How to build a crane

[ToastyKen]

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. :)