How to build a crane

ToastyKen · 03-21-2002, 05:27 AM

So there's been a lot of construction around my college recently, and I saw all these cranes. Big ass cranes. I mean, these things are, like, 20 stories tall or something, you know? It's really quite cool how tall these things are close up. And I thought: Gee, I wonder how they build a crane? I mean, what are they going to do? Use another crane? Preposterous, right? I mean, how would they... Well, you get the gist.

So then I saw this.

Take particular note of the crane segment still lying on the ground. (Note that the horizontal white thing is just the reflection of a flourescent light. Sorry for the bad positioning; I'm a total amateur.) They really are using an extendable, mobile crane in order to build this (presumably more heavy-duty) stationary crane.

Anyway, there's some wild meta-ness for you. :)

03-21-2002, 05:27 AM	#1
ToastyKen Profitable Prophet Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 30	How to build a crane So there's been a lot of construction around my college recently, and I saw all these cranes. Big ass cranes. I mean, these things are, like, 20 stories tall or something, you know? It's really quite cool how tall these things are close up. And I thought: Gee, I wonder how they build a crane? I mean, what are they going to do? Use another crane? Preposterous, right? I mean, how would they... Well, you get the gist. So then I saw this. Take particular note of the crane segment still lying on the ground. (Note that the horizontal white thing is just the reflection of a flourescent light. Sorry for the bad positioning; I'm a total amateur.) They really are using an extendable, mobile crane in order to build this (presumably more heavy-duty) stationary crane. Anyway, there's some wild meta-ness for you. :) __________________ http://subjunctive.net/

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