For most folks, the Large Hadron Collider is the scene of the next great foray into the nature of the universe. For Hoist magazine, it’s the land of a thousand cranes.
Hoist calls itself "the only global magazine for the industrial crane market. From hoists to winches, crane scales to end of line attachments, Hoist features all types of factory cranes and ancillary lifting equipment."
In a commentary, editor Richard Howes recalls touring the LHC with Ingo Ruehl, head of material handling operations at CERN, the European particle physics lab on the French-Swiss border. Installing 100,000 tons of material in the collider’s tunnels and caverns—about 10 times the heft of the Eiffel Tower—required about 1000 hoists and cranes. It’s stats like that, Howes says, that put the whole operation in perspective, adding:
I think it's fascinating how the equipment you and I deal with every day has played such a crucial part in lifting the lid on the secrets of the universe.
For any crane aficionados out there, read more details about the work at CERN in Hoist's feature.
