JUL 19, special event: rooftop crane dismantling, finishing the job! (part 2)

   a) Reprise of material posted on July 19 in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, very stable genius #9 (wordplay)
2021: at heart, dobutamine for imaging (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, Alzheimer's (poem)
2023: duplication, cootchie-coo (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 19, 2024): 

In yesterday's post we showed how a large retrieval crane was erected on the street and used to remove pieces of a smaller rooftop crane; the latter had been used for a year to hoist construction materials, and was repositioned progressively on the topmost floor of the nearby building as it was constructed skyward to over 30 stories. This morning, the large ladder-like yellow upper tower for the rooftop crane was brought down to street level.

Today, we'll see the retrieval crane used to remove more temporary pieces from the top of the new building, and then all the cranes will be disassembled, loaded on large trucks and carried away. 

  yellow tower supporting the rooftop crane
brought to earth using the retrieval crane
(large red vertical structure on the right) 

additional pieces of the rooftop construction crane
progressively brought to street-level for transport

control module for the rooftop crane
lowered towards the street

pieces of the rooftop crane are packed
 on a flat-bed truck for removal  

the large retrieval crane is then brought flat 
for packing up, with the aid of a smaller working crane

early evening: only the base of the retrieval device
and its smaller helper-crane remain on site

9 o'clock on the second morning:
all equipment removed, the street reopened

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".