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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

So nobody has corrected "big-ass cranes" to "big ass-cranes" yet? I guess I'll do it then.

https://xkcd.com/37/

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You just activated my trape card, OSHA INSPECTOR!

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Friend of mine pulled a trap card on an OSHA inspector on site once. It was glorious

[–] saimen@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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!

[–] kopasu22@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Ah yes, the crane crane

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Some you don't even need that, they're self constructing.

https://youtu.be/vx5Qt7_ECEE

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

And it takes them two winters to fill a toddler sized pothole in front of my flat. /Boomerrant/

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Graffiti it with a dick, it legit seems to get things done.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] coriza@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You weren't supposed to see that.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Ask Liebherr!

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Ia! Nyar-Cr'anethotep! The dark mother of a thousand girders!

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.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm struggling so hard not to be ragebaited by this

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

honestly I wasn't even trying to ragebait you I was just spitting facts bro like trust

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

speed is crazy

you're definitely not 18+

I can say that cause I'm not 18+ either

jk I'm 25 yrs old

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[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 :)

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So what's it look like inside it?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago

Or maybe it's just out of frame at the top, now I see it again.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Probably. And you could definitely kill others.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 32 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

draw a circle of transmission fluid where you want the crane and chant CORANON SILARIA OZOO MAHOKE

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

what no you turn back into creative and either build a crane cause you can double jump to fly or you can download a mod for the crane and just spawn one

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And do NOT chant MAGOKE.

Seriously. Unless you want to irradiate 30 city blocks.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ha! you really thought he would tell you

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Put myself outta a job haha

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

crawler cranes...? like baby cranes? how cute

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

I like to think of then as the big boys cranes.

That's a 320tonne Sany lifting a piling module. I took that photo while standing on a 450tone one on a barge the other day

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?

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