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.
Construction magic
Submitted 1 day ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
coriza@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 hours ago
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Ia! Nyar-Cr’anethotep! The dark mother of a thousand girders!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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87Six@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’m struggling so hard not to be ragebaited by this
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
honestly I wasn’t even trying to ragebait you I was just spitting facts bro like trust
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
RAAAAAWWWWWRRRRR!!!¡
organ@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
How do they even build a crane without a crane? SMH
expatriado@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
the crane lifts itself by its bootstraps
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
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.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Can’t let these cranes think they’re owed a handout.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
They’ll need a crane! They’ll need a crane!
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
It’s cranes all the way down
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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 :)
Sabata11792@ani.social 21 hours ago
Fuck. I shouldn’t have rolled a hardcore character.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
So what’s it look inside?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
crozilla@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I think that author name might be fake.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Seems legit to me.
crozilla@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I stand corrected.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Actually a good question they’re fucking massive
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
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. wsatlaw.com/manhattan-crane-accident-new-safety-r…
There are new procedures now after that investigation.
bjorn@fedia.io 16 hours ago
@The_Picard_Maneuver This would be a very good read for me; I've always wondered that as a kid.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.”
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, I was just gonna say it’s a kind of magic they call Being Up Early in the Morning. An mysterious skill to many including myself. 😅
Denvil@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
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.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
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.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Ironworkers.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 hours ago
Spider-Man also has this power.
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 22 hours ago
I swear to god, if this is not an real book I will be very angry…
And gonna post about how angry I am!!!
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
… I need to get to a patent office
Gork@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Why does that book look like a chocolate bar
saimen@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I was asking myself this as there were several construction sites in my area with cranes appearing and disappearing all the time until I did catch them!
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Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.