Link-Belt hydraulic crane - at rest by goodoleboy
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Captured 5/24/14, very early morning, adjacent to our nearby Interstate 5 freeway widening project, due for completion in 2016.
Continuing on my lengthy odyssey to record everything connected to this construction effort, I came upon this homage to mechanical engineering. Just one of several models of Link-Belt hydraulic cranes in its inventory.
Allaismalardik.
Comments (7)
durleybeachbum
I should love a go with this!
Cyve
Excelent captures !!!
MrsRatbag
How amazingly cool! I don't know how these things work, but it looks like there are counterweights at the backside, presumably to help it keep upright while picking something up with the business end of the crane? Excellent series here Harry, great detail!
jocko500
cool looking
claude19
I don't know if it's the majesty of this hydraulic crane or your talent of photographer I like very much...but it's excellent !!!
debbielove
At least I now know what its called! lol Thanks for the shots mate! Rob
anahata.c
As long as I'm commenting 'backwards' rather than forward, this morning, I'll continue with my current direction. I'll pick up where I left off, last time, next time. (Complicated sentence, lol, but hopefully you know what I meant..) To claude19's comment, it's both, the crane itself is quite impressive; but what makes the shots is you. The first shot is a big desolate thing: The sky is really gray and the ground so desert-like, even though there's a bridge back there. The upheaval in front of the bridge opening makes it look like this is after a war---a very desolate shot. And the crane sits in its way-bright red, but far enough back that it doesn't take away from the desolation. And it shoots into that sky. Your slight tilt adds to the feeling of being after a catastrophe of some kind. And the other two shots show us the crane and then the body: The crane is extended a bit, and there's pull on the cable which is a nice touch. Then the bottom shot shows the strange grace of such a massive beast, and how it sits on pure sand---I mean, remove that bridge and this could a desert. And it has these "feet"---I assume anchors of some kind, to keep the body still as the crane reaches into space and carries loads. I don't know what they are, but those four "feet" on the corners of the body are amazing to look at. A fascinating threesome, and more fine reporting of this huge event---ie, the tearing up and building-back of a major roadway. This series has the feeling of another planet sometimes; and it resonates with visual desolation and dinosaurs.