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So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
You just activated my trape card, OSHA INSPECTOR!
Friend of mine pulled a trap card on an OSHA inspector on site once. It was glorious
I was asking myself this as there were several construction sites in my area with cranes appearing and disappearing all the time until I did catch them!
Ah yes, the crane crane
You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
Some you don’t even need that, they’re self constructing.
And it takes them two winters to fill a toddler sized pothole in front of my flat. /Boomerrant/
Graffiti it with a dick, it legit seems to get things done.
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Ribbon cutting ceremony? Groundbreaking ceremony?
All rituals to please the eldritch crane God, so that a suitable avatar can be summoned to the material world. Praise be.
Ia! Nyar-Cr’anethotep! The dark mother of a thousand girders!
I mean I literally saw one being taken down when we were in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Went past a construction site it was up. Couple hours later when going back from lunch it was half taken down.
So, what you are saying is that you didn’t see them being summoned, just that the despawn takes a couple of hours. That makes sense otherwise it would be too op.
Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
Ask Liebherr!
not sure if it’s an urban myth.
not the story goes that when building the Sagrada Familia, they had no idea how to remove the crane they put in the middle. so they offered that crane for free to anyone who could get it out.
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the crane lifts itself by its bootstraps
This is actually somewhat true. There’s a mechanism at the top of the crane that lifts the cab and arm above the top truss and then the crane lifts a new truss to the top and works install it and lock it in place. The process repeats until the crane is the required height.
Grady?
No, he didn’t build a model in his garage
I should have known.
How do they get it down once the building is built around them?
Ctrl+Z
Put it into noclip mode and go through the building.
Can’t let these cranes think they’re owed a handout.
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First, they build a bigger crane
There’s always a bigger crane
This reference is older than some of the community members.
When 900 years old you reach, outdated references you will use
That’s a good one. Solid, unlike the character you’re quoting.
Though still apparently solid enough to be an example of how disney sucks at writing.
They’ll need a crane! They’ll need a crane!
It’s cranes all the way down
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I’m struggling so hard not to be ragebaited by this
honestly I wasn’t even trying to ragebait you I was just spitting facts bro like trust
speed is crazy
you’re definitely not 18+
I can say that cause I’m not 18+ either
jk I’m 25 yrs old
RAAAAAWWWWWRRRRR!!!¡
isn’t it obvious???
They switch to creative mode and build the crane cause now they can fly. or if they have the right mod pack then they can just spawn one. We common folk don’t have the authority to switch to creative
that’s why I want to be a construction worker when I grow up :)
Fuck. I shouldn’t have rolled a hardcore character.
So what’s it look like inside it?
Controls are remarkably simple. Notably I don’t even see any screen at all, if that’s a modern one I would’ve imagined some kind of display showing alternative camera angles to help them aim, maybe indicators of position, height, angle etc etc.
Or maybe it’s just out of frame at the top, now I see it again.
Love it, is there a possibility I could cause my own death by moving those joysticks wrong? Because I really need that in a job setting.
Probably. And you could definitely kill others.
Hey this is what I do for a job.
Less so tower cranes more so crawler cranes but I’ve done jt for 15 years.
Construction workers don’t do the job they hire in people like me who specialise in this
Worked across the street from an outfit like yours for 5 years. Never saw a crane coming or going, hell, never seen one being assembled. Y’all sneak out in the middle of the night, right?
Not who you were replying to, but I’ve worked in the industry…
Kinda, yeah. They want them set up super early in the mornings on site so they can get to work.
Also, lots of them move from site to site directly without returning to the yard. Some of the bigger tower cranes are booked years in advance, so there’s really only down time if a job finishes early.
Yeah a lot of late starts early mornings etc.
They’re also made to go together so with a good crew you can really smash them together in no time
…but how?
draw a circle of transmission fluid where you want the crane and chant CORANON SILARIA OZOO MAHOKE
what no you turn back into creative and either build a crane cause you can double jump to fly or you can download a mod for the crane and just spawn one
And do NOT chant MAGOKE.
Seriously. Unless you want to irradiate 30 city blocks.
I can’t tell you if I did I would have to kill you.
Nah just lots of trucks often another mobile crane and some good organisation skills.
Along with pins and sledgehammers
ha! you really thought he would tell you
Put myself outta a job haha
crawler cranes…? like baby cranes? how cute
I like to think of then as the big boys cranes.
That’s a 320tonne Sany lifting a piling module. I took that photo while standing on a 450tone one on a barge the other day
Unless you’re an ironworker, I’ve built many a crawler crane from LTR-1220’s to LR11000’s.
Presumably they bring someone in to make sure its correct?
Yeah, the crane company/rental service will inspect it. Maxim, Barnhart, Bay Crane, those types. Sometimes they’ll assemble it but not always. Even those inspections will fail sometimes. We had a guy miss one side of a connector on a pendant bar and the inspector signed off on it- the connection snapped and the boom was only being supported by one pendant line leaving the boom hanging at a 45 degree angle.
Damn that’s a big fuck up, rule one is take all your shit down with you and make sure you have. Rule two is make sure all the pins are in and retained. Everything else is optional really haha
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
I think that author name might be fake.
Seems legit to me.
I stand corrected.
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
