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How To Install An Escalator On The 101st Floor Of America’s Tallest Building

Here we see an an escalator being hoisted up to the 101st floor of World Trade Center 1. (How did you think they got escalators up that high?) At first glance, the dizzying perspective of this photo will make your brain hurt.

1 October 2012

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Monster Machines: The 71m Tall, 4600-Tonne Crane That Builds Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft carriers are, how to say, big. Building them is a lot easier if you have a really, really big crane. Meet Big Blue. She’s the largest crane in the western hemisphere, and she’s hard at work piecing together the new Ford-class aircraft carriers in Newport News, Virginia.

6 September 2012

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Vladmir Putin Teaches Baby Birds To Fly, Because Russia

Like something out of a twisted Disney nightmare, President of Russia Vladmir Putin took to the skies, clothed in white overalls and a faux beak, and rigged into a strange flying contraption, in a fantastic effort to teach darling baby birdies — cranes, to be precise — how to fly.

3 July 2012

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Are You Impressed By This Publicity Stunt?

A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided it would try to impress potential buyers — or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment — by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other.

4 April 2012

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$4000 Crane Lamp Is A 1:50 Scale Model Of The Real Thing

Standing nearly 2m tall, the Crane Lamp by former Lego designer Charlie Davidson is supposedly a scale model of the largest crawler crane in the world. The huge crane portion of the lamp sits by the wall and hoists up a glass-tube light sculpture over the centre of the room.

12 August 2011

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How Do You Hoist 1350-Tonne Boats 73m In The Air?

Flat-bottomed barges have been hauled goods up the canals of Belgium for almost two centuries. But by the 1950s, barges had outgrown the series of locks and lifts along the Canal du Centre. This is the Belgians’ €160 million answer.

3 August 2011

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World’s Biggest Basket Lift Is Taller Than All Of Notre Dame

There must be a good reason you’d be in an open air basket 112m above the ground. Besides hot-air ballooning, you might be standing in a Bronto S-112 HLA, repairing hunchback damage atop the world’s most famous cathedral.

19 July 2011

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World’s Tallest Mobile Crane Is Also World’s Strongest

The blades of the world’s biggest wind turbine don’t just sprout from the impeller like leaves. And at 364 tons, you’ll need a pretty hefty crane – like the Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1. It’s is strong enough to lift three of them simultaneously.

15 July 2011

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World’s Strongest Crawler Crane Can Raise The Roof Off A Stadium

Take, for example, Houston’s Reliant Stadium. Its 1000-ton roof takes several minutes to slide open and closed. Bah! With an LR13000 crawler crane on hand, that roof could pop off like a bottle cap.

25 June 2011

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The Strongest Crane In The Works Out With Oil Rigs

20,000 metric tons. That’s 98 Statues of Liberty or 10,000 VW Beetles. But when you’re building the world’s largest oil rigs, your crane needs to be able to hold every last ounce.

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