A Crane has arrived!!
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Tried it again, still works for me.
IE gives me some issues with it. Firefox usually pulls it up. I am sure it also only allows so many people on at one time, so it could have been full when you tried.
It looks like they are moving the crane into position to raise the steel structure, can someone explain why they would do this without building the east support first.
I was thinking (just an assumption) that they were not going to install the east side support to leave room for the crane's to get into position. However, this does not answer the question as to how they will get the crane's out after the support is in place...
My assumption would be so that they can build it to fit. Nothing is perfect, and building over another structure, I would guess there would be some fudging to get things to fit right. This leaves the option to adjust the east side as needed.
There is some play with the structures and bolting, however in today's world and technology those anchor bolt layouts are going to be within 100ths of an inch and there will not be any moving the east tower to fit.
Also, leaving out the east tower during the cross truss assembly leaves a little more room but you still can't drive over those anchor bolts that embedded a couple feet in concrete. Once the truss goes up it will leave additional space to the grass for thecranes to maneuver out of there.
That is true, I forget to remember how exact these massive structures really are anymore.
Maybe someone with some construction knowledge can help me out. How are they going to be able to get the scoreboard over the big yellow crane?
i also see there is a smaller crane on the east side of Jacobson, for the east truss?
i also see there is a smaller crane on the east side of Jacobson, for the east truss?
My guess is something like this quick mspaint mockup..
I see that they have an excavator digging out some of the east hill, making room for the other big yellow crane?
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?
