Upending Frames are used to upend very long piles for offshore foundations. The tilting mechanism makes it easy to bring the Pile Upending Frame back to horizontal after a pile has been lifted away vertically.
Bright Engineering designed the tilting mechanism for the existing IHC 600t Pile Upending Frames while making only small modifications to the existing structure.
The tilting mechanism is shown in yellow in the CAD pictures. It is driven by one hydraulic cylinder. The new tilting mechanism provides massive time savings during offshore operations.