[although I enjoyed compiling it ;-D]I'm working near a building site, and they're putting up one of those steel framed buildings.
Key to all this are cranes - mobile, self-propelled cranes - normally, they're the ones you seen driving around your Town Centre.
However, every so often, you come across a real monster.
One that needs a smaller crane just to hang the weights on the back.
One with 7 or 8 axles.
One that puts up the tower cranes - maybe one with cantilevers or a lattice frame on the end, to give extra distance & height
I'm strangely fascinated by them, and I rue the demise of Jim'll Fix it -- which might have given me the chance to drive one -- to take a day out going to site, setting it up, extending the pneumatic legs, lots of shouting, laying the cargo down where it's needed... [hopefully!]
Perhaps there could be a Diggerland for cranes?
I've found some really fantastic links:
- Liebherr Mobile cranes
- Liebherr Tracked crane with whopping capacity
- Liebherr monster self-propelled crane - 1200 metric tonnes
- You can even buy die-cast models, but they seem a little pricey at €451!
Maybe it's because as a child I had a yellow dinky toy of a Coles Crane, which actually had a hook and string...
I've also come across a further Liebherr link, which reminds me of tower crane crawling itself up the old Britannic House just off Moorgate [not that tropical view below] - a geet red thing with a self-assembling block below it.
This block got the pieces lifted into it by the crane itself, then jacked itself up from the new bit to create the next space - true self-assembly, and pretty impressive!
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