caltrane74
Senior Member
This is getting sweet!
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bar1967
Active Member
I don't think that is how this type of crane gets raised. The whole crane raises up, they are not just adding sections to it. The base rises with the tower.
spaced
Active Member
I sort of know what you mean but can't quite visualize it. Do you have anything to illustrate the process?
jaborandi
Active Member
Thanks casaguy!! Shocks and I were discussing this very issue as we walked by the Casa site recently. I have pondered this crane raising mystery for decades and came to the conclusion that they used magic. I am hoping to see a good raising at Casa
Edward
Senior Member
There are jacks at the base of the crane that they use to push the crane up. No additional crane pieces will be used. As the crane goes up they fill in the hole where the crane was with concrete. Once the building is done they use the crane to bring up a smaller crane that takes the main one down to the street. They continue like this until they have a crane small enough to go down the elevator in pieces.
paul451
New Member
Thanks alot, you just solved years of me pondering how they increased the size of these huge cranes.
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
I think it was implicit in what Edward said, but to be pedantic, it can be a multi-stage process, where the big crane brings up a smaller crane, which disassembles and lowers the big one, and then hauls up a SMALLER crane, which takes it apart, and so on, and so on.
Also, I'm told that the smaller cranes aren't actually cranes, but derricks. I'm not entirely sure what the distinction is. Can someone illuminate me?
Also, I'm told that the smaller cranes aren't actually cranes, but derricks. I'm not entirely sure what the distinction is. Can someone illuminate me?
khris
Senior Member
Oooh who's Derek? 
caltrane74
Senior Member
looks like that guy from Trailer Park Boys, but....
he could also be that guy from "My Name is Earl"
A country bumpkin type for sure. ( a playmate for that guy in your avatar phunky?)
he could also be that guy from "My Name is Earl"
A country bumpkin type for sure. ( a playmate for that guy in your avatar phunky?
)adma
Superstar
Anyone for Dominos?
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Hydrogen
Guest
Pizza? No thanks.
Hold on, gotta check what this thread is about...
Hold on, gotta check what this thread is about...
Bogtrotter
Senior Member
If someone farted this building out in Chicago overnigt- nobody would notice. However, it does have possibilities in Toronto- those LED lights seem to be a sexy night-time alter ego to its dull design.
smuncky
Senior Member
Filip
Senior Member
Zing!