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Amazing engineering |
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By: Poppy Date: May 21, 2015, 3:15 pm |
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Just had to post this pic. It's amazing. This massive |
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hydraulic crane is building an even bigger crane that will be |
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used to build a cinema complex on top of the Market Place in |
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Bolton. I used to be the market hall. The red crane is the |
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largest in Europe and has come from Poland with its team of |
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engineers. To anchor it they have sunk its base into a huge |
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block of concrete which weighs as much as a five storey |
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building. Sounds impossible doesn't it. The road which passes |
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it has been closed all this week so that the very large mobile |
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crane can lift the parts of the other crane into position. The |
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operator's cab is set at a 45 degree angle so that he can see |
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the end of the jib from cab level. Really interesting. |
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Re: Amazing engineering |
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By: Piper Date: May 21, 2015, 5:39 pm |
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[font=trebuchet ms]IS amazing. |
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Kev's uncle has a business owning and operating cranes. Very |
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lucrative. This man has always known how to make money--working |
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two jobs, starting businesses, investing in prime land and real |
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estate, even inventing things--and they have a lot of money, but |
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they're 75 and may never retire. He said to me once, " How can |
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you ever know if you have enough (money)?" His sense of |
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security depends entirely on money. I understand to a point. |
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You can't survive in our world without money. Financial strain |
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is miserable, and I hope to never go through what we went |
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through a couple years back, ever again. I don't need to be |
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rich, but it's nice to have enough to be comfortable. I just |
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hate to see them work themselves to death because they can never |
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have 'enough.' :-\ [/font] |
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