OT - not for cleaning gutters...

Must have been a bloody big food order :-)

When they recently cordoned off some of the parking bays at our Tesco and erected dome steel structures I thought it was additional EV charging, but no, what they did was move the click & collect from the cabin at the back of the store and use delivery vehicles in the car-park instead.

There was a mobile crane parked nearby, and I think it's still there, perhaps in your case that "Frankencrane" was all the hire company had left. after all, #EveryLittleHelps

Possibly, but that sort of crane costs around £3000 a day to hire. So unless they were willing to take a loss I doubt they'd hire it out at less than usual charge.

That is a serious bit of kit. I bet it's fun driving it round a roundabout. My company once used what was said then to be the biggest mobile crane in Mexico, but it wasn't this size. The one we used plucked its counterweights off of a truck, and put them onto its own back. Once it was all assembled, the driver set it at full elevation, about 75-80 deg. from horizontal, put it into 'Extend' mode at full throttle, and got out of the cab and lit a cigarette. He had finished smoking it by the time the crane had finished extending its jib. I asked my American colleague if he had ever used one like it, and he said that he hadn't, but he hoped we didn't snag any passing aircraft on their way to Mexico City Airport.

Or a tall one.

GH

Here is the maker's video

Chris

Giraffe?

This all reminds me of the James Bond crane chase-sequence in the film Casino Royale, which sticks in my mind. I believe both were built by the same company, Comansa.

I was once following a white van, with a long ladder on its roof. It stopped at a T-junction, and when it moved off, it started to turn the corner, but the front section of the ladder got caught against a lamp-post on the far side. He was stuck, blocking the whole junction, could not go forward, traffic did not let him go backward. I turned round and left him to it.

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.