Some of you saw and enjoyed my pic of the tower crane which I posted a few days ago on the photo thread. I took it as part of a little commercial flying commission I’d got on a building development in Bromley, Kent. As part of that morning’s flying and working I also grabbed a lot of decent video footage which wasn’t going to get used in the presentation I made for my client and they were happy for me to make my own video using this footage - so here it is…my latest piece…“Fear of Heights”. Enjoy, comment, repost and share you lovely pilots!!!
Beautifully sharp video @JayForceOne and love the editing. Wanting that guy go up the crane was surprisingly interesting, seeing the care he made as he went up each section. I liked the colouring as well, was it out of camera or was it colour graded?
My bums tweaking at the thought of having to sit there all day in a bubble in the sky!.
Hope he does not forget that it does not have an outside toilet !
Great Video JayForceOne !
It was graded after camera but the tweaks were minimal. I’ve spent a year messing around with the settings for the camera after many hours of YouTube university and I’ve got them down to pretty much how I like them now. The added advantage was it was a really bright and crisp, cool autumn morning so everything looked really fresh.
After 24 years of Lifting 140 Ton Generator Module Packs onto Gas & Oil Rigs and also 45 ton Nuclear Reactor Coolant Motors (below) into position
JayForceOne’s crane is a baby !, but, never the less, just as dangerous !
This motor runs in liquid Co2 (600 psi) ,and pumps it around the reactor to keep it cool, and also the reactor.
power requirements 11,000 volts, 8,000 r.p.m.
6 ft in diameter, 18ft long, weight (including Impeller) 48 tons.
Man I loved building those beasts !!
Great video. Nice use of hyperlapse.
In our industry if anything is above head height it’s classed as working at height!! And we have to wear a safety harness, have one person who must be a trained first aider standing by in case of accident, or he gets hung up in a harness if he falls, and a 3rd person to raise the alarm in case the 2nd person can’t because they are assisting the 1st person.
They’d have a dicky fit if they saw this.
Believe it or not if we walk down the steps in the office, without holding the handrail, we get reported by security. There is even a hand sanitizer at the top & bottom of the stairs so you don’t pass on any germs holding the handrail.
The daft thing is the Health & Safety executive have researched and found you are safer NOT holding the handrail if you are ok with balance on your feet because reaching out tends to unbalance you. Crazy world.
It always baffles me as to how they built tall cranes in the first place. Do they have another taller crane to build it, if so, how do they build that one !!
