Construction magic

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.

Can't let these cranes think they're owed a handout.

There's always a bigger crane

Yeah a lot of late starts early mornings etc.

They're also made to go together so with a good crew you can really smash them together in no time

Not who you were replying to, but I've worked in the industry...

Kinda, yeah. They want them set up super early in the mornings on site so they can get to work.

Also, lots of them move from site to site directly without returning to the yard. Some of the bigger tower cranes are booked years in advance, so there's really only down time if a job finishes early.

ha! you really thought he would tell you

I can't tell you if I did I would have to kill you.

Nah just lots of trucks often another mobile crane and some good organisation skills.

Along with pins and sledgehammers

draw a circle of transmission fluid where you want the crane and chant CORANON SILARIA OZOO MAHOKE

Presumably they bring someone in to make sure its correct?

I like to think of then as the big boys cranes.

That's a 320tonne Sany lifting a piling module. I took that photo while standing on a 450tone one on a barge the other day

Some you don't even need that, they're self constructing.

https://youtu.be/vx5Qt7_ECEE

But then who cranes the bigger crane?

I stand corrected.

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.

Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off

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.

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.

honestly I wasn't even trying to ragebait you I was just spitting facts bro like trust

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