Assembling a Tower Crane - Part 1 (of 2)

Watching the assembly of a #construction #towercrane timelapse-style with sped-up video and some actual time-lapses. This is part 1, which covers some of the preparations in the days and weeks prior to assembly, as well as placing the mast segments on the first day of the assembly.

At the beginning this includes some of the preparation work already seen in Weeks 2, 3 and 4 of the "Ⓢ Series" of videos on this channel, and then much more detail and previously-unseen video of the actual assembly (which was only covered briefly in Week 4's original video).

⏭️ 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀:

00:00 - Placing the bottom segment
02:12 - More rebar!
04:13 - Pouring the concrete
07:39 - Assembling the mobile crane
09:29 - Placing mast segments
28:02 - Pieces arriving for part 2
37:19 - Tightening the nuts
39:09 - Power connection
42:20 - Day's end
42:41 - Next video

🎵 Music licensed from Audio Network. You're welcome to listen to your own playlist instead if you prefer (there's no narration or dialogue in the video). In chronological order:

Anywhere With You 4 — Lewis Andrew, Chris Potter, Dominic Heneghan (3654/74)
Strawberry Soda Pop — Andy Cooper (3783/10)
New York Nights — Barrie Gledden, Steve Dymond, Jason Pedder (1506/4)
Paradise Dream — Martin Felix Kaczmarski (3594/4)
See Me 2 — Pete Masitti, Joshua Spacht (3519/42)
Fruit Salad — George Georgia (3687/5)
Addicted 2 — William Davies, Winston Francis, Dennis Bovell, John Kpiaye (2353/17)
I've Been Down This Road 3 — Michael Farkas, Teddy Weber, Seth Travins (3182/10)
1974 2 — Edward Lee Liggitt III (3633/8)
Sous La Pluie 2 — Ann De Renais, Ben Parry (3699/43)
When I See You Again 2 — Ariel Bui (3714/58)
Born To Drive — Terry Devine-King (1288/1)
What You Heard Ain't True 3 — Bob Bradley, Matt Parker, Ronnie Stokes (2821/35)
Migraine — Andy Cooper (3783/7)
Queen 2 — Jonathan Lloyd (2809/24)
Avenue Of The Stars — Ray Davies (1821/2)

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[RepayEvilWithGood]

Nice job. I had no idea exactly how much prep work went into setting up a tower crane! I simply fast-forwarded it and am looking for part 2 now.

[wtfbuddy]

Nice recap for the viewers and welcome back. Cheers

[mistymick]

Hat’s off to the media company great for positioning the camera so well. The weather was fantastic too. A bit cold but perfect for erecting the tower crane. The crane erectors were very professional and well organised. Great base electrical panel with plenty of room to wire up the mains cable and fixed at the perfect height. Looking forward to part 2. 🇦🇺

[FrankLowe]

Has a old construction worker I really enjoyed this. Memories thank you so much❤❤❤

[Tank-Battles]

Exciting start! Part 1 of the tower crane assembly process provides an intriguing glimpse into the intricate steps involved in erecting such a massive structure. Can't wait to see the rest unfold!

[frfrpr]

Killer soundtrack and visuals. Haven't had this much fun watching and listening to a video. Thanks

[normanjones]

So happy to be a mobile crane operator. Just wouldn't want to be a town crane operator because of the heights. Especially during strong winds, I've heard that the crane sways badly at times. Been an operator for close to thirty years and guess i always shall be. Love operating cranes.

[rogerbivins]

My 1st construction job was on a 10 story building in Nashville 30+ yrs ago.
The structure was built using a very large Manitowoc crawler and that operator was by far the loudest human on the planet which was handy because he regularly worked green riggers including me.
Once while swinging close to the building, the hoist cable slipped into a snap clevice that was securing a safety net around the 8th floor. No way to unhook it but for a volunteer to ride the headache ball straight up and unlatch it.
Cheers.

[alocin]

I always wanted to know how they put together the tower crane and how they dismental. This video is one of the best I have every seen. Hats off to these brave and skilled workers. What a great team work with full safety in vision and practice. Thank you so much for sharing this. I liked this video very much.

[kenmunozatmmrrailroad]

The machines AND the tradespeople are amazing 💪🏽

[MrHellenas]

Excellent video, with zoom ins, and showing all the details and all the steps. Please make more videos like that, for different phases of construction. LIke SOE, Foundation, substructure, superstructure phase, cocoon system, suspended scaffolds, demolitions, etc. Thanx. P.S. You dont need the silly music, natural sound will be best

[gilb]

it is the firs time that i see so many little detail about a crane assembly
Thank !

[JamesHawkeYouTube]

I especially liked the two guys walking inside their boxes at 34:48 :)

[johnfnielsen]

Very interesting, I love the racks for the bolts, right where they need to be and not just tossed in a bucket, Very intuitive thinking in the design

[jetjock]

Thanks for compiling an in depth look into such an interesting topic. I’ve enjoyed both complete build series as well.

[constructionwatcher]

It's great to see you again. This is a very nice recompilation of the process. Thanks.

[JeroddDentonBock]

This is my boys and I in San Francisco!! Local 377 and 378 Ironworkers

[jottasantos]

Congratulations on your professionalism!
Beautiful work!
A big hug from Brazil!

[authorjack]

It's amazing that only four bolts hold this entire structure together!

[pavelvilsov]

how smoothly they work, it is very interesting to observe such processes in general, fitting-adjustment-marking work, = this is a very important noticeable moment to which they devote a lot of time . The music design of the video is top, it turned out very cool 😃😃😍😎👍