Project 2022: Pantheon
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Nice photo. Saves me out of the way driving?
It's from a comment on BGW's Facebook post.
It's normally a good idea to share when a photo isn't yours and where you got it @Jason
I must know if Pantheon is fully erect.
the track looked fully up the spike to me it was starting to get dark so I couldn't snag a picture
I guess we'll get to see better tomorrow the Park is open tomorrow the 23rd
BGW mentioned this is the largest crane they’ve ever had on site - is there a reason for this or something special about this coaster that requires a crane taller than that used to build Mach tower or griffon?
Or is this crane being reused for a certain very tall coaster across the river next year ?
Or is this crane being reused for a certain very tall coaster across the river next year ?
I don't know too much about cranes, but I'd guess that it would be prohibitively expensive to hold onto a crane like that unless they were ready to erect the next structure immediately.
I think it's the biggest crane not because of shifting to Project 2021, but rather building out over that slope requires a crane with some reach. In order to get some reach with a crane, you need height.
This, and probably a bit of economics.
If a small crane costs (just making up numbers) $400 a day to rent and operate; and a larger crane costs $450 but means they can keep it in one spot, then if $50 x operating days is less than the cost to build N extra pad sites, then it is more economical to go with a larger crane
It's kinda funny, I work with a guy painting his house, and he did a boom lift with 35 foot reach rather than a scissor lift at 45 for that very reason. It's so true that economics play a huge role.
I think the extra height has more to do with how big this coaster actually is. The crane needs to be able to stay in a central location and reach most of the places they are placing track. The extra height/length will be helpful.
Out of curiosity I found a picture of the crane I took and from what I could see it's rented from WO Grubb. Upon zooming in on the picture I could pretty much make out a decal of the model of the crane even though it was fuzzy from zooming in. So went to Grubb's website and found it's a crawler crane and from the number in the model that I could make out the only one they show that matches is the Terex/Demag CC-1500 which is a 330 ton crane. There is no mention as to how much this costs to rent but just a pure guess based on some other rental figures I found I'll guess it's around $15K/month. And that doesn't include delivery and setup along with removal.
So even if it's not that expensive if your math is close, if the contractor doesn't have many of these cranes but several projects that require it's use, then they're not going to want to let it sit idle and lose the business.
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