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!
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You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
It's cranes, all the way up!
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
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So nobody has corrected "big-ass cranes" to "big ass-cranes" yet? I guess I'll do it then.
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
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 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.
You weren't supposed to see that.
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
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.
isn't it obvious???
They switch to creative mode and build the crane cause now they can fly. or if they have the right mod pack then they can just spawn one. We common folk don't have the authority to switch to creative
that's why I want to be a construction worker when I grow up :)
Fuck. I shouldn't have rolled a hardcore character.
Hey this is what I do for a job.
Less so tower cranes more so crawler cranes but I've done jt for 15 years.
Construction workers don't do the job they hire in people like me who specialise in this
Worked across the street from an outfit like yours for 5 years. Never saw a crane coming or going, hell, never seen one being assembled. Y'all sneak out in the middle of the night, right?
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.
.........but how?
ha! you really thought he would tell you
Put myself outta a job haha
draw a circle of transmission fluid where you want the crane and chant CORANON SILARIA OZOO MAHOKE
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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
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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.
So what's it look like inside it?
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.
Probably. And you could definitely kill others.
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.
Or maybe it's just out of frame at the top, now I see it again.
Ask Liebherr!
I think that author name might be fake.
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
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