How to build a Tower Crane 

So let me get this straight It takes a crane to build a crane??? 1.1k likes... and everyone in the comments is a crane engineer????

Warning: You cannot watch this video until you fill out the proper paperwork first.

The construction parts were interesting, but the paperwork parts were scintillating.

How to build a crane: step 1: get a crane step 2: use the crane to build a crane

Amazing. I always wondered how they constructed them. Great photography, really clear explanation. Great stuff.

wow even mentioned the document, this is the most detailed clip i had ever seen

Thank you for the very detailed video. Always wondered how the base of a crane is built

There are also self climbers. These are towers with a special base to the cab. The cab climbs one frame at a time and the tower lifts another section in and it is secured. Then the tower climbs the newly added frame. This is how they erect cranes beyond the reach of a land based mobile crane.

This is the question I would randomly ask my dad and now I finally get an answer

Whoa the level of detail here and footage quality is just fantastic. Thank you for the content.

I absolutely love this video. I've always wondered how one of these cranes are erected, now I know. I find this type of crane, and ones used a shipping ports so fascinating. I'd love to be a crane operator also. However, I'm fully retired now and dont work at all , and too old to change professions. However, I am an electrical engineer that just started designing things based on the Arduino micro-controller. This little computer can control stepper motors controlled by a joystick. I plan on making a scale model of both types of cranes, maybe 5 to 8 foot tall, then have the steppers move whatever moves, under my control with the joystick. I plan on putting in a colored camera for the view as if I am at the top as the operator. All needs to be functionally equivalent to the real thing. Then on the ground little model shipping containers, and other objects. This all will be the ultimate virtual reality game, even better than any computer based virtual reality game! As a kid I was always a huge fan of cranes, so awesome. I would spend hours just sitting there watching them. I even had permission from the port to go to the dock and be able to watch in person, and really close. I just wonder now why I didn't become a crane operator. I guess we really cant always tell what life is going to throw at us! Anyhow, I will be doing these two projects. I may be old, but I still love toys... and if the dog gets too close, I will lift him up and move him also... I like to pick up things and put them back down, as Arnold said on Saturday Night Live... but not the body building thing! Once I do the projects I will do a video and post it here. I'm gathering up all supplies I need to do them with...

Fantastic video! Cheers to all who participated in the decision to make and produce such a high quality and detailed video. The only thing missing was the smell of dirt and poured concrete.

3:38 Let us have a moment of silence for all who sacrificed themselves to make this crane...

Such detail in the script...wonderful!

This is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen on RU-vid

I once worked as a tile setter inside a high rise building that used a "T crane" similar to the one in this video (the site also used a "buck-hoist" crane). I asked the building supervisor how much a crane like these cost. He told me: about $10,000.00 for the crane and $5,000.00 for street use ... per week. Now I understand why. I also went to "ground" near under the crane during its removal ... watching the removal crane and those guys up on the T-crane was something to see.

Great Video. Always wondered how they were built and stood up. Well done!

Me: I really have to go to bed RU-vid: y’all ever wonder how they build those cranes you see in cities?? My brain: you have to know, click it

Thank you so much for answering the questions I often ask myself.🤝🤝🤝🤝 Utterly educative.

Wow. Great video. I've always been curious how these were built. RU-vid was an amazing invention.

Neat video. We have a jaded society that doesn't appreciate these men enough for what they do for us; they're just not entertaining enough.

Cant do a thing without a signature to ensure thst the correct person is shafted if something goes wrong.

Thanks for the clean, informative video.

Impressive amount of work that foes in to these things... I seen several of them go up but I had no idea that much work goes into building from the bottom up...

Thank you for this instructional video, I now babe all the skills to build one my self

This is way more interesting than I expected.

must be a fecking rain forest missing somewhere with all that paper work

Great video !! Thanks for sharing !!😎🍀🇺🇸

They do go over, i was working on the whitleys department store in Bays water London back in about 1986 when a crane fell over during testing ,one guy fell off the jib and the crane driver died, its very surreal watching an object that big fall over, the noise is incredible.

