Forrestfield Mobile Crane

DTMT

​Founded in 1982 by Managing Director Joe Dujmovic as a concrete company, DTMT began with a team of four and have come a long way since.

1989 saw their start in civil works with a contract in Paraburdoo. 

 

Over the years to today (an impressive 43 year later!!), DTMT have continued with hundreds of civil work projects Australia-wide. 

 

Within Western Australia, their long list includes:

• another Hamersley Iron Project in Paraburdoo

• Ammonium Nitrate Civil Works in Kwinana

• Closing the mine openings at the Wittenoom Project

• Concrete works at the Red Hill Quarry in Midland

• A number of contracts at the HBI Clarifiers Project in Port Hedland and

• Various Contracts at Telfer, Tiwest Kwinana, Lawlers Gold Mine, Murrin Murri Nickel Cobalt, Cape Lambert, Mesa J Plant, Kirkalocka Gold Project and so much more!

A special mention is definitely in order for their coolest project, with the construction of the Metropolis City Nightclub in Northbridge 1995!

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Without knowing the full history of DTMT, it appears that companies like DTMT, who care about the work they do rather than focusing on profits (which appears to be commonplace these days), enjoy high levels of respect and confidence in their work. It also appears they haven't grown too big too fast, hence the impression of a strong stable company base with a long future to come.

 

Telescopic Crane

Long since moved for the site's redevelopment, which saw a number of modern commercial buildings constructed on the site, this old historic Telescopic crane definitely stopped me in my tracks when I saw it.

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At the time of photographing this, I was working with mobile and tower cranes, so it was certainly fascinating to see one of the old school mobiles and how far we've progressed to the range of Grove mobile cranes we worked with.

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It appears to be a 1984 Lorain MCH 300 Truck Mounted Telescopic Boom Crane.

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Who knows what's happened to it now, especially with the current industry standards for lifting requirements progressing over time, since this was telescopic boom was more relevant. Hopefully this crane hasn't been stripped or destroyed and is just resting somewhere.