Trinity Leeds Project
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mhoulden
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What was the crane they used to install the new lift at the City Varieties? There's some photos of it in the City Varieties group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... type=3It's also some sort of Liebherr and I like the idea of avoiding the buildings around the place by going over them.
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BLAKEY
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BIG N wrote: Blakey - not too sure if it would have been a 1400 / 1500 that did the lift at Queenswood, more likely to have been a smaller cousin such as the six axle LTM1250 which is still an impressive looking machine with a lift capacity of 250 tons max Just looked at my pictures BIG N and you're right. The "huge" crane at the flats here was a three axle (one front, two rear) affair, but of course it still looked highly dramatic in the confines of our car park, and so close to the building itself. I know what you meant, too, about "fringe interest" in such things, especially when they affect your own environment.
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somme1916
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BIG N wrote: P.S. Somme, after posting my little post above i moved on to notice you had already mentioned the crane was a Leibherr model, sorry, i wasn't wanting to duplicate you, i hadn't been to that post before posting here. No worries BIG N.Interesting info and impressive set of stats.....Cheers
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Leodian
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Cheers all for your contributions about the crane. I was chatting to one of the crane crew while I was taking the photos on August 18 2012 and he said that the crane could lift up to the 500 tons that Big N mentioned yesterday. That's some weight to lift!
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Phill_dvsn
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Leodian wrote: I was chatting to one of the crane crew while I was taking the photos on August 18 2012 and he said that the crane could lift up to the 500 tons that Big N mentioned yesterday. That's some weight to lift! This crane can lift some heavy weight too-nearly....oops! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCJzO3w ... e=shareAnd vindictive big crane teaches a smaller crane a lesson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdnuwLr ... re=related
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Leodian
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Leodian wrote: I was chatting to one of the crane crew while I was taking the photos on August 18 2012 and he said that the crane could lift up to the 500 tons that Big N mentioned yesterday. That's some weight to lift! This crane can lift some heavy weight too-nearly....oops! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCJzO3w ... e=shareAnd vindictive big crane teaches a smaller crane a lesson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdnuwLr ... re=related Hi PhillThe first video was funny as it also looked so staged (unfunny oops if it was not staged!).Wow, the second looked genuine. I would have spoilt myself if I had been close to it!Taking of things dropping I wonder how long it will be before something falls onto the glass slalom-like structure at the Trinity Project. I suspect it cannot be long (if it has not already happened) just as I'm amazed that (as far as I know) nothing has yet fallen onto and smashed the glass mosaic roof at the Victoria Quarter. You never know when a meteorite will drop!
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Leodian
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In case anyone wonders what I mean by the glass slalom-like structure at the Trinty Project the attached photo is a Trinty Project webcam image that I saved yesterday.
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Phill_dvsn
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Leodian wrote: The first video was funny as it also looked so staged (unfunny oops if it was not staged!). The old guy on the first video looking a bit bewildered was funniest, he was about 6' away from being squashed to pieces
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