Ken Bowyer, a crane operator for ALL Crane Rental of Florida, based in Tampa, has been named champion of the 2014 National Crane Rodeo. The event was held during the ConExpo\/CONAGG 2014 trade show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Bowyer said his favorite Stetson cowboy hat brought him the luck he needed during the event, even though he didn’t wear it while operating the Liebherr 1220-5.2 all-terrain crane because it impeded his vision.<\/p>\n
“I wore it before the championship, but not inside the cab,” Bowyer told Modern Materials Handling<\/a>. “I didn’t want anything impeding my vision, even if it did bring me luck. I’m very passionate about this industry. Crane operators have a lot of responsibility and professionalism. The rodeo competition is just one way of drawing attention to a growing field.”<\/p>\n In addition to an inscribed belt buckle that declares him the rodeo champion, Bowyer also was presented with a check for $2,000 and a miniature model of the crane he drove while winning the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ken Bowyer, a crane operator for ALL Crane Rental of Florida, based in Tampa, has been named champion of the 2014 National Crane Rodeo. The event was held during the ConExpo\/CONAGG 2014 trade show in Las Vegas. Bowyer said his favorite Stetson cowboy hat brought him the luck he needed during the event, even though … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12673,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/12673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}