Image 31
You can see the tool used to erect the mast (tower) on the car top.
Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
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Image 31
You can see the tool used to erect the mast (tower) on the car top.
Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
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New York City, New York, U.S.A.
If you look at the larger picture you will see "t-bars" protruding from the hoist tower.
Are they there to prevent the traveling cable from one car swaying into the runway of the other car?
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New York City, New York, U.S.A.
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Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
A double-decker top-of-car work platform...you don't see that very often...
...plus a huge side opening door for the bottom landing...what a "ride"!
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Floor 43 in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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Orbital Joe's ride...
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Orbital Joe's operating panel...
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Top of the mast on a duplex installation with counterweights
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Trump Tower in Chigago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Are there 4 hoists in use here...or just 3?
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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I wonder if it rains a lot here...
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I wonder what the "side car" is all about - China
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New York City, New York, U.S.A.
These are the hoists used while erecting the M.I.B. Building (Men In Black Building)...
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Not much in the way of landing gates on this installation.
Herbie thinks this is somewhere in The Netherlands.
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A rather small car here - Wiesbaden, Germany
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This is a construction hoist of some sort in Brazil.
You can see two sheaves at the top of the support structure.
Unfortunately, no image of the actual hoist car or platform.
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Different looking hoists...I wish we had a nice clear close-up of the cars.
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
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Three drive units on this hoist
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You can see the counterweight rope reels on the car top
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A concrete counterweight - Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
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I have never seen a construction hoist car top as neat and clean as this one
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Rather precarious looking scaffolding bridging the hoist to the building.
Hangzhou, China
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This is a service elevator at the Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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