane Part of Modular Component Construction
Ideal Crane provided our 240T Liebherr Hydraulic Boom Crawler Crane on-site at a new four-story Marriott hotel in Kenosha county. It's going up fast and will only take two weeks to be erected using modular component construction. It is the first of it's kind in the...
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Ideal Crane Featured in Middleton Review
Middleton, Wis. is buzzing with construction and the Middleton Review featured a photo with our crane on the cover of their issue dated April 9. The photo is of Middleton Center. Middleton Center is being built in three phases in downtown Middleton and it will offer a...
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Ideal Crane’s 60 Minutes Debut
We caught a quick glimpse of one of our cranes in the great feature 60 Minutes recently did on Giannis Antetokounmpo. Giannis is one of the best players in the NBA and as they state, he has quite the story about how he got there. Can you find us? 60 Minutes Video...
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Ideal Crane Featured in Rental Magazine for use of Manitou MRT Series
Ideal Crane Rental and customer Iconica was featured in the January/February edition of Rental magazine. The MRT rotating telehander series offers a three-in-one solution: telehandler, crane-like winch and mobile elevating work platform. Read the article to learn more...
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Liebherr 100T at The Basilica of St Josaphat
Ideal Crane's Liebherr 100T was recently on-site at The Basilica of St Josaphat assisting in painting of the basilica clocks and trim. The basilica is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Wisconsin Historic Site. More than 50,000 people visit the...
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Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders
Ideal Crane knows the importance of educating tomorrow's leaders and we always enjoy our time with Madison College's Construction program students. We partner with the program to provide on the job education. Today the students learned about crane operations, safety...
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Beautiful Day for the Liebherr 330T Crawler
It's a beautiful day for Ideal Crane's Liebherr 330T Crawler to set precast wall panels with two JLG 60-foot boomlifts with welders in the background. The LR 1300 SX crawler is designed for impressive lifting work with high capacity loads. It has high mobility and...
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Leadership Development Conference Washington D.C.
Kurt Kalhagen, Director of Operations out of the Milwaukee, Wis. office was recently selected as an emerging construction leader to attend the Associated General Contractors of America CLC Leadership Development Conference in Washington D.C. He represented the AGC of...
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Link-Belt Plant Tour
Click here to view a crane parade! Members of our team headed to Link-Belt Cranes this week for a tour of their facility in Lexington, Kentucky. Ideal Crane just took delivery of two new Link-Belts, one 100RT and one 100T truck crane....
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SC&RA Crane & Rigging Leadership Forum, Louisville KY
Kristin Chose, Director of Business was recently selected by the SC&RA to attend the 2018 Leadership Forum in Louisville, Ken. at the annual Crane & Rigging Conference. The Leadership Forum is an event designed to engage future leaders of the crane, rigging,...
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75T Terex Cranes Set Laminate Trusses at St. Ann Center
Ideal Crane had two 75T Terex cranes at St. Ann Center: Intergenerational Care Services setting wood laminate trusses. The additional area allows for an Alzheimer's and dementia care unit, overnight respite care unit and childcare classrooms. St. Ann's currently...
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Touring Wisconsin
We recently set out on a tour of Wisconsin's Dairyland for our 81K.1 fast-erecting tower cranes. The 81K.1 offers rapid erection and versatility in use- the tower sections are easy to insert and the radius and hook height can be adjusted to the site situation. What an...
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1st and 2nd place votes from KIDS!
Ideal Crane is a title sponsor at Kids Building WI and we enjoy participating every year. To make things even better we were voted both 1ST and 2ND place for best exhibits at the event. We can't wait to get back to McKee Farms in Fitchburg for the 2019 event! Check it...
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