Submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to [deleted]
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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 :)
Fuck. I shouldn’t have rolled a hardcore character.
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!
You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.
Some you don’t even need that, they’re self constructing.
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
Ah yes, the crane crane
I think that author name might be fake.
Seems legit to me.
I stand corrected.
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
Actually a good question they’re fucking massive
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.
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.
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
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.
Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.
So what’s it look inside?
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.
Controls are remarkably simple. Notably I don’t even see any screen at all, if that’s a modern one I would’ve imagined some kind of display showing alternative camera angles to help them aim, maybe indicators of position, height, angle etc etc.
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.
Ia! Nyar-Cr’anethotep! The dark mother of a thousand girders!
You just activated my trape card, OSHA INSPECTOR!
Friend of mine pulled a trap card on an OSHA inspector on site once. It was glorious
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.
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.”
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. 😅
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.
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.
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I’m struggling so hard not to be ragebaited by this
honestly I wasn’t even trying to ragebait you I was just spitting facts bro like trust
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@The_Picard_Maneuver This would be a very good read for me; I've always wondered that as a kid.
Ironworkers.
Ask Liebherr!
Spider-Man also has this power.
I swear to god, if this is not an real book I will be very angry…
And gonna post about how angry I am!!!
… I need to get to a patent office
Why does that book look like a chocolate bar
organ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the crane lifts itself by its bootstraps
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
Can’t let these cranes think they’re owed a handout.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
First, they build a bigger crane
SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 months ago
There’s always a bigger crane
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They’ll need a crane! They’ll need a crane!
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s cranes all the way down