How to build a crane: step 1: get a crane step 2: use the crane to build a crane

So let me get this straight It takes a crane to build a crane??? 1.1k likes... and everyone in the comments is a crane engineer????

@mfx1

6 жыл бұрын

They used to self erect (still do sometimes) but using a mobile crane to do it is quicker/cheaper. The reason for not just using mobile cranes in the first place is that they have a bigger footprint and are more expensive to have on site for extended periods.

@KranWien

6 жыл бұрын

nice

@pjsmith6954

6 жыл бұрын

it's cranes all the way down

@epistte

6 жыл бұрын

Most cranes, mobile hydraulic and crawler often use a 150-ton mobile crane to erect them because of the counterweights and boom sections.

@dustinthomas7973

6 жыл бұрын

epistte technically hydraulic and crawler cranes are both forms of mobile cranes. The crane used to assemble this Tower was . 500 to 600tons

The construction parts were interesting, but the paperwork parts were scintillating.

@khaleelr5995

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what scintillating means?

@mklik4

4 жыл бұрын

@@khaleelr5995 He must be a paper nerd

@pk2702pk

4 жыл бұрын

I think he was been sarcastic.

@danelillo

2 жыл бұрын

Nah... Give me all the paperwork that's needed before start working. At least You know, things have been dealt with apropiately

Warning: You cannot watch this video until you fill out the proper paperwork first.

@gowdsake7103

4 жыл бұрын

In triplicate with a hard hat !

@pixelmayhem1143

4 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, I crept in through the back door and watched the Video without filling in any paperwork... Mwahahahahahhaha!

@judefernandez827

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Strader and you must wear a hard hat while watching it .

@throughput6674

4 жыл бұрын

Now I have a paper cut. So I will be off work until that heals. Your process caused me harm. I'm gonna sue the pants off ya. P.S. Please don't remove your pants

@rasimkasyanov6146

4 жыл бұрын

@@throughput6674 depends who is wearing them !

Amazing. I always wondered how they constructed them. Great photography, really clear explanation. Great stuff.

wow even mentioned the document, this is the most detailed clip i had ever seen

Thank you for the very detailed video. Always wondered how the base of a crane is built

@chance6298

5 жыл бұрын

I had NO idea it started off like it does... I thought it was magic!!

@johnchambers2996

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting because it looked as if they didn't show the piles being driven and they didn't show any anchors bolting the derrick base footings to the piles; it looked as if they were just depending on the shear strength of the footing concrete to prevent pullout.

@judefernandez827

4 жыл бұрын

Gianni P what happens to the base when the crane is dismantled .

@stargazer2504

4 жыл бұрын

I believe they just leave it there. It gets covered by.... something- maybe the parking lot. It just lives there forever.

I absolutely love this video. I've always wondered how one of these cranes are erected, now I know. I find this type of crane, and ones used a shipping ports so fascinating. I'd love to be a crane operator also. However, I'm fully retired now and dont work at all , and too old to change professions. However, I am an electrical engineer that just started designing things based on the Arduino micro-controller. This little computer can control stepper motors controlled by a joystick. I plan on making a scale model of both types of cranes, maybe 5 to 8 foot tall, then have the steppers move whatever moves, under my control with the joystick. I plan on putting in a colored camera for the view as if I am at the top as the operator. All needs to be functionally equivalent to the real thing. Then on the ground little model shipping containers, and other objects. This all will be the ultimate virtual reality game, even better than any computer based virtual reality game! As a kid I was always a huge fan of cranes, so awesome. I would spend hours just sitting there watching them. I even had permission from the port to go to the dock and be able to watch in person, and really close. I just wonder now why I didn't become a crane operator. I guess we really cant always tell what life is going to throw at us! Anyhow, I will be doing these two projects. I may be old, but I still love toys... and if the dog gets too close, I will lift him up and move him also... I like to pick up things and put them back down, as Arnold said on Saturday Night Live... but not the body building thing! Once I do the projects I will do a video and post it here. I'm gathering up all supplies I need to do them with...

@tedmac8049

2 жыл бұрын

Aye, good luck wid dat mate.

@stevenlopez5152

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is right except the beginning they have to make sure the base of the crane is level down to the last 16th of an inch or else in the cabin of the crane it will lean a bit I learned this on my second crane and it gets annoying the higher they work because the more jeans which isn’t scary its just just a pain climbing it sometimes

There are also self climbers. These are towers with a special base to the cab. The cab climbs one frame at a time and the tower lifts another section in and it is secured. Then the tower climbs the newly added frame. This is how they erect cranes beyond the reach of a land based mobile crane.

