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Something happening in the road where I work

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Just down the road from where I work the National Grid are digging a hole. Today 4 low loaders turned up and parked in the road with 4 sections of a huge tunnelling machine. I work here

Here is a link about the tunnel they are digging
http://www05.abb.com/global/scot/scot24 ... g72dpi.pdf

I wandered down the road to the site entrance to ask what crane was going to lift this huge bit of kit off the low loaders. We've got a 750 ton crane coming Thursday and we expect to start lifting on Friday.

So I wondered what a 750 ton crane looks like. Couldn't find one. managed to find a 500 ton crane.
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website for crane

Now I wanted to take Friday off work, but all of a sudden, I want to go to work on Friday :shock:
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Holy crap :shock:
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The mighty machines are endlessly fascinating, aren't they?
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right.. so they need a machine like that to run a few more electrical cables?
Something tells me they're not being entirely honest.
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Looks like the National Grid is compensating for something... :roll:
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whoa... hey take pics so we can all see what a 750 ton crane looks like!
I hope all goes well.
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shieldgenerator7 wrote:whoa... hey take pics so we can all see what a 750 ton crane looks like!
I hope all goes well.
Better yet! Embellish the crane a bit...
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I was sure when I saw the title that this topic was gonna be either porn shoot or aliens landed. Oh well, ya can't correctly predict them all.
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Aradhus wrote:I was sure when I saw the title that this topic was gonna be either **** shoot or aliens landed. Oh well, ya can't correctly predict them all.
yeah I thought this was going to be something else too, like maybe an earthquake or something. It would be funny if it was about aliens. "Aliens landed on my street and now they have to bring in a 750 ton crane to stop them from taking over the Earth!" :lol:

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Have the children stopped rioting already?
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Timminz wrote:Have the children stopped rioting already?
That's what the crane is for, they're gonna drop stuff on the rioters.
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:shock:
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You just need a Krupps Earth Excavator on site to speed up the process.

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