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Two types of crane worked together on the construction of a 130 m pylon for a new bridge in Germany.

A tower crane was supported by a large lattice boom mobile crane for the final stages of erecting the pylon on the new Rhine Bridge in Wesel. A stationary Liebherr 280 EC-H 16 Litronic tower crane was accompanied by a Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom mobile crane.

The LG 1750 is owned and operated by Berlin-based Grohmann GmbH, while the tower crane is owned by Liebherr distributor Gerd Wedekind Baumaschinen GmbH based in Kassel it is operated by the project's contractor Hermann Kirchner Hoch-und Ingenieurbau GmbH, Bad Hersfeld.

For the pylon project the tower crane has a 70 m working radius where capacity is 3.1 tonnes. The 500 HC tower system on foundation anchors gives a 142.4 m final hook height achieved with one tie to the pylon.

The mobile crane was set up with 56 m of main boom and 70 m luffing jib. Its 16 m² base area and slewing platform extension, which increases the ballast radius by 2.65 m, meant that only 150 tonnes of ballast was needed to erect the mast.