Jason Prorok has a view usually reserved for birds. The Humphrey man is an operating engineer for International Union of ...

CHAMPAIGN – Operating a tower crane isn't for everyone – especially if you're acrophobic, claustrophobic or clumsy. Your whole day is spent in a compact "cabin" about 200 feet in the air. Part of the ...

Welp. I know what job I can never do. And that’s be a tower crane operator. To even start operating a crane, the guy has to make the scariest climb up the entire thing while carefully switching ...

Without tower cranes, it's likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

Could a machine that stands in one small spot on the jobsite ever come close to replacing a go-anywhere telehandler? It could, says the Manitowoc Crane Group, if the machine were a self-erecting tower ...

Nov. 28—LA GRANDE — Cameron Rousseau doesn't need a jolt of espresso to get his blood pumping each weekday morning. The last 130 feet of his journey to work in La Grande does the trick. Rousseau is ...