UKs largest crane
The UKs largest crane is coming to town and will arrive in Newport aboard 48 lorries 
(thats going to mess up my trip to and from work 🙄 )
The crane will be used to help in the completion of a footbridge across the river Usk
Trying to find pics of this beast was tuff,but I found a couple ➡
I think this is the same one ➡
http://www.addenbrookes.org.uk/news/news2005/sep/eau_craning_290905.html
And a pic of a model replica ➡
I will try and grab a few shots of the thing going up
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Huge 😳 , that's, as you say, going to cause problems for quite a while.
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going to cause problems for quite a while
Roger that!
You might want to call your boss ahead of time!!!
Good Luck!! 😀
lol!Gigantic!
on the other hand,you could have a good excuse for being late... 😂
Can't imagine what it would cost to hire that beast. 🙄
Looks like it will not be going up tomorrow after all 😳
Drove past today and only 2 sections of the crane have been put together.
Loads of activity there,and a few smaller cranes waiting to put it all together.
The box girder constrution being the giant crane
I still can quite work it out yet 🙄
Pics from a camera phone when anything good starts Ill take take a proper camera
And what it should look like
More as and when 😉
big 😳 😳 😳
That's a hell of a crane 😀
How does it turn? It's all wheels! You guys don't have room over there on your roads for something like that to turn any corners! 😳 Cool machine.
I lied 
The box girder section is to support the back facing mast of the bridge
Pics to follow soon
Ok a few more pics
1st this morning and the "back" mast is up and supported by the large box girder construction on the left.The front mast being positioned for lifting
2 pics of the crane
better one
And a final one for now,tonight from a distance.Back mast supported(left)front mast nearly in position
And what it should look like soon
The pics are still from the phone as I cant find the camera(found the battery and charger 🙄 )
Well, i have the same crane, in sacale, not the withe one, but the yellow one, ensambling it, and it´s very big!, i can now imagin the size of the other one.
is HUGE!!! 😳
Well its been under a week since they started and they have now begun putting the walkway across
I have found my camera 😉 no pics yet, but here is a link to a local newspaper with some photos(click next results for more and click photo to enlarge)
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