I know what I want for Christmas. A Tower Crane!

Just think of the possibilities.

Can’t be bothered to drag the bins down the gravel driveway from the back of the house? Tower Crane!

Football booted over into the grumpy neighbors garden? They’re not throwing it back – Tower Crane!

Missis can’t be bothered to walk the 1/2 mile to work when our garden backs onto the school? Tower Crane!

New dirty sex pond delivered, need to remove the side gate? No – Tower Crane!

Literally cannot think of a single ownership drawback.

“mate, i have a heavy thing i need lifting over a high thing, could you pop round for a few hours with your crane and help me out on Saturday morning. ”

Thats the downside… You’ll be the mate with a crane

Nah, popping round is a job for a Mobile Crane. Like I said, no downsides.

This is a 1MW pump motor being lifted at work on a weekend job I was supervising 18 months ago. Definitely worth going to work for a big lift.

I know that, you know that.

To “that mate” a crane is a crane and its really mot that big a favour.

Swap crane gor van to see what mean

Oh, I have a van! (And I really don’t mind people asking, my family and friend tend not to take the piss).

Self building ?

I’d be more than happy with a mini digger, I can’t fit a crane in the garage.

Difficult to wrap.

It’s just folding paper and taping it, what’s the problem!?

Helicopter, does the same thing but with the added benefits of being easier to wrap and fit in the garage.

Mate asks for a favour, just say it’s too cloudy, wet, hot or dry.

It’s just folding paper and taping it, what’s the problem!?

Yeah, and mainly box sections if wrapped before assembly, which are always easiest..

**** ace Crimbo pressie. Imagine how much fun you can have lighting it up, well, like a Christmas tree!

It’d be annoying though if the missus got you one for Christmas. After you’ve spent thankless hours teetering on ladders and step ladders trying to get the front of the house looking like a Happy Shopper Santa’s grotto because that’s what she expects. Not to mention all the shenanigans getting the angel onto the top of the bloody tree. And then you unwrap a (annoyingly well wrapped) tower crane and your in-laws are chuckling “Could have used that last week eh Brian, saved yourself 9 hours in A&E..” and they’ve drunk all your scotch.

On the plus side you get to spend the whole year hanging out in the cab at 150ft having promised you’ll move that bush at the weekend. Definitely

Difficult to wrap.

Yeah, and not much of a ‘SURPRISE!’ either…

Takes all the fun out of it!

Question – why do we (in the UK) not use the small cranes I see in Europe cities a lot. They look like small tower cranes operated from the ground. Every building site I see in Europe seems to have one but I never see them in the UK. Is it just our method of building doesn’t need a crane?

We have hod carriers instead. Uk houses have brick walls and timber floors which can carried in mulple small amounts which doesn’t really work out with concrete as it makes a mess and takes a long time or a LOT of people.

However, to compensate our scaffold is in comparison brilliant.

and they’ve drunk all your scotch.

We call my brother in law ‘The Exorcist” because every time he visits he rids the house of spirits.

Just think of the possibilities

No agonising for hours.

“What tyres for a clay site?” like you’d have to with a mobile crane 🙂

BASE jumpers would become a pain, “Oi, get off moi crane!”

However, to compensate our scaffold is in comparison brilliant.

Needs a mostly after comparison to be more accurate. I have inspected and condemned some very poor scaffolds.

OP Only one fly in the ointment is all the ladder climbing necessary to get to the cab to do all those chores. You’ll need a ticketed banks-person too! There are mobile tower cranes with lifts which might suit better.

@tthew another benefit – a marvellous vantage point to launch bottles of wee at neighbours who displease you, for example by complaining about your crane.

You think climbing into a tower crane is easier than putting the bins out?

I was thinking more of the small remote control ones that db mentioned, so no climbing needed. I mean, a full size one in a suburban street would just be daft!

Maybe get a small mobile tower crane for helping load ebikes onto roof bar carriers at your local trail centre as per the issues in the other thread.

You could set up a bungee jump for the local kids, launch small gliders off the top… the possibilities are endless

Zimmerei/carpentry firm I used to work for in Germany had a crane that you could tow along behind a 7,5t and operate from the ground. Was brilliant.

Just imagine, you have a crane and want to pick up your crane with another crane….

Or buy one of these, less space intensive, you can lift all sorts of small things round the house.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/liebherr-crawler-crane-lr-13000-42146?age-gate=grown_up