Dive summary:

• Casper, Wyo.-based Transportation Partners and Logistics LLC has an assignment to assemble wind-turbines at a Kansas project, and the company is using a new crane from Liebherr that combines a telescoping boom with the kind of powerful crawler base that usually means a lattice-work boom.
• The rig is the LTR-1220, which can scrunch its boom down to 44 feet for transport and extend it to its full 197-foot reach (not counting an available lattice jib) in seven minutes.
• The rig also can vary its track width from 14.75 feet to 19.25 feet or 23.75 feet, which TP&L says allows the machine to work in areas where operators may encounter pipelines or power lines.

From the article:

Jim Orr, president of TP&L, said the LTR 1220's ability to maneuver in and around pipe racks while carrying its full load sealed this deal.  ...