@gregparrott

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information. I can't quite visualize how a cab can detach itself, get out of the way enough to add a section, and then climb atop a new section. If by chance you see a video showing a 'self climber', please post it.

@Sunshineleroy

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregparrott www.google.com/search?q=self+climber+tower+crane&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=LvnEdzm2QvWQzM%253A%252CyaeHneE-oaAPpM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kQUjqkJon99sr-_-LU6iGlMH-zycQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp2K2xodPfAhVLIzQIHWbDB0AQ9QEwEXoECAMQBA#imgrc=1yzOQg97e6BstM:

@Sunshineleroy

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/poSW0amKmpe5e7w.html

@gregparrott

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reply! I've never seen this, but probably just failed to see one during assembly.

@test1test219

5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic insight!

Me: I really have to go to bed KZread: y’all ever wonder how they build those cranes you see in cities?? My brain: you have to know, click it

@jasonvangeuns9062

4 жыл бұрын

Ha yip

Whoa the level of detail here and footage quality is just fantastic. Thank you for the content.

This is the question I would randomly ask my dad and now I finally get an answer

Such detail in the script...wonderful!

3:38 Let us have a moment of silence for all who sacrificed themselves to make this crane...

@ankysid8022

4 жыл бұрын

Most underrated comment I've seen

@030banana

4 жыл бұрын

wellll i guess it is just the job nature of steel fixer (as long as it is safe).... and they are paid for it (the high salary could justisfy the hardship) yet, i saw some fixing rebar in a much worse environmonet

@ankysid8022

4 жыл бұрын

@@030bananaHe was joking,as if the person fixing the rebar was buried with the concrete as he couldn't get out .Since we was fixing the rebar from the inside.

@frzzzdtm

2 жыл бұрын

well this is a normal story in every building in my country 😂 I don't believe it tho

@isaiahwolftail867

2 жыл бұрын

it takes one human sacrifice per crane

Fantastic video! Cheers to all who participated in the decision to make and produce such a high quality and detailed video. The only thing missing was the smell of dirt and poured concrete.

This is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen on KZread

Thank you so much for answering the questions I often ask myself.🤝🤝🤝🤝 Utterly educative.

Cant do a thing without a signature to ensure thst the correct person is shafted if something goes wrong.

@stevo8869

5 жыл бұрын

Bingo!

@DuffyNightingale

5 жыл бұрын

Holding people responsible while doing dangerous work is critical. Might have prevented a bad accident here in Seattle while two men were taking down a tower crane.

@paulskopic5844

5 жыл бұрын

The paperwork is intended to be completed by knowledgeable people such that no critical steps are missed.

@gowdsake7103

4 жыл бұрын

They only get shafted after the correct paperwork has been filled out

@ernestcrane6227

4 жыл бұрын

Signing your name as the responsible party will do wonders for your focus and thoroughness.

Great Video. Always wondered how they were built and stood up. Well done!

Thanks for the clean, informative video.

Neat video. We have a jaded society that doesn't appreciate these men enough for what they do for us; they're just not entertaining enough.

Wow. Great video. I've always been curious how these were built. KZread was an amazing invention.

I once worked as a tile setter inside a high rise building that used a "T crane" similar to the one in this video (the site also used a "buck-hoist" crane). I asked the building supervisor how much a crane like these cost. He told me: about $10,000.00 for the crane and $5,000.00 for street use ... per week. Now I understand why. I also went to "ground" near under the crane during its removal ... watching the removal crane and those guys up on the T-crane was something to see.

@helloimclaudio

Жыл бұрын

10 thousand ? That doesn’t seem right

Thank you for this instructional video, I now babe all the skills to build one my self

Amazing video.thanks for this good job

This is way more interesting than I expected.

Impressive amount of work that foes in to these things... I seen several of them go up but I had no idea that much work goes into building from the bottom up...

They do go over, i was working on the whitleys department store in Bays water London back in about 1986 when a crane fell over during testing ,one guy fell off the jib and the crane driver died, its very surreal watching an object that big fall over, the noise is incredible.

@timtrewyn453

5 жыл бұрын

Your comment is a valuable contribution. Nobody should die or be injured when a reasonable amount of prudence can prevent it. The paperwork puts engineers and inspectors on the spot to make sure it's right. Insurance companies prefer to keep premiums paid. It's a system of checks and balances that protects lives and profits.

