A ride and spin in the built in lift/elevator on our crane. Quite a height and slightly disconcerting when the single wire rope lift clunks over each of the telescoping sections of its track.
I want to press the like button for Clive, but I’m clinging onto my chair too tight due to vertigo apprehension. That was the scariest Big Clive video ever, even with spicy capacitors or lithium battery fires taken into account.
"I do notice it is a hydrolic drive" I would've noticed the hydrolic drive in my pants and would've needed a change asap. Props to you for somehow staying collected and educational 📈
Back when I was a wandering electrician, I had a camera/network infrastructure job in a warehouse. Our coordinator rented a couple of 23 foot scissor lifts for us to use. Unfortunately, whomever he was talking to drastically underestimated the ceiling height. We ended up having to rent a 50 footer for a couple of days so we could make our primary cable runs so we could do the finish work on the smaller lifts. By that point, I had gotten pretty used to the lifts, though those 23 footers were all wallered out, so they would sway pretty good. But that 50 footer, good Lord. It was a rental that had seen far better days long before we got to it. That platform would sway a good 3 to 5 feet side to side at full height. And you know full well it isn't going to fall over, the base of that thing weighs a good 10,000+ lbs. But when that bastard got wobbling when you were moving around up there, I was just white-knuckled holding those rails, lol... So yeah, not sure I would care too much to be on that thing, lol...
May not be as high but I have been up in a GENIE Z45 or it was s-125 it was almost full boom out near the corner of the roof and just went out the last foot or 2 pass the corner and the big gust of wind caught it and made it sway a bit and to make ever matters harder I was trying to get close to the corner by rotating the it the wind was not helping at all and then just as I was as close as I wanted the wind drop and almost sent the basket in to the wall with a hard slam. I was fitting point to point wifi links with a friend who was at the other building about 10km away and he had no wind at all. I would say I was up a good 30ft
PFFT.. Prior to retirement I regularly had to climb a 100 foot ladder truck as an FD member. That was replaced by a 102 foot boom rig. The ladder truck always made me feel safer, if it lost power or had a hydraulic failure, you could just climb down. Not a possibility on the boom rig! NYFD used to do a "Cathedral climb" You would take a 50 or 60 foot ground ladder and the ladder team would erect it vertical, then while they braced it using tormentor poles and weight, the recruit had to climb to the top, go over and descend the reverse side in full gear. Now they really have some tall rigs, FDNY has a couple 230 foot ariels in service
LoL, we used to make window cleaners cradle gearbox winches. Testing them was OK, but now again a gust of wind can make the cradle move away from the building and gently bang itself back on the building. At that time I was the test engineer and had to test virtually every man carrying gearboxes. I didn't mind it got me out and about. Edinburgh looks lovely at any time of the year. Hope your crane lift experience was all you expected and a wee bit more. Thanks Clive good post.👍
I didn't know I loved working at heights until I was made redundant as a software developer and had to get a proper job chemical cleaning the stonework on most of Canary Wharf from cradles. Brilliant, but with intermittent terror. I didn't mind knocking against a building, but sometimes the cradle would swing back and forth and you'd suddenly get an unexpected view of the ground.
I worked on cradles and they had runners on the building in which you inserted two paddles that are attached to the cradle. All buildings should have these because it is dangerous to have free floating cradles that can bang into the buildings because of a gust of wind.
@@Vile_Entity_3545 These cradles were before runners were mandatory, this was in the late 70's. I've worked on top of silos, huge satellite dishes and sewage treatment works, which may not be high, but very, very smelly. I dropped a few screwdrivers and spanners into the scraper tanks, they are probably still there.
This is one of those first time experiences where you are surprised at how good it feels to be standing on the ground again. As a welder, I often found myself working at height. You get used to it, but I never got so I enjoyed it, plus every job takes about three times as long, and you always look at what the riggers did with very deep suspicion.
You could get some amazing night photography from up there. I bungee jumped off one many years ago. It was an amazing experience and I remember opening my eyes and not knowing which way up I was as I was facing the sea which was almost the same colour as the sky.
It sounded like 3 cylinders on the engine running the lift. It is an experience going up a tower crane, the view is awesome. Getting to do it at night is a treat for sure.
They should have set him up with a fake "systems monitor" running on a Windows tablet attached to the lift, which would of course detect all sorts of dangerous sounding anomalies, followed by a blue screen or death near the top.
Thanks for sharing, I can feel I still have intestines, just watching it and hearing the descriptions. And the "excellent" in the end is epic, IMHO. You have bigger kahunas then me!
Boy, am I glad to live through this vicariously. Because I couldn’t possibly live through it directly. I’d have a panic attack. Thank you though, for sharing it, and for mostly following safety protocols.
Got an interview for an apprenticeship at peel ports in Glasgow, it was only until the end of the interview they mentioned you will be working and doing inspections at the top of the cranes. It was a no from me, i really can't do big heights.
I once worked with a guy in Chelmsford who got very drunk one night and decided to climb to the top of one of these cranes and then fell asleep. When he woke up sober the next day he was too scared to climb back down and had to be rescued! 🤣
I don't even want to be within the radius that that thing can can fall onto let alone consider going up in it. Best example ever of a job that should be done with some VR goggles and a remote set of controls.
