Was AP there cheering the crane on?

How do the cranes get built so high in the first place ?

Do they lay them on the ground and pull them upright with ropes and lots of burly men in vests ?

Not grass-roots enough.

And today's link-to-something-in-the-background of the photo is West Riding House. My very first job was on the 17th floor of that building. My first day was 30/8/88.

Don't you mean Burley men in vests?

If only you'd started 22 days earlier...

wouldny he have to be Chinese......

At least you got to take a couple of months off in the summer - I left school on a Friday in July and started work on the Monday and with no accrued holidays (not even my missing school holidays which strangely didn't count) I worked right through for a full year before taking a day off.

Of course, those were hard times, dun't know their born now...

Well, I've seen tower cranes being built by using mobile extending cranes on the ground but you couldn't do that with this kind of height.

I reckon that what you need to do is build a tower crane as normal.
Then when the building nearly as high as the crane, you use that crane to lift an extending crane on top of the building.
Then use that extending crane to build the tower crane even higher.

I'm a genius, me.
I could have got those planks across the gym in the Army Officers' initiative tests, easy.

Thats genius that is, you see someone like me isn't capable of thinking like that.





(and now the Columbo moment...)


Just one more thing though sir...

How do they dismantle the big tower crane when the buildings finished ?

That's where the lateral thinking comes in.
You don't dismantle it.
This is Leeds, so you'll obviously need to knock the building down in a few years time.
The crane will come in handy for that.




I'm wasted in this job.



I'm wasted most weekends as well.