So excited because I got moved to the taller crane on the job yesterday. It's not often I am on a modernized crane. I love the spacious cab, the anti-glare coating on the curved window, and specifically the trolley camera!

Here's a couple of photos of our concrete pickup point. As an example of how difficult our job can be, I am three hundred feet (sorry for the Imperial - craning in N.A. is just like that sigh...) away from picking up 14,000 lb buckets, ten feet from an active roadway. I have to put the empty buckets down beside buses, cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and people, (sometimes rando joggers actually IN the site) and not hit anything. On a typical afternoon I do this up to a hundred times.

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@rightsprung Thank you for posting this. A few years ago I decided that if I could learn one heavy equipment job I wanted it to be this thing you do. I have no idea how any of it works, I just think it's a really unique and special set of skills that only gets applied in really complicated circumstances.
@coreysnipes @rightsprung huh - I’ve had similar thoughts. I really like big things, and jobs that are impactful but require care and attention, and heights.

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Oh you're very welcome! I take it for granted after twenty years, but I think it's important to post more than just the views sometimes so people know a bit more when they pass cranes :)