JUL 18, special event: dismantling of a nearby rooftop crane (ringside seats!)

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 18 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, pelicatessen (illustrated poem)
2021: amphibians, bufotoxin (illustrated poem) 
2022: funny bones, heterotopic ossification (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Eastern funky towns (wordplay maps)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 18, 2024): 

almost unnoticed, the retrieval crane
appears just before midnight
(diagonal structure in foreground)

retrieval crane, fully assembled
on Jarvis St. next day at 6 a.m. 

retrieval crane, control pod at street level

 retrieval crane, its working midsection
 at 15-20 stories above the street

grabbing the untethered unit
 of the rooftop crane

carefully lowering the rooftop crane's
ladder-like structure
(Toronto's busy Jarvis Street
blocked off on this Sunday morning) 

lowering proceeds calmly
on this windless day

approaching the level of the helper crane
(lower left), about 15 stories above the street

 

ladder-like unit from the rooftop crane

soon gets set down on Jarvis street

There are more striking photos of the process of dismantlement of all the cranes, and their subsequent transport off-site. Stay tuned as these will be displayed, and the street  reopened tomorrow. 

Other issues of interest to readers who live in deep downtown locations can be found in illustrated poems on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE for the collection entitled "Urban Concerns".