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CraneMate

Reach All LLC

Cranes/Lifts

CraneMate is a sign installer's dream platform. Convert your boom truck to a Skywalk type platform. Quickly attaches to any boom truck. Self contained hydraulic power allows for auto hydraulic leveling and 180 degrees of rotation. Safe, and secure the platform can position workers and signs exactly where they need simultaneously while positioning boom tip to work area - it is only possible with the CraneMate due to the smooth self contained hydraulics. Antiquated gravity leveling is not safe and does not allow for rotating platform loads while boom is in motion. With the optional mini platform jib winch one person can do the work of several and eliminates the need fora second boom truck. The longer 3 m (10 ft) platforms allows more room for material and workers to complete the job faster, often eliminating that second day of travel or a second truck. Convert your crane into a state of the art super sign truck. www.reachallplatforms.com

941-256-4165

CraneMate

Reach All LLC

Cranes/Lifts

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CraneMate 10 x 1000

Furnishing Vancouver’s streets

In a project co-ordinated by TransLink, which manages public transportation services, the city of Vancouver recently enhanced all of its street furniture, including bus shelters (examples pictured), kiosks, maps and newspaper boxes.

Spring and summer cleaning

Crews installing and servicing outdoor signs have seen many changes over the years, as the sector has shifted from wooden ladders, scaffolding and neon to safer and more efficient personnel lifts, bucket trucks and light-emitting diode (LED) retrofits.

Using LEDs in dimensional letters

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to gain popularity throughout the lighting industry, with different types available for different applications, including everything from sign letters and traffic lights to electronic indicators and Christmas lights.

Illuminated Signs: A case study on Apropos

Apropos is the latest in a series of new restaurants to open in Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Designed by Icrave, a studio in New York, N.Y., built by Toronto-based architectural fabrication firm Eventscape, it is actually a pair of restaurants that mirror each other like oversized signs, forming a...

Reviving Maple Leaf Gardens

Toronto’s fabled Maple Leaf Gardens—previously home to major-league hockey, big-name concerts, boxing and other sporting events—recently emerged from a decade of disuse. Its new anchor tenant was not a sports team or event management company, but instead Loblaws, a grocery retail chain with stores across Ontario and Quebec.

Sign Shop Profile: Westcan Sign & Lighting Service

In 2008, when a global recession caused many businesses in Canada to plummet, the hard times may not have seemed ideal for venturing into a new business in a well-established industry. John Thomasen, however, saw an emerging opportunity in Alberta for servicing and maintaining signs and lighting.