This cantilever gantry crane is an often-seen type of rail mounted gantry crane used to handle large loads outdoors, such as in freight yards, sea port. The single beam gantry crane or double beam gantry crane should be chosen according to specific requirements on load capacity and other special customized requirements. When lifting loads are below 50 tons, the span is below 35 meters, no specific requirements of the application, the choice of the single-beam type gantry crane is suitable. If the requirements of door girder is wide, working speed is fast, or heavy part and long part are frequently lifted, then the double beam gantry crane must be selected. The cantilever gantry crane is shaped like a box, with the double girders being slanted tracks, and the legs divided into Types A and Types U according to use requirements.
The standard double-girder gantry crane is applicable to the common load, unload, lift, and handling works at outdoor yards and railroad yards. The cantilever gantry crane are able to handle larger, heavier loads at outdoor locations, such as ports, shipyards, warehouses, and building sites. The cantilever gantry crane is operated on ground-mounted travelling tracks, and is mostly used for loading and unloading operations at outdoor storage yards, piers, power plants, ports and railroad yards, among others. The cantilever gantry crane is applied in a variety of open-air work areas for handling heavy loads or materials, usually found in warehouses, railroad yards, container yards, scrap yards, and steel yards.
Owing to its nature, an outdoor gantry crane is an extensive piece of mechanical equipment that is used frequently. Gantries are available with similar capacities and spans to bridge cranes, and are suited to indoor as well as outdoor applications. Gantries are similar to bridge cranes, except they operate on tracks below ground level.