Crane action

Crane action a couple of days ago on the Zestan site in Court Lane, next to Court Rec., noticed at reference 1 and elsewhere. It seems that phase 2 of this project, unlike phase 1, needs a small tower crane, the like of which has never, in our leafy suburb, been seen before.

On the laptop on which I am working, the reinforcing panels, the cranes and their cables all bring out all kinds of interesting image artefacts. Maybe clicking them to enlarge will bring them up for you. Cranes from Baldwins.

Figure 2

A third of the jib coming down from on high. Perhaps the drill is to try it for size before you have the whole of the jib swinging around in the breeze.

Sticking the bits together. With the crane erectors sounding as if they were from somewhere north of Watford, maybe the midlands. Maybe nearer town they would have closed the whole road down.

Fully up by the time we passed by yesterday morning, that is to say Sunday. Snapped this morning.

View of completed crane over said leafy suburb. The roundabout used to contain rose bushes, but the residents round about were far too busy to help the council with their maintenance, so the bushes have now given way to grass, although one can still see where the beds had been. The sign in the middle is surprisingly heavy, but is regularly heaved over by returning drunks and youth. Returning, one can only suppose, to the other side of Hook Road.

The view from the west. Note how the crane leans right, while the lamppost right leans left. A consequence, I suppose, of the wide angle lens. Something of the same sort happens with the snaps of the aloe vera inflorescence, albeit taking a different direction. See reference 3.

The view from the east. Now clear that the suggestion about trying for size under Figure 2 above is quite wrong, as the section that was swinging was the distal rather than the proximal end. Perhaps the heap of sections had just been dropped off by the transporter on the wrong side of the site.

An impressive pile of concrete blocks holding the tower in place but no sign of any sign for Baldwins. And I remember that when I was long, it was an accepted wheeze for the tower crane driver to get paid double time to spend his Sunday doing something called greasing the cables. No sign of anything of that sort either.

PS: a few minutes later: I see that the rendering or whatever applied to the first snap by the blogger people has ironed out most of the interesting artefacts. Less resolution is perhaps more in this sort of case.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/its-all-go.html.

Reference 2: http://baldwinscranehire.co.uk/. This morning at least, showcasing a rather grander crane than ours.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/week-six.html.