AIRCRANE OPERATIONS.
Our pilots and rigging crews have a great deal of experience performing rooftop installations under all types of conditions and situations.
Experience, skill and pre-planning are crucial to ensure a safe operation while achieving the minimum downtime for equipment to be in transit. We pre-plan all lifts and train the customer's personnel on what each person's role is on each lift as well as safety and emergency procedures. Our personnel, when allocated to a project, works alongside the project leader to determine the safest practices and the most suitable techniques to achieve maximum efficiency for the customer.
Our helicopters perform construction support in places where installations would otherwise be impossible, thereby overcoming expensive road construction and environmental restrictions. Our pilots perform these tasks with the necessary precision to provide a cost effective alternative to more traditional construction methods. Setting steel is one of the more specialized areas that require the highest level of precision and experience. Our flying crews have gained this experience over the years, constructing communication towers and setting structural steel.
The size of the specific project or detail to be completed will dictate the most effective helicopter to be utilised. Different aspects pertaining to construction have been employed and numerous creative ideas are being explored and developed.
Typical air crane services include but are not limited to:
- Complete tower assemblies' placement or pole planting.
- Precision placement of objects onto high-rise buildings and many others.
- Radio mast/antennae installations or repairs.
Testimony: Air Crane in Action
Air Crane Operations: Komati Power Station
| Eskom, the national power utility of South Africa, re-commissioned some of their mothballed power stations as part of the overall upgrade of their generating capacity. Tasked to sling into position the structure that made up the dome of one of the chimneys, Chopper Worx used a Bell 407 for this task, due to the precision needed during the lift. |

