One big crane.
Over the course of the bank holiday weekend where I work at
Diamond Light Source a huge crane appeared to remove and replace some air blast
coolers. The crane was needed to span the building which is round and to be
able to span the lift area. It arrived on Friday and work began assembling the
crane. By the time I went home around lunchtime it had changed considerably so
I decided to pop back for some photo’s later only to find the crane in the
final stages of assembly. I would come back in the morning but plans usually go
astray and I went off with my wife to Newbury forgetting about the crane but
passed one of the coolers being taken away on a truck. I remembered on the way back, not hard as it
towered above Diamond so after going home and a quick cuppa I went back and got
a few photos of the crane at work. I wanted to ask if I could get some of the
crane from the work area but the guys left and seem to go off to lunch. I think
they had hit a problem as the crane was dismantled the next day and left. Here
are some of the photos of the crane I took.
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| The Air Blast Coolers to be removed. |
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| The Crane |
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| The load spreaders. |
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| Crane head on |
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| The legs on the spreaders |
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| A second crane |
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At this point it got interesting with a second crane lifting sections onto the end of the first crane.
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| Lifting on the sections |
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| Taking shape |
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| Getting longer |
At this point I wondered how it would lift all that lot off the deck.
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| Disappearing away |
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| Going on for ever. |
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| The end of the crane. |
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I left at this point to come back the next day
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| Now thats a crane |
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| One bit of the crane |
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| The whole thing |
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| Lunch time |
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| Thats it for now. |
The next day the crane was dismantled and will return at a later date
