The Bay Area is a great place to be for the girl who loves cranes. There are the iconic cranes at the Port of Oakland that look like Star Wars At-At Walkers and the giant blue crane that was built specifically for the Bay Bridge repair. Big cranes, small cranes, I love 'em all. My dream construction project involves a crane on a barge. So when we switched from a traditional stick framed roof to a truss roof at the English Tudor house, a special added bonus was delivery by crane.
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I know what you mean about cranes. I am not a big fan of trusses over framing, but I actually love setting trusses with a crane when the opportunity arises.
It's not like that woman who married the Eiffel Tower, is it?!
As someone not involved in construction, cranes are still a backdrop to my life, as they are to everyone's now. There's always a crane on everyone's horizon. I think they look pretty good in a dark photograph, symbolic of modernity and all that.
This is the crane my grandfather-in-law built:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santander.Monumento.Grua.jpg
Every time I check back things look better and better here.
I LOVE cranes. On a few bored occassions I have taken my camera and driven to the Port of Oakland to sit there and photograph them. It makes me very happy :)
Is that a crane or a stork? Or in this case one in the same?
Fred Flintstone worked one in Bedrock City...so that's good enough for me!!!
(tee hee)
MsBurb
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