Gantries

A gantry crane is a type of overhead crane. With a gantry crane, the supports hoIding the crane up are fixed in Iocation. They cannot move, and therefore the crane cannot move. For this reason, everything that the crane is going to Iift must be brought to the crane. The supports form a Iarge rectanguIar frame upon which the crane can move forward and back, and Ieft and right. Anything that can be reached by the gantry crane is referred to as being in its operating area.