During our cruise of the Baltic, Scandinavia and Great Britain, our cruise ship, Holland America's brand-new Eurodam, overnighted in St Petersburg, where after touring the Hermitage (one of the world's greatest art museums) we amused ourselves by watching Russian dockworkers move huge stacks of humongous steel plates from one pile to another, before finally selecting a few that were loaded aboard a rickety freighter by one of these cranes.
Now I've seen numerous Western-world cranes that look nothing like this one, which seems to have an inordinate number of bellcranks, pull rods and such. Perhaps one of our comrades on MLS could 'splain why this Zil 117 (I just made that up) is better than its German- or Finnish-made counterparts.
Now I've seen numerous Western-world cranes that look nothing like this one, which seems to have an inordinate number of bellcranks, pull rods and such. Perhaps one of our comrades on MLS could 'splain why this Zil 117 (I just made that up) is better than its German- or Finnish-made counterparts.