• Gigantic Floating Crane Arrives in Baltimore

    From 68hx.1805@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 29 20:48:10 2024
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa, alt.engineering

    This is apparently the largest floating crane on
    the east coast.

    The PROBLEM though is WHERE TO START ???

    The steel bridge sections are HUGE and kinda folded
    and coiled around each other. It's like a game of
    Pick-up-Sticks, pull on the wrong place and the
    whole thing is likely to move violently, endangering
    all nearby. They don't need a huge crane ALSO at
    the bottom of the channel ....

    Perhaps the best tact is to skip trying to "cut off
    bits at a time" ??? Use drones - air and underwater -
    to place explosive charges on each sub-section and
    then cut the thing to bits all at the same instant
    while keeping everybody FAR away.

    THEN the crane can pull up each smaller section
    with far less risk of 'interactions'.

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