How does a crane grow? If you're the right type of self-climbing crane, you can grow yourself by hoisting new mast sections (I'm stretching it by calling it a neck in the title above) onto a platform attached to your climbing frame. In this image, taken on a foggy early March day by UrbanToronto Forum contributor wmedia, one new section has already been hoisted onto the climbing frame's platform. The frame, holding the weight of everything above it, will push up on the mast below, creating the space to slide the section into place...

...and then the next section, already hoisted, will find a space open on the platform for it. 

Crane-raising at Pinnacle One Yonge, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor wmedia

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