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Thanks to our up-tower crane technology, these healthy corn seedlings will continue to grow throughout the summer months, and they'll provide a valuable harvest as autumn approaches. By utilizing our RotorHook™ technology, which mounts to the wind turbine nacelle, we're able to perform this complex wind turbine repair while keeping our ground footprint to an absolute minimum.

By comparison, other wind turbine contractors often need to destroy the majority of the crop around the tower, to make way for large traditional cranes, hundreds of crane mats, and dozens of tractor-trailers.

This is just one more way that we're making green energy even greener.

Our operations, procurement, and deployment teams are working diligently to deploy our next crane team: RotorHook™ 771. This week, in preparation for this new deployment, our team successfully completed the overload testing of this handsome General Electric 2.X interface.

This new crane kit will be deployed across North America, commencing in August 2026. Stay tuned for more details!

Today, we take a moment to recognize and celebrate all the fathers across our company.

Fatherhood brings a unique kind of leadership: one rooted in responsibility, patience, resilience, and care.

To all the fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, and father figures among us — thank-you for everything you do, both at work and at home. Your dedication does not go unnoticed.

Wishing you a well-deserved and meaningful Father’s Day.

It's taken a long time. But here in the wind turbine industry, we have finally entered a new age of crane-less maintenance.

Keep in mind that behind every dark and ominous cloud, the sun still shining.

Happy Friday, everyone!

Clockwise from top left, meet Bobby, Alex, John, and Luke. A mix of engineers and wind turbine technicians, these four gentleman have very different backgrounds and skillsets. But here at LiftWerx, they all have a lot of things in common, as follows:

1). They have worked for LiftWerx for several years, averaging a tenure of 6 years each.

2). All of them started in junior roles in the company, as individual contributors in both field and office environments. Today, all of them have taken steps in their respective career journeys, shifting to roles which involve managing, training, or mentoring others.

3). All of them are experts in the rapidly-growing realm of crane-less technology.

4). All four gentleman are members of our "LiftWerx Club", and they hold investment units in the company. These units are granted to all LiftWerx employees after two years of service, regardless of position. Today, these units are growing rapidly in value.

At LiftWerx, we don't hire people for their hands. We hire them for what they bring from the neck up. And we endeavor to provide stable, longstanding, and fulfilling careers to those who are interested in achieving long-term value and rewards.

Kudos to Team 695, who just exchanged all of the blade bearings on this General Electric tower at a wind farm in Canada.

In this photo, the team is utilizing four different cranes. On the ground, a Liebherr LTM1250 "GroundHook" crane is utilized to temporarily remove the blades and subsequently exchange the bearings. In the nacelle, there are three different up-tower cranes in use: a Heli-Hook™ crane, a GenHook™ crane, and a RotorHook™ crane.

This efficient and surprisingly small crane system can be utilized to safely exchange any major component, including gearboxes, main shafts, generators, single blades, pitch bearings, or fully-assembled rotors.

People often ask "how do your cranes get on top of the wind turbine"? Or sometimes people simply assert their incorrect assumption that traditional ground cranes are utilized to install our up-tower cranes. But this is not the case, of course. Requiring ground cranes to install our up-tower cranes would defeat the purpose of creating crane-less technology.

All of our up-tower cranes have the ability to safely and efficiently install themselves on wind turbine nacelles. They are lifted up in a modular pieces, with strategic and optimized logistical precision, that allows even the most complex and high-capacity crane systems to be installed within an assembly period of two days.

These photos show a few snapshots from the assembly of a RotorHook™ v2 system. When installed on a 114-meter tower, this system transforms into a powerful machine which has similar lifting capabilities as Liebherr's LG1750. But as it packs up in only three standard ISO 40-foot containers, it is mobilized with 10x fewer trucks, without the need for road permits, and at a much lower cost.

We'd like to introduce Doug Sampson. Doug has worked at LiftWerx for six years. As one of our most experienced and trusted commercial drivers, he has worked on virtually every type of LiftWerx team, exchanging generators, gearboxes, main bearings, blades, and pitch bearings.

Doug is highly-respected at LiftWerx, not only for his enviable skills, but also for being a selfless team player. It's not a secret that everybody likes to work with Doug, as he works tirelessly to support his colleagues, in the spirit of achieving success as a team.

This photo was taken this week, and it's a testment to Doug's kindness, good cheer, and willingness to support others. While visiting a supermarket after work, Doug kindly decided to deliver a motorized cart to the front of the store, to assist an elderly woman in Pennsylvania.

Kudos to Doug! He's an icon that all of us look up to.