@MichaelBarrett1984

5 жыл бұрын

diamond66ist wow that’s horrific

We are so grateful to these great and hard workers, thanks for sharing

Great video, Thank you so much for sharing. Hard work 😓

Thanks for instructions now I can finally set up a crane to get my basketball thats stuck on the roof of :)

Great video !! Thanks for sharing !!😎🍀🇺🇸

what a great video, appreciate it THANKS

Wishing you the best guys! Katrina *Clovis, New Mexico

@austinbrowning738

4 жыл бұрын

Roswell here

Great video full of information!

Amazing work by these brave building hero's..wow..now these guys earn and deserve a good wage..

Great video!! Thank you.

that remote control machine at 3:12 was SOOO COOL!

@epistte

5 жыл бұрын

That little sheepsfoot compacter can get into places that larger machines cannot. the lack of an operator means that it can be lower and go to places that would be too dangerous for a human.

@believeachieve2847

5 жыл бұрын

epistte ohhh ok, thank you so much for the explanation! they're truly amazing, i imagine the workers must day dream of driving them around for fun the way THEY want lol

@chattonlad9382

8 күн бұрын

@@epistte That's a padfoot roller. the sheepsfoot has much longer feet.

i never knew they needed such a base. i always wanted that job, if only they had a lift on the side or inside to get up top. awesome video

@labayruben609

5 жыл бұрын

Some of our tower cranes haved....like the one we use in Khalifa stadium in Qatar. Pls check NFT crane. ae

must be a fecking rain forest missing somewhere with all that paper work

@Chromedome38

6 жыл бұрын

It's the same a taking a s***. The job is not complete until the paper work is done

@michaelmccarthy4615

5 жыл бұрын

Until there's a problem

@antennaman1487

5 жыл бұрын

Forest products grown for paper products are a crop. It is a urban myth that old growth or other such trees are felled for paper products. Trees destined for pulpwood are grown, felled, processed, and land upon which they stood planted with new trees on a 3 for 1 basis. We do not suggest not eating bread in order to 'save wheat'; this is no different. Further, with the demise of the newspaper industry, which consumed the VAST majority of trees felled for paper, the paper industry is merely a shadow of it's former size. We need new myths to spread; this one is really old.

Leave it to the British to start a show with paperwork....

@TheChipmunk2008

5 жыл бұрын

yep, humans are more important than ....well why are they doing it other than for humans. So did you have a point? Also this is clearly an internal video intended for employees....

@Batman-wv5ng

5 жыл бұрын

TexasGTO That’s all they do today paper work and more paper work .

@JonDingle

5 жыл бұрын

@@Batman-wv5ng It is all to do with responsibility in the event of a claim and criminal charges being brought. Recently a tower crane collapsed in Canada, you should find the videos and then you will learn why paperwork is important. A young woman and her child were killed in that accident and others too.

@TimothySmithii

5 жыл бұрын

@@JonDingle; But the reason we were told we needed to add all that paperwork to the process in the first place was to avoid killing innocent young women and children while erecting or operating a crane. I'm not sure of the Canadian regs but most of the paperwork in the video here was probably also required on the crane involved in the incident with the young woman and child, yet it did not protect them. All that paperwork and the outcome is the same. We just fill that stuff out so they know who to bill. It has nothing to do with keeping people safe and everything to do with liability.

@JonDingle

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimothySmithii Yes, I shall quote my comment. "It is all to do with responsibility in the event of a claim and criminal charges being brought." So we agree then.

I like how it is detailed.

How the hell did I end up here

@skulz5273

4 жыл бұрын

Abt go sleep brain must watch

@shirleypretorius9406

4 жыл бұрын

My school brought me here for a project

@abdullahimohammed9599

4 жыл бұрын

KZread algorithm. You must've googled something sometime ago with "erection" in the keyword

@isanarditama

4 жыл бұрын

Your search history: erection, fap, etc

@redacted1157

4 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to see the meaning of life

Very informative! Thanks

Greatest tool on the job site!

@davidgrowsdragonfruit5301

5 жыл бұрын

...Is the guy doing the paperwork... 😂

Thank god they do a cat scan of the ground before erecting the crane. Nobody wants a buried cat to be disturbed.

I never knew that these cranes were well anchored to the foundations. Now I understand how they don't usually topple over.

My hat is off to these professionals.

Excellent video

I enjoyed this video immensely but, I found it lacking in certain specifics. So, exactly how high was this tower at its tallest point? What was its maximum lifting capacity? How many lorries did it take to provide all the parts to erect this behemoth? How many men work on the crew to assemble one of these tower cranes usually?

