THE INNOVATIVE ARLIFT EQUIPMENT CAN BE USED EVEN DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CASTLE!

Mikhailovsky or the engineering castle is currently a Museum with permanent exhibitions dedicated to history and art.

We have prepared some interesting facts for you:

1. the Engineering castle was built as a new impregnable Palace-castle by order of Emperor Paul 1 and became the place of his murder; 2. after the death of the Emperor, the castle fell into disrepair for 20 years. During this time, Alexander 1 melted down the silver gates of the castle for a gift wedding service, and Nicholas 1 "mined" marble in the Palace for the construction of the Hermitage; 4. the engineering castle received Its unusual nickname in 1823, when the Nikolaev engineering school was located there; 5. Russia's only building in the style of romantic classicism; 6. Mikhailovsky castle is shrouded in mystery, so it is not surprising that there are 3 legends about it. The first of them is connected with the prediction of the fool, which said that "the Emperor will live as many years as the letters in the inscription above the Resurrection gate of the new Palace." This inscription consists of 47 characters, the forty-seventh year was Paul when he was killed; 7. the second, more famous legend says that the castle walls are inhabited by the Ghost of Paul 1, who could not leave the place of his death; 8. the last legend tells about the reasons for choosing the color of the walls of the Mikhailovsky castle - the Emperor chose this color in honor of the color of the glove of his favorite Anna Gagarina (Lopukhina); 9. in 2020, the company ARLIFT participated in the restoration of the premises of the Mikhailovsky castle. The ARLIFTER SPD360CDH mini-crane and ARLIFTER GS-R-600 vacuum gripper were used to install a large-sized mirror with a thickness of 6 mm and a size of 5*3 m in the St. George hall.

The importance of using the mini-crane ARLIFT SPD360CDH for mounting mirrors in Mikhailovsky castle was formed from several criteria:
• its dimensions (3100x800x1990 mm), because it was necessary to bring a mini-crane through the balcony to work inside the castle;
• weight (2,300 kg), because the building is an old building with a delicate surface that could not be damaged;
• maximum reach of the boom (10.5 m), because it was necessary to intercept the mirror from the crane and move it to the installation site;
• load capacity (1 800 kg), because there was a large mirror weight + the weight of the vacuum gripper (90 kg).

The ARLIFTER GS-R-600 vacuum gripper is designed for installation of radial glass up to 600 kg. Due to the wide contact area of the suction cups with the glass, it was possible to eliminate the possibility that the mirror would crack or be damaged in any way during work. And the remote control significantly simplified and accelerated the installation process.