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I had some training yesterday, Hoisting and Rigging, and we were talking about cranes and how many of them (like most of them) were built before 1970 — so many of the cranes we see might be at least 50 years old. It might explain why these cranes are unused at times. Likely they are not functioning as expected, and parts are harder and harder to come by. But still, for crane companies, it’s still cheaper to repair then build new cranes.
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Saw the crane working only 1 day so far, also how long till the other crane gets finished? Boy, this site is slow, lol
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Its almost as interesting to see how painfully slow they work....
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Completion sometime in 2022 rather than next year?
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Drewlo: It's done when we say it's done.™
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I completely agree, unsurprisingly. I'm glad someone is building on this end of the downtown, but these buildings are hideous. They look like they ought to be student buildings around the university, or better yet cast back to 1980s pomo craze.
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Could be very well that the majority of the podium portion doesn’t need large cranes, just use mobile ones for now, until the towers start being built.
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Final parts of tower crane 2 is now on site
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More sections of crane arriving as we speak.