The art of precision

In the night of 28 to 29 September 2005, between 01.00 am and 06.30 am, our Mexico agency proceeded to the unloading of a lyophilization machine of 9 Tons, 6.00 x 2.80 x 3.20 m (L x W x H) and one equipment machine of 2 Tonnes, 2.91 x 2.10 x 2.30.

The unloading took place during the night, in a sloping and narrow street, residential area, with electrical wires all over mixed up in the street and into the shed. The latter shed was jammed between 2 residential buildings, with no bolsters in its structure to support the loading, and we had to smash down walls to enable the entrance of the loading.

We evacuated all surrounding vehicles by night, and called for a telescopic crane, fixed to balance on its rear-wheels at 1.70 m height in order to make up for the slope of the street, and lifted up the crates to about 50 m high to overpass electrical wires and surrounding buildings and eventually smoothly lowered the loadings into the inner part of the shed.

The smallest crate (2 Tons) was entered into the shed balancing back and forth and dropping it on mini-wheeled carriages that we pushed inside immediately so as to release the structure of the overweight and avoid any collapse.

The biggest crate (9 Tons) was dropped down into the front-yard, just between wires, leaving only 5 cm on either side to the walls.

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