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The HIAB Method of Building Site Deliveries
Looking back with HIAB Method magazine, we feature another issue from 1966. The first article, called “HIAB on site,” discusses some new challenges that builders were facing at the time. The article notes that many of the resources on a building site were dedicated to moving materials around, so any efficiencies that could be realized […]
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Another Look Back at HIAB – Introduction of Hydraulically Foldable Truck Cranes
Get a Quote on a HIAB Crane The headline on the article says it all: “Hydraulically foldable”. This innovation in truck cranes was announced in HIAB Method No. 3, published in 1966. The article was introducing the new 16-ton-foot model of the HIAB Speedloader 174, which was the lightest in its class and “without any […]
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Looking Back with HIAB Method – A Woman Blazes a Trail as A Truck Driver and Crane Operator
Get a Quote on a HIAB Crane Given the way we live these days, it is hard to imagine a time when a woman driving a truck would be news, but back in 1966, it was. The idea of a female haulage contractor with four trucks got a lot of attention back then, as an […]
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Atlas Polar, HIAB and the Canadian Forestry Industry
Back in 1966, HIAB product manager and timber transportation expert, Erik Forsgren, visited Canada to study the methods used to transport timber from logging operations around Canada. He was “given the opportunity through the good offices of [HIAB’s] representative in Canada, Atlas Polar of Toronto.” At the time, trucks were often loaded by hand—not the […]
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Looking Back at HIAB – Making Short Work of Long Beams
Get a Quote on a HIAB Crane Today we take another look back at some of the innovations made by HIAB. This time, we are looking at the second edition of HIAB Method magazine, published in 1966, to see how the long concrete beams that were “increasingly coming into use in present-day building” were transported. […]
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HIAB and the Space Program
Get a Quote on a HIAB Crane In a previous post I mentioned that I would be highlighting some of HIAB’s colourful history in this blog, sourced from our collection of HIAB Method magazines from decades past Looking through edition 1-65, from 1965, one picture really caught my eye. You can see it too on […]
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Looking Back with HIAB Method Magazine
Get a Quote on a HIAB Boom Truck HIAB and Atlas Polar have been partners for a very long time—since 1953 in fact. We are the oldest independent HIAB truck crane dealer in the world! This long history was brought home to me when I stumbled upon some old issues of HIAB Method magazine. I […]