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... those big cranes they use to erect large buildings. What puts the crane up? A bigger crane? I know millions of builders congregate around forums like this, so I wonder if one could answer this for me as I'm too lazy/disinterested really to google it.

I've often wondered how they get the counterweights up there...

I asked this of someone a few years ago, and they told me the answer. Sadly I've forgotten. Hope this helps!

God puts them there.

That's a good question. We have a big building like that being built over the road from our office at the moment but I didn't see them put the central fixed crane up, sadly. I guess it has be a big mobile crane.

I have been told though that once the building is finished, they often leave the crane's scaffolding in place as there is little point in pulling it out of the core of the building. Also, apparantly they sometimes turn the void left behind from the big crane into a lift shaft.

It was always there.

I can go one better than cranes:

While aimlessly wandering about looking for something to eat, I saw semaphore signallers practising outside St. Georges Hall in Liverpool.

Imagine over a dozen workmen suspended by cables a hundred feet above the ground while signalling semaphore.

I'm glad I had my camera.

i used to work on these cranes. they put themselves up.

Gah! That just raises further questions!

I'd always assumed that they use those mobile ones with the super long extendable arms to put the stationary cranes up.

further questions?
the lorry that delivers the parts has a small crane that can build the first section which is fixed to the ground. the lorry then builds the mast and cabin onto the first section, and large, er, hydraulique pushers (?) lift the cabin and mast and so you can lift another section of tower underneath. the new section is bolted into place (this was my job!) and the pushers are fixed to that so the cabin can lift up again. the only thing stopping you from continue forever is the tower will always lean to one side.

So it's sort of jacked up to have a new vertical section slotted in?

indeed, and then fixed to the new section.

I'm just impressed that on the day Dimrill asks this, we have a new French engineer (or something) join who is qualified to answer.
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is your mother joining?

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your father is joining?

-e- i will stop now but truely there is nothing shocking about my knowledge. i didn't realise it was a mystery.

It's not, your knowledge is mediocre and dull

The people on this forum tend to work in IT, or music, or are a student. Or do some other job that is just sitting at a desk all day, bashing at a keyboard. Very different from crane construction! It is very funny timing.

I have to sometimes crane my neck to look at a board on the wall - does that count?

You ARE Super Fun!

Can we keep him? *claps hands*

i no longer work in crane construction, and sometimes i miss working outside. i work for a design agency in london now.
i found here because my surname is beteo

That's amazing. Now we just need Arnold Beex to join and everything is perfect.

That is excellent. Probably one of the last ways I'd have thought someone would find this place, too.

You're going to fit in well around here!

Calling me names or otherwise insulting me within your first ten posts IS a fairly standard rite of passage here. Fortunately, my Mum is a cock-crazed whore* though, so that's fine. I'm not planning to get revenge or anything *makes note: BETEO is surname, examine design agencies in London, send assassins*

* for all you know

i am freelance
i do most of my work for one agency, but i do not think i am on their website.

Even bad men love their mommas.

Good boys love their commas, though.

If there's a God, your first name can be shortened to "Sub" or "Sue".

I see*, what you did there!

* with my eyes

Excellent, somebody else who does the "I told him, with my mouth," and "I heard him say, with my ears," thing who isn't me or my non-Beteo friends.

Or did we all pick it up from some 90's TV show like Lee & Herring or something? I always thought we were being original.

It was a favourite saying of Kevin Eldon's character in Lee & Herring (Simon Quinlag, or something).

"I lied, with my mouth!"



"...and drink your weak lemon drink... ... ... ... ... NOW! NOW! DRINK IT NOW!"

Yes, it was Quinlank now that I come to remember where I used to use it from.

It could well be. I often use "Explain using words" when someone confuses me.

I concur with the Quinlank origin hypothesis.

Seems almost certainly the origin. Me and my mates seem to use a slightly different emphasis, however - as if simply a casual narrator.

Good spot.

Maybe he loves his mother in a different way?

Also as an avid tmwrnj fan I approve of this thread title greatly.

Stu/Stew

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You must tell us more about the ups and downs of crane construction.

It's just like my dreams... except they're alive, not eviscerated, and not hanging by the neck from their own entrails...

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kalmar! I missed you.

And hey, it had to be posted eventually. I have no idea what is up with the slideshow, guy.

I'm not your guy, buddy!

I'm not your buddy, guy!

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