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Indeed! They still do not seem to have a street closure permit from the City so ....Looking out the window for the flying pigs and showers of beer.
Indeed! They still do not seem to have a street closure permit from the City so ....Looking out the window for the flying pigs and showers of beer.
Crane is starting to come down. Remarkable how it removes it's own sections. From what I can tell, they build a collar around the crane sections, it slides, and supports the load normally held by each section temporarily as they slide the section out. Then the crane, with the temporary collar forming part of the structure, lowers the section. Then the temporary collar slides down to the next section. At least that' show it looks.
Deary me, the crane has literally been up long enough for some of us to develop nostalgia.Gonna miss that crane.
I don't like the Toronto of 2016
It's not like the building will be without a crane. You have the derrick now and, in ten years, the building maintenance unit crane will be installed.
While that's often the case, in this case, that's not how it's planned to happen. After this derrick installs the building maintenance unit, the BMU will be strong enough to lower the disassembled derrick to the ground piece by piece.A series of gradually smaller cranes will be used until the last one can be carried into the elevator by a worker.