Ten ton crane - Cairns - QLD - Australia
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CADS11
S 16° 55.550 E 145° 46.815
55K E 370107 N 8128246
crane at the harbour
Waymark Code: WM11NZF
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 11/23/2019
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First installed in 1908, this last remaining hand operated ten ton crane was purchased with one other for 751 Pounds to hit a varity of imported and exported cargoes to and from horse drawn vehicles and railway cars.
Heavy three wheel klondike trolleys were used to ferry cargo to the ships side. These cargoes included marsupial skins, hides, bananas, coffee, tobacco, beer barrels, mangrove bark, ore and many general cargoes.
One of the last known cargoes lifted by this crane were sugar crushing rollers destined for the Mossman Mill in the mid 1960s.
From the information sign
Type of Machine: crane
Year the machine was built: 1908
Year the machine was put on display: Not listed
Is there online documentation for this machine: Not listed
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