@[email protected] This would be a very good read for me; I’ve always wondered that as a kid.
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
Spider-Man also has this power.
… I need to get to a patent office
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They’ll need a crane! They’ll need a crane!
First, they build a bigger crane
There’s always a bigger crane
This reference is older than some of the community members.
When 900 years old you reach, outdated references you will use
That’s a good one. Solid, unlike the character you’re quoting.
the crane lifts itself by its bootstraps
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.
Grady?
No, he didn’t build a model in his garage
How do they get it down once the building is built around them?
Put it into noclip mode and go through the building.
Ctrl+Z
Can’t let these cranes think they’re owed a handout.
It’s cranes all the way down
Ask Liebherr!
I think that author name might be fake.
Seems legit to me.
I stand corrected.
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
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
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.
Ironworkers.
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
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.
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.
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
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!
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.
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
Some you don’t even need that, they’re self constructing.
And it takes them two winters to fill a toddler sized pothole in front of my flat. /Boomerrant/
Graffiti it with a dick, it legit seems to get things done.
Ah yes, the crane crane