How the hell did I end up here

We are so grateful to these great and hard workers, thanks for sharing

Amazing video.thanks for this good job

Great video, Thank you so much for sharing. Hard work 😓

Leave it to the British to start a show with paperwork....

i never knew they needed such a base. i always wanted that job, if only they had a lift on the side or inside to get up top. awesome video

what a great video, appreciate it THANKS

Great video!! Thank you.

that remote control machine at 3:12 was SOOO COOL!

Great video full of information!

Wishing you the best guys! Katrina *Clovis, New Mexico

Thank god they do a cat scan of the ground before erecting the crane. Nobody wants a buried cat to be disturbed.

Very informative! Thanks

My hat is off to these professionals.

Thanks for instructions now I can finally set up a crane to get my basketball thats stuck on the roof of :)

Amazing work by these brave building hero's..wow..now these guys earn and deserve a good wage..

Excellent video

I feel like I need to do some paperwork just to watch this video.

Awesome video brother

I like how it is detailed.

I drive past HTC Cranes fairly regularly. They have two permanent tower cranes on site and at Christmas they are lit up.

Wow. Just wow. I thought building a scaffolding was a pain in the butt

I never knew that these cranes were well anchored to the foundations. Now I understand how they don't usually topple over.

We have 3 town cranes in our little town about to make it quite a bit darker. Beside that, I always wondered how these things didn't topple over in the wind. Now I see that there is quite a bit of structure built beforehand to support them, and plenty of tests to see that they won't probably fail. I also want to see when they have no accessory cranes and have to jack up the rig! That seems scary as hell!

I am glad I worked in construction in the US, the hoopla in Australia is nuts. (BTW, a tagline does not control any lifting, it just allows someone to grasp the pick before it gets too close. I have seen laborers swung 100' because they thought they were going to control a pick with a tagline. Bovis Lend Lease is not a company with a good record for honesty or safety in the US either.

Greatest tool on the job site!

Great post.

Thanks! Now I know how to build a tower crane!

I enjoyed this video immensely but, I found it lacking in certain specifics. So, exactly how high was this tower at its tallest point? What was its maximum lifting capacity? How many lorries did it take to provide all the parts to erect this behemoth? How many men work on the crew to assemble one of these tower cranes usually?

Thank you for education on safety issues of tower crane. J surender singal

Good Video/Info.

Thanks. Great illustration of how mountains of paperwork and mindless safety-ism are stifling the economy of Britain.

Super job I hats up civil engineer's plan and to doing Dare without fear (superb)

2:48 Naughty construction workers are put in the crane cage

Nice video!!!

this is actually really interesting.

Nice video 👍👍

I’m in the process of becoming a crane operator I’m looking forward to all this

this is the greatest thing that no one knows about right yet.

Good Video ..Thanks

Nice job

6:08 "Safety equipment is worn at all times" as they show the crane operator not wearing a hardhat.

Fascinating!

Nice video..

2:13 Am I the only one getting extreme satisfaction from this?

I get this in my recommenced after the crane callapsing in New Orleans

Noted Thank You sir 👍🙏✌👌

Great showing film. Boo Yah

Dang. Fell down another rabbit hole.

8:34 I hope his wife finds the report to be a pass

What came first, the crane or the egg? Good video I always wondered how these things are built

thanks, going to build one now

Great spelling on the forms lads - What is an Orperations Department?

Sick, thanks!

it was interesting to watch but i also would like to see the Surveying process details

thank you for this video how to build tower crane

AMAZING

Half of the vid interesting Half of the vid Elf n Safety

Thank you

What came first? The crane or the crane? You can’t build a crane without a crane but how would you build that crane without having a crane?

Cool video :)

The concrete base will vary depending on soil conditions. This base or raft slab was built onto piers that probably go down to bedrock, guess the soil wasn't stable.

Thank you 😍😍😍

Why doesn't the crane to build a crane just do the work itself

I always wondered how their put them together.. Bit heigh for me does it wobble from side to side up that heigh

so everyone is safe...sounds great...what went wrong in Seattle???

Do these cranes have any sensors built in to monitor flexing or stress to alarm failure? We have sensors and dedicated processors in some of the newer excavation equipment.

Building one in my backyard right now.

Intresting!

Awesome sauce

Yes always wondered how they keep popping up