Lift plan
A lift plan is more than picking a crane. Load, radius, boom configuration and counterweight are set together, then verified position by position: crane assembly, rotation, initial position and final position. Every position has its own reactions.
Crane support
It is often the ground, not the crane, that governs. Bearing capacity under the outriggers is verified and the spreader mats are sized. Where the crane bears on an existing structure — a slab, a deck, a buried structure — the reactions transmitted to that structure become the governing criterion.
Non-standard lifts
Some manoeuvres fall outside the simple case: two cranes working together, travelling with a suspended load, restricted clearance. The sequence is then defined with the same rigour as the capacity.
