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A Crane has arrived!!

scottie33 said:
My thoughts are the one crane that you see on the west side and the other crane same location on east side. When they pick the truss system up they could both swing directly east til the west end of the truss clears the west crane. From there the west crane will swing counterclockwise to the north so the truss system is running nw to sw. The truss will then be lifted to the nw til it clears the east crane so it can turn clockwise to the north and it would have cleared both cranes to be set...see if I can draw something up...does that make sense?
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That's how I'd do it.

It's kind of like parallel parking a car but instead of straightening up to get in between the cars you continue at an angle until you are on the complete other side of the cars and then straighten up. It's not an easy pick to make. Your operators and your flagger have got to be good.
 
So can we expect the big metal hoopajoop to be put in place today, or do we have to wait til next week?
 
isu_oak said:
So can we expect the big metal hoopajoop to be put in place today, or do we have to wait til next week?
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My guess is cranes in place today (and work finished on main structure). East support goes up either over the weekend or Monday. Big lift on about Wednesday.
 
Isuska said:
That is going to be fun to watch next week
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I hope you don't have a lot planned, this will take several hours.

Speaking of which, who else wants to take a vacation day and watch them place the cross-support in place while tailgating? :jimlad:
 
CONEClone said:
I hope you don't have a lot planned, this will take several hours.

Speaking of which, who else wants to take a vacation day and watch them place the cross-support in place while tailgating? :jimlad:
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I see your sarcasm pirate but I am seriously considering taking the day off to watch them put it up.
 
CONEClone said:
I hope you don't have a lot planned, this will take several hours.

Speaking of which, who else wants to take a vacation day and watch them place the cross-support in place while tailgating? :jimlad:
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Gonna be an early morning tailgate. Assuming everything is in place and ready by Tuesday, I'd be that thing goes up in the air no later than 8 AM. I bet that from the time it comes off the ground to the time they get the first bolt through is about an hour. Getting everything tightened up and then the rigs cut loose will be another 3-4 hours most likely.

That said if I was in the Ames area I'd actually consider it...
 
I think they should leave the scoreboard where it is right now. How awesome would that be for Shontrelle to be running directly at himself if we position a camera man in the endzone haha
 
East tower will go up on Monday or Tuesday. Two cranes for the big lift on Wednesday. They will work in parallel to get it in. These are professionals and they know how to erect steel. Lift will be done very early, most likely starting at sunrise.

Love the armchair engineering on this forum.
 
ISUSammu said:
East tower will go up on Monday or Tuesday. Two cranes for the big lift on Wednesday. They will work in parallel to get it in. These are professionals and they know how to erect steel. Lift will be done very early, most likely starting at sunrise.

Love the armchair engineering on this forum.[/

I'm assuming first thing in the morning since it is usually the calmest wind conditions.

I don't know what you mean by armchair engineer...could you elaborate?

And of course they are professionals at what they do...if they weren't they wouldn't be there constructing it. But I know Weitz is a very professional firm and only hire the best contractors for the applicable work.
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ISUSammu said:
East tower will go up on Monday or Tuesday. Two cranes for the big lift on Wednesday. They will work in parallel to get it in. These are professionals and they know how to erect steel. Lift will be done very early, most likely starting at sunrise.

Love the armchair engineering on this forum.
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Probably because there are a lot of actual engineers on this site.
 
ISUSammu said:
East tower will go up on Monday or Tuesday. Two cranes for the big lift on Wednesday. They will work in parallel to get it in. These are professionals and they know how to erect steel. Lift will be done very early, most likely starting at sunrise.

Love the armchair engineering on this forum.
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Looking at the degrees of everyone on the last few pages who have offered "armchair engineering", I'd say they are just as, if not more qualified than you...
 
justincl said:
A scissors pick would be appropriate terminology there. Nice drawing by the way.
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Thanks for that Justin. Btw, how's all the rain treating you with the bridge work? It's killing our schedule right now...soils are drying up the last couple days for work to continue but then well get smoked this weekend with rain and it'll be middle to end next week before we can get back at it!
 
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