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teuchter said:
Can you ask him whether he has any water closet facilities up there?
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teuchter, there are no water closet facilities in any crane cabs. Operators are expected either to descend when they have the need, or to provide their own receptacle into which they can urinate. Such receptacles range from empty plastic milk containers (preferred due to their relative opacity) to empty pop bottles (unpopular due to their narrow opening). Good manners dictate that each operator remove his collected waste at the end of the shift and dispose of it in the nearest available facilities. However, some operators have no manners.

As for what happens in the event of the need for more substantial waste, there are again various options, only one of which is to descend the crane.

When I asked my mate about the very high cranes, he informed me that the same protocols apply. Apparently H & S has not yet turned it's gaze on this issue.
 
Be nice to have a little fridge for beers and a microwave for a quick pizza while you're up there. Are the cranes equipped thus?
 
I wonder if any crane operators occasionally dispose of liquid waste in a more direct manner, without the use of receptacles and whether any impact such practice might have on the environment below are likely to be traced back to the perpetrator.
 
teuchter said:
I wonder if any crane operators occasionally dispose of liquid waste in a more direct manner, without the use of receptacles and whether any impact such practice might have on the environment below are likely to be traced back to the perpetrator.
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I think if a shit landed on someone's head they would be preeeety sure where it came from. Well, before they get too high on the structure. Then it could be a pissed off steel fixer or something.
 
teuchter said:
I wonder if any crane operators occasionally dispose of liquid waste in a more direct manner, without the use of receptacles and whether any impact such practice might have on the environment below are likely to be traced back to the perpetrator.
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teuchter, I too have wondered this. I imagine that throwing fluid about at that hight would render it into droplets fairly fast.


Or perhaps the wind (and it is usually windy up there) whips it about with the result that it ends up all over the person who was doing the disposing.
 
editor said:
Be nice to have a little fridge for beers and a microwave for a quick pizza while you're up there. Are the cranes equipped thus?
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:confused: where did my post go :confused:

I wrote a post about how there are crane cabs on really really high cranes in which some operators have to spend several days, which are like the cabs in long distance lorries, with nuke ovens and fridges.

And some stuff about how I imagine there must be two operators on such a crane cos otherwise the crane would be idle when the operator was off shift.

And how I'd ask my mate, but we don't always talk about his work when we meet up for a pint and a chat.
 
When I come down Brixton Hill sitting up top at the front on the bus I get a good view of the top third of the gherkin. The other day I noted it was partially obscured by the Shard and that the shard dwarfs it height wise already. It is going to be high isnt' it.
 
story said:
teuchter, I too have wondered this. I imagine that throwing fluid about at that hight would render it into droplets fairly fast.


Or perhaps the wind (and it is usually windy up there) whips it about with the result that it ends up all over the person who was doing the disposing.
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I would imagine that the person doing the dispensing would soon learn to take wind direction into account.
 
How do they free climb down after a rain storm when the ladder is very wet and slippery? Parachute, night in the cab, rescue team with a tea towel or by being careful?
 
bromley said:
How do they free climb down after a rain storm when the ladder is very wet and slippery? Parachute, night in the cab, rescue team with a tea towel or by being careful?
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Kiddy shit compared to climbing the derrick on a semi-submersible exploration rig in the north sea during a force 7 gale at 2am in February - the whole thing is flinging itself about like crazy, its pitch fucking black and freezing

Something evryone should do once at least afore they pop their clogs
 
hipipol said:
Kiddy shit compared to climbing the derrick on a semi-submersible exploration rig in the north sea during a force 7 gale at 2am in February - the whole thing is flinging itself about like crazy, its pitch fucking black and freezing

Something evryone should do once at least afore they pop their clogs
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I shouldn't think you'd have to do it twice for that.
 
That would make sense

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...if he was actually sleeping in the crane cab :D
 
Ooh, thank you for posting that, cybertect :)


He was indeed sleeping in the cab. They don't wiggle the levers every moment they're up there. He kips between lifts if there's time, even during the day.

Cushy job :D

And bromley: they just climb careful-like in the rain.
 
Newsflash! Just got a phone call from ma mate. It's windy up there tonight.


This is his last night up there.
 
Saw it in real life today while on the 35 (The bus, not the floor).

It's going to be huge. All are all floors plumbed and electrified as they go in or as that done at the end - they just have the ducts?

Is the Heron going to be bigger or will the the MACE/SHARD, depending which way you come on the 35 - going to be bigger?
 
Heron is finished already, it's the boxy one by Liverpool Street and is 202m to the roof, 238m (IIRC) to the spire. Shard will be 309m to the very top, so 1/2 as tall again as Heron. Just down the road from Heron, the Pinnacle (Helter Skelter) is just coming out of the ground. That one will be 288m, but will actually be higher than Shard by a couple of meters cos it's on a hill.
 
I think we need a dedicated Pinnacle/Helter Skelter thread.

Have to admit I don't know much about that one at all.
 
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