[alklay]

I just walked past the site and saw no pieces for a second crane.

 

[maestro]

But the one already assembled on site will rise 700 feet, right? If a second crane goes up, it's purpose is just to speed up the process, not because it is absolutely required. ( again speculation on my part)

to clarify ... if the current tower crane is good enough then why do they continue to use a mobile crane as well

 

[3Dementia]

I always try to offer articulate, thoughtful posts (12 years in literacy), so hopefully these thoughts will address the crane issue.

Go to this site. It is being serviced by the biggest/thickest (yah baby) crane I've ever seen in this country.

Maybe this will be enough.

 

[caltrane74]

to clarify ... if the current tower crane is good enough then why do they continue to use a mobile crane as well

Like SNF was making fun of me a moment ago about why I need to know where the second crane will go, when I look at the site and see the forms which have been built. I don't see where an additional tower crane will go. Unless of course, another set of forms is built at the other end of the site and a crane dropped in there.

The Temporary crane is currently parked on Adelaide, and quite some distance from where the actual tower portion of the building is proceeding. So we can speculate to what role it is currently playing in the construction process.

 

[indense]

No, the stump was only up 4 stories or so when constuction halted. They'd never begun erecting steel. The two cranes were taken out of the stump in the fall of 1993.

Thanks AP.

 

[caltrane74]

I always try to offer articulate, thoughtful posts (12 years in literacy), so hopefully these thoughts will address the crane issue.

Go to this site. It is being serviced by the biggest/thickest (yah baby) crane I've ever seen in this country.

Maybe this will be enough.

That's what I'm thinking likewise!

 

[maestro]

Go to this site. It is being serviced by the biggest/thickest (yah baby) crane I've ever seen in this country.

cross the border and you'll see many steel-framed skyscrapers have two of these bad boys (its still a tight site to store steel while the one crane fiddles pieces into places)

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[Filip]

Seems on centre.. So one crane it is.

 

[caltrane74]

that post ends the second crane discussion.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Seems on centre.. So one crane it is.

The second crane can go in the other elevator area, south of the current one.

 

[caltrane74]

hmm...

 

[maestro]

^it would work

 

[caltrane74]

yup, it could work. (I see now)

...however.

that second crane would need to get on site relatively quickly, considering the concrete is being poured for the shaft as we speak...........

This project will rise fast!!

 

[adma]

Re these rumours of a second crane, is there a grassy knoll at Cloud Gardens?