crane

That would cause the business to fold like an origami crane. Happily, it doesn't seem to have that problem.

When SpaceX recovers capsules, they send a barge with a crane, a single crew boat, a couple of inflatables, and a P3 Orion. [1] That's pretty Lean.

I actually sat in on a meeting where the sky crane was first being discussed. I remember thinking to myself at the time that there was no way that it would ever work.

The bombers were stripped of all usable parts, then chopped into five pieces by a 13,000-pound steel blade dropped from a crane. The guillotine sliced four times on each plane, severing the wings and leaving the fuselage in three pieces.

So you keep them spinning, even if its really slow like 10 RPM, all the time, forever, unless you've got a crane on site to replace. And boilers blow up if you heat them too quickly, same problem with parts at different temps.

The plant is built like that so spent fuel can be lifted out of the reactor and placed directly in the pool using one crane. A more secure spent-fuel pool would have required more elaborate fuel handling, thus a more expensive design.

, they say "A crane, a crane operator" and I say "Ok, the crane company will be in touch." Now they are going to achieve the same thing, "Get the car lifted off the street" but it's not about them, its about getting what is needed to be done, actually done.

When I looked into buying a couple hundred, having them shipped about sixteen miles, it was going to cost hundreds per block to truck it out plus renting a crane to unload/place them. Those are tiny blocks with almost no rebar, no engineering, no preload, nothing.

Another guy who was out that day coaching jumped in the water in full clothes to help me get it back upright and took her in by powerboat while I sailed the sinking boat back to the crane to get it pulled out. The point is, unlike other sports when shit hit the fan, there is no time out.

Think about it for a second: if somebody offered you a shipping container full of goods, and said giant metal box looked like it had fallen from a crane, would you buy it? Hell no, at least not without inspecting every piece inside for damage and a hefty discount for my troubles.

Beyond keeping up export restrictions and avoiding bad installations I can see it as a way of avoiding warranty fraud with user error or crane accidents.

Staging carpet for example, when you start carpeting its rolls and rolls and rolls of carpet, lifted by crane to various floors, and later cut to order. If you install the floor with all the carpeting already installed at the factory you've managed to parallelize floor construction and finishing.

It's not that playing with dangerous objects ought to be encouraged, it's that it there's nothing wrong with a little dynamite now and then for removing stumps when the alternative is lifting the grinder to the top of the cliff with a crane. All that really matters is acting in accord with the fact that, yes, we're using dynamite.

A high-res panorama of Mars, taken by a semi-autonomous robot that was landed via rocket sky crane, transmitted 14 light minutes across space, then transmitted on demand through a global information network to my computer. And people say the future isn't what it was made out to be.

The first stage is back in your hands in a matter of hours, where it can be transported back to the assembly building using a simple crane or other specialized equipment. And it can be inserted into the processing workflow much faster than if it had been out in the ocean, and with less overhead of having to clean it, refurbish it, inspect it, etc.

You will get irritated everytime you see a crane or bulldozer or escalator or elevator ... Your girlfriend will hate you for pointing out ways that those things can easily or suddenly accelerate large masses and cause disasters, and how easy it would be to prevent that.

You can ship a container from Canada to Niger and know that when it gets off a ship they will have a crane to pick it up, a barcode to scan and lookup its contents, the right power plugs to power it if it is refrigerated, a way to identify the destination, owner, etc. Fascinating stuff.