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by tomatotomato37 2597 days ago
Another interesting advatange of tower cranes is that they can grow/shrink themselves by using a special jig; that's how they're able to negotiate 200 story skyscrapers. That jigs tends to be too convulted to use for smaller projects, in which case they use a mobile crane as seen here.
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200 story skyscrapers? In some other universe?