That is one massive crane!
...I'm trying to find a coule of pics. from when I was doing H.A.T. of two new knucklebooms at MacGreggor in Kristansand years ago. We needed a client witness prior to shipping from Norway to Finland. Not as big in capacity but
very high pedestals. We went up and to the end of the boom. I was not very happy -a) I'm not good at heights b) there was perilous less edge protection going from the crane king up to the boom and c) walking the boom the hand rails are
bare minimal -it was awful weather, torrential rain and thunderstorms. I needed new underpants when I got back down. The MacGregor supervisor I was with was well used to it of course! No harnesses for either of us which would have been
mandatory if we were in the UK
if they would even let a client up there. That was just on MacGregors scrappy test barge in the harbour which was well used and battered to pieces but with thunder and lightning all overhead and rain like it came from a fire hose. I went up on a couple of knucklebooms since but
just to the cab and that was far enough ever since, going back down on the regular ladder was bad enough!
...We actually paid 1M NOK
reluctantly to have two knucklebooms painted. An extortionate amount at the time but fair play -most of it was actually scaffolding to get up and along there rather than the prep and paint. They are very big things once ready to plant and on the delivery skids (they came ready to plant on deck for us) awaiting delivery by heavy lift.
I'm annoyed I can't find the pics of the H.A.T. in Kristiansand now to share with you -they must be buried somewhere on other hard drives. They might have helped with some top details.
Rich