Telescope crane

[Jakov Minić]

One of the reasons why I am not joining Joost tonight in Leuven is the fact that I was working late last night.
A cooling unit failed in a building that I am maintaining and new one was ordered as a replacement.
The cooling unit depicted here as a green ghost just above the building weighs about 2300kg.
The height of the building is about 60m.
It took the crane company two hours to assemble the crane, the hoisting lasted 10 minutes and then another two hours to pack it up
It was an impressive scene to say the least.
The cooling unit was connected to the installations, the water was pressurized, and the cooling unit was u and running about 10 minutes after the crane was disassembled and packed for transport
Shot with D750 and one of my favorites the 16/3.5 fish-eye.

[Jakov Minić]

Coincidentally, this is exactly the place from where Nicole and I will depart for Leuven tomorrow
And the view from the top

[BW]

Impreessive lift Jakov! I love these kind of operations. Always exciting to see if the calculations adds up. The 16 3,5 seem like an fish to catch

[stenrasmussen]

So ghosts actually exist! Very cool "documentary" shots Jakov.

[Joost Bollens]

View from the top is amazing!

[Mongo]

Mongo had never before considered using a fisheye for this sort of documentary report. Must admit, it reports just as well and with some added visual interest. Quite enjoyed looking at these and the short story behind them.

wonder if we sent you to Italy with that lens - you may be able to straighten up the tower of Pisa with it. You would perform an architectural marvel (but you would be very unpopular).

[Anthony]

Impressive use of the fisheye, to enhance the image not just as a gimmick.

[elsa hoffmann]

I especially like the shot from above. And the wide angle is super cool

[Akira]

Apparently everyone did admirable job!  The shots are impressive for sure, but the last one is definitely not for an acrophobia...

[Peter Connan]

Even the crane's support truck is a serious piece of engineering!

Great series, but especially the last one.

[Erik Lund]

Great series 

[golunvolo]

I like cranes and you know your fisheye. Great series, specially 3# for me.
  And 4#

[Jakov Minić]

Børge, the calculations worked like a charm. It was an expensive endeavor, and all the workers seemed like they knew what they were doing

Thanks, Sten! Ghosts do exists

Joost, the view from the top is the A12 highway that runs all the way to Germany via Utrecht and Arnhem. You can also see the A4 leading to the left to Amsterdam and to the right to Rotterdam, but you probably know that

Mongo, thank you so much for your kind words. I was thinking of which lens to use and knowing the size of the building I chose the fish-eye. It did distort the building but any other wide angle would I suppose. You can see that I was pretty far away from the building in the first shot, on the other side of a four lane street, and I could hardly catch the top. The fish-eye recorded the cranes and the building miniature

Thank you Anthony! I never considered a fish-eye to be gimmick at all

Elsa, you are super cool!

Thank you Akira! The guys were admirable for sure!

Thanks Peter! It was nice to see how a "small crane" was used to build up the big one with all the supporting parts. They didn't need any police to block the traffic, they simply parked their tiny vehicles and left the lights on

Thank you, great Dane!

Thanks Paco!!!

Here is a "close-up" of men at work.

[Thomas Stellwag]

great series  - as already mentioned from others, the use of a fish is uncommon for these scenes thxs for showing us that it works extraordinary