Not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse having the kind of inquisitive mind to try and work out the safety mechanisms while you’re already up in the air 😂
What a fantastic view! I'd definitely like to have a go at that, and it certainly beats having to climb up a ladder to "get there". Thank you for sharing this with us all!
What a view! Even when I've used man-lifts in the past, nowhere near this height, the wobble is always disconcerting, yet I know the weight limit is probably 10x what i weigh or more... Still, what a great opportunity! I'd go up there in a heartbeat if i had the chance!!
My experience is the other way round, one you can’t get anymore. At school in the lower VIth, in Bolton, a group of us were taken down Chanters Colliery, in Atherton. This would have been about 1964. The cage descended 1832 feet to the Arley level and the fact that you couldn’t see anything, didn’t stop the fear - I still have clear memories of that visit - at the bottom, the double cage (it could carry coal tubs on two tiers) the 2 inch cable (I believe) stretched and the (deliberate by the engineer operating the winding engine) movement up and down made the history master vomit, much to our amusement. After our tour of the mine, that involved a further 200 foot descent on an inclined railway to the unbearably hot coal face, our return and ascent was very welcome, but the thought of ascending the 1832 feet in the rapidly ascending cage terrifying. I seem to remember it reached 50 feet per second - 30mph is 44 feet per second. A tower crane is more open - and unbelievably clean. 👍
I remember going up a construction lift up a 50 story building. The thing is just slapped on the side and rides up rails on one side of the lift. Grated mesh floor, not a smooth ride at all. This video gave me flashbacks watching it... :|
Not that anyone has to tell Clive, but I‘m compelled to say this in the comments section: *always* follow the safety rules when you‘re using the equipment like this, even when it feels like a PITA. Back when I was a student theater nerd, a friend of mine was at the top a crane, somewhat similar to this one although not nearly as high. They left off the outriggers. Because there was stuff in the way. You‘ve already guessed what happened, it tipped over tim-ber style, and he went rapidly from way up top to all the way down. He turned out all right, after a stay in the hospital, but his back has been bothering him for the rest of his life. It could have been much worse. The obvious moral of the story: when the safety measures are inconvenient, get the stuff out of the way and do it right.
If the outriggers are not extended and loaded it won't lift past first stage, If the limit switch on the outriggers fails while at height it stops working, Won't even lower from the control panel, Phoning your colleagues to come and operate the manual override is the source for extream hilarity, I know!
Sometimes one of the Texas tank watchers & of channels like Practical Engineering. Definitely have the impression that cranes are among the most dangerous machines that exist.. Safety is 100% critical and it often only takes a small error to bring the whole thing down..
Well done sir, about 5 year ago we were dropping a bit of electrical switchgear between houses in a narrow street in Bishopbriggs not Edinburgh castle the crane was the same type and I got offered a "shot" in the lift , after initially considering it I declined and let our equivalent weeclive have the hurl up and down( considered to be more expendable than me !). Amazing how such a large crane can literally fold itself down to about 60ft or so and just drive away
Well that was a fun video! Thank you Clive for sharing with us, I liked the view and on the way back down the shadows made it look like they were standing on poles floating there or something LOL.
I clearly recognise the words and the way Clive speaks but I think his pitch is a bit higher than usual. I wonder why. 😁 Just watching this made me feel my stomach twist. 🤣
The point where the wind becomes really audible in the recording - I think that would have been my limit! Thanks for a vicarious experience, the real one would definitely be too much.
I forgive you for recording vertically because you made reference to it in the video Thank you for giving us this ride where most of us would not want to do this
Oh my! Quite the ride. But where is the schematic? One moment please, while I lower the bucket to the ground! Thank you for sharing your adventures! Hugs! ❤
Brings back memories of when my dad used to work for Brandon Hire. Spent half my childhood messing around on nifty lifts, cherry pickers and various other platform lifts. Nothing like a strong gust of wind at 80ft to get the blood pumping 😂
I'm terrified of heights, but watching this wasn't so bad after watching tons of rooftop parkour 🥳 Still won't get me on that crane for love nor money 😱
Clive, if you ever have a concern that people don't like some of your videos, just remember this: Within a few hours, over 20k people joined you to ride up and down a crane lift, then go back to their usual business. 👍
this is one a few cases where vertical video works. Both top and bottom full of usefull content whikch other wise would have been lost and the panoramic spin makes up for any narrowness of the frame. I will allow it.
Wow you have entered my world here. Thats a Speirings sk1265-at6 self erecting tower crane. 35 meters high is where the lift stops and the wobble can be very disconcerting at first but you get used to it. Brilliant piece of machinery though. Watching it unfold is mezermizing every time.
Imagine being in a castle under siege and you see the enemy propping one of those up...
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I thought i had no fear of heights until i got into a window cleaner crane. The wobbling does not bolster your confidence. It helps if you have a job to do though. XD
been on holiday to a lovely hotel, 4 stories but the lift was quite violent and bounced when you hit the top floor, i've never been afraid of lifts before but it really made me want to take the stairs
At the beginning it sounded as it went much faster than it did. Anyways, cudos to you, Clive, as I had considerable anxiety from the view and knowing the sway of skylifts, masts and cranes at height. No matter my anxiety medication. XD
