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jcbgm
02-16-2009, 09:57 PM
Hope this hasn't been posted already. Pages of pictures from the Trump Tower crane operator in Chicago.

http://jimojimo.smugmug.com/gallery/5936452_DVKmB#369825945_j7n6E
bobcat_ron
02-16-2009, 09:59 PM
Wow, I'm dizzy just looking at them!
AintNoFun
02-16-2009, 10:24 PM
thats pretty fing sick...
dozerman21
02-16-2009, 10:28 PM
Pretty amazing pics. I think if I zoomed in enough I could see my house... 3 hours away.:dizzy:
Dirtman2007
02-16-2009, 10:41 PM
Ahhhhhh!

That's a long ways down. Must be fun when nature calls:laugh:
Scag48
02-17-2009, 12:18 AM
I really don't have a desire to run cranes for a living. However, our training grounds offers a tower crane course which I may take in the next couple years just to have that certification. We have a short, 100 foot Morrow at the grounds that I've been up in. It's pretty wild when the wind starts blowing, it sways back and forth. Where the grounds are located, the wind blows about 350 days a year, no joke, the wind is ALWAYS blowing to some degree so the tower crane operators are well versed at coping with the wind by the time they get out on a job. :laugh:
Gravel Rat
02-17-2009, 04:30 AM
Not a job for me I don't like heights I would probably pass out being up that high :laugh:
all ferris
02-17-2009, 10:09 AM
Awesome....It's simply amazing that they can build a structure of that magnitude. I think most people have no idea about the logistics that go into a construction project like that. He!!, I'm sure it's way more involved than I can even imagine.

If I was in that skycrane they would have to pry my hands from whatever I was holding on to. Talk about white knuckles!!!:dizzy:
nobagger
02-17-2009, 06:58 PM
Wow awesome pis.
DUSTYCEDAR
02-17-2009, 07:02 PM
wow what fun
kreft
02-17-2009, 09:45 PM
great pic's!!
deere615
02-17-2009, 10:27 PM
That is a little to high for me, awesome pictures though
PROCUT1
02-17-2009, 11:45 PM
How do they get that up there and back down?
Lawn Enforcer
02-18-2009, 08:32 PM
Amazing pics! I would never be able to do something like that!
kreft
02-18-2009, 08:51 PM
How do they get that up there and back down?

they have a mobile crane to set the base, and once thats built the put up the cab, and the operator can pick up peices and build it him self using hydrulics attached to the sections, or something like that. i used to know more about it but forgot.