Super job I hats up civil engineer's plan and to doing Dare without fear (superb)

I drive past HTC Cranes fairly regularly. They have two permanent tower cranes on site and at Christmas they are lit up.

Great post.

Thanks! Now I know how to build a tower crane!

I feel like I need to do some paperwork just to watch this video.

I always wondered how their put them together.. Bit heigh for me does it wobble from side to side up that heigh

Good Video/Info.

Awesome video brother

6:08 "Safety equipment is worn at all times" as they show the crane operator not wearing a hardhat.

@mambak9

4 жыл бұрын

They are not required to wear it if they are inside a machine

@sonidoacuario845

4 жыл бұрын

Hard hats are only when you’re head is exposed and vulnerable to objects in your surroundings. If this guy spends all day inside the crane cockpit . No need to wear one

Thank you 😍😍😍

I am glad I worked in construction in the US, the hoopla in Australia is nuts. (BTW, a tagline does not control any lifting, it just allows someone to grasp the pick before it gets too close. I have seen laborers swung 100' because they thought they were going to control a pick with a tagline. Bovis Lend Lease is not a company with a good record for honesty or safety in the US either.

Wow. Just wow. I thought building a scaffolding was a pain in the butt

We have 3 town cranes in our little town about to make it quite a bit darker. Beside that, I always wondered how these things didn't topple over in the wind. Now I see that there is quite a bit of structure built beforehand to support them, and plenty of tests to see that they won't probably fail. I also want to see when they have no accessory cranes and have to jack up the rig! That seems scary as hell!

@BigBadLoneWolf

5 жыл бұрын

they are also parked with the slew ring free to rotate in the wind , so they weather cock

@jobandknock427

5 жыл бұрын

Self-erecting cranes are often used on smaller jobs: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIOdrcd6nK61pdo.html

Fascinating!

this is actually really interesting.

Thanks. Great illustration of how mountains of paperwork and mindless safety-ism are stifling the economy of Britain.

Nice video 👍👍

Good Video ..Thanks

Nice video!!!

Sick, thanks!

Thank you for education on safety issues of tower crane. J surender singal

I get this in my recommenced after the crane callapsing in New Orleans

AMAZING

I’m in the process of becoming a crane operator I’m looking forward to all this

this is the greatest thing that no one knows about right yet.

Nice job

2:48 Naughty construction workers are put in the crane cage

Noted Thank You sir 👍🙏✌👌

thanks, going to build one now

2:13 Am I the only one getting extreme satisfaction from this?

Nice video..

The concrete base will vary depending on soil conditions. This base or raft slab was built onto piers that probably go down to bedrock, guess the soil wasn't stable.

Cool video :)

Great showing film. Boo Yah

How did they setup the first crane to setup the 2nd one

Dang. Fell down another rabbit hole.

thank you for this video how to build tower crane

Half of the vid interesting Half of the vid Elf n Safety

Do these cranes have any sensors built in to monitor flexing or stress to alarm failure? We have sensors and dedicated processors in some of the newer excavation equipment.

@smurfpking3815

4 жыл бұрын

Yes its its overloaded on they make a loud beeping noise hard not to hear it also have wind monitors and they sway side to side when your stood close to them they have to have some flex otherwise they would snap if have no flex in them it's crazy to look at seeing them swinging side to side cant notice it from far away

Intresting!

I came here to see how they got all the parts of the tower crane up, only to find that they do it with a bigger crane... how do they put that one up?

When it's time to come down, what happens to the base? Is it just abandoned or is it removed?

@epistte

6 жыл бұрын

Often abandoned.

Great spelling on the forms lads - What is an Orperations Department?

Building one in my backyard right now.

Which came first the crane or the tower crane ?

What happens to the concrete base platform when the crane is de-commissioned ?

Can someone tell me if public are allowed beneath the counterweight at any time please

So about how long do you have to wait from the time the concrete is poured into the base untill the mast is erected?

@jackking5567

4 жыл бұрын

About tree fiddy.

What came first? The crane or the crane? You can’t build a crane without a crane but how would you build that crane without having a crane?

@dylanpeterson6192

5 жыл бұрын

a set of wooden gin poles with a rope and blocks built the first, then they got progressively larger and more complicated.

@21492005973494

5 жыл бұрын

mobile crane

@timr617

5 жыл бұрын

They use legos

@bolt7938

5 жыл бұрын

So what came first the chicken or the egg?

@kaspernbs

4 жыл бұрын

@@bolt7938 the egg did.

What came first, the crane or the egg? Good video I always wondered how these things are built