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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When 900 years old you reach, outdated references you will use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.
It’s cranes all the way down
They’ll need a crane! They’ll need a crane!
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 :)
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?
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
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.
…but how?
ha! you really thought he would tell you
Put myself outta a job haha
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
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.
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
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
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
I think that author name might be fake.
Seems legit to me.
I stand corrected.
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!
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 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
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
So what’s it look like inside it?
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.
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.
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.
Actually a good question they’re fucking massive
They come one section at a time by truck, and the crane cab climbs each section as they are hoisted up by the last section.
The most dangerous time for cranes is the time between hoisting and bolting the next section on (or the reverse during disassembly).
One fell in Manhattan a couple years ago during disassembly. https://www.wsatlaw.com/manhattan-crane-accident-new-safety-rules-2025/
There are new procedures now after that investigation.
Ask Liebherr!
People confused that construction workers does most of their work when you are asleep.
“How does the bread get made fresh every morning? Magic, i tell you.”
Yeah, I was just gonna say it’s a kind of magic they call Being Up Early in the Morning. A mysterious skill to many including myself. 😅
I worked construction and my hours were 6 am to 3:30 pm. I’m sure others do it differently, but in my eyes it’d be pure madness to work night shift in construction. It’s already bad enough having to deal with working on something after your coworkers and thinking “damn why did they do it this way” I can’t imagine splitting the job between two foremen too. It’d be chaos. Only reason I think it might be done would be if a project REALLY needs done quick, and it’s not a very big building, so you can’t just put more people on the same job. So you’d have to have people on it 24/7 to try and get it done asap.
Big, efficient companies work 24 hour jobs by having 3-4 overlapping shifts with usually at least two general foremen, often more, and a team of PMs. Skilled planners and foremen can manage the jobs, and overlapping shifts helps with continuity instead of a whistle blowing and everyone on site tags out like a wrestling match.
These are the companies that get the biggest and most expensive contracts. They have all the equipment, they can hire the number of people they need, and they have the experience. They do massive jobs that destabilize entire areas while the work is being done and the customer/city/municipality/government is willing to pay to get it done ASAP because letting the disruption last 2-3x longer is worse than the price tag.
Some places with harsh winters and short construction seasons also habitually work 24 hours.
It really depends on what you’re doing and where you are. In general, small to medium sized GCs and companies for single builds will not work 24 hours. Once you start getting to big projects within an urban area or major road construction, that kind of thing, it can change.
I will say that it’s MUCH better to do construction in natural daylight, full stop. No amount of flood lighting gives you the amount of visual acuity as the sun does for something like construction. We generally always planned to leave easier work for night shifts, not because they sucked, but because it’s just harder in most ways. More dangerous, colder, your best paid people don’t generally want to work those shifts, businesses are closed so you’ve got to deal with on call POCs which slows stuff down if there’s problems… Yeah.
