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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I still can't figure out whey they didn't just take them down the same way they go up. They could have used a truck crane from the sides of the building to take them apart piece by piece and set them down nicely.

One of them was listing a bit, so it may have been a bit more tricky.

Connections may have been bound up. Might could have cut it with a torch but that probably means more guys working in close proximity to an unstable environment for more time.

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Connections may have been bound up. Might could have cut it with a torch but that probably means more guys working in close proximity to an unstable environment for more time.

This is generally the case in an accident or collapse where mangling occurs. In this situation there wasn't any damage above the tower. The second crane may not have been damaged at all.

I'm betting it has something to do with the fact that this was an emergency no-bid deal, for $5,000,000

From the looks of it. That could of been much worse. Likely the whole building is compromised. Or at least a large percentage of it I would guess.

I did not read the articles in this thread.

recent drone video after cranes were demolished

https://wgno.com/2019/10/30/ne...ws-extent-of-damage/

New drone footage from the scene of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse shows the extent of the devastation nearly three weeks after the fatal collapse.

One of the twin tower cranes that once stood over the construction site can be seen embedded in Rampart Street.

Officials orchestrated a complicated implosion of the cranes using strategically placed explosives.

That simultaneous implosion was supposed to have brought the crane towers, each of which weigh in at 145,000 pounds, directly down onto the remains of the building.

Instead, one crane speared down into Rampart, causing extensive damage to the main thoroughfare.

The bodies of two of the three workers killed in the catastrophic October 12 collapse remain buried under tons of rubble.

NOFD chief Tim McConnell said yesterday that he is overseeing the process of bringing in contractors to begin removing the remains from the building.

"The recovery of the victims, we've made that a priority for them, so any plan they have has to include whether it's even feasible to get the remains, and their plan has to address how they would go about doing that," McConnell said.

It will be a long time before the bodies are safely removed, McConnell said, and even longer before the rest of the building is taken down.



I don't know construction so this may be wrong, but note the 3 steel structures on the top floor.

It looks like they acted like a hinge for the collapse. The flooring pieces at their edge fell down vertically. They seemed to have stopped the collapse going further back into the building. At the left side of the bldg. you can see that the collapse was going deeper.

Those three towers are just the elevator equipment penthouses. They had nothing to do with the concrete floors collapsing. If the building had no elevators, then yes, it’s possible the collapse would’ve been worse.

Chief McConnel is an idiot and a tool. Much of NOFD can’t stand him because he has his head buried in the politicians ass instead of taking care of his dept

Looks like the City Building inspectors have been falsifying reports

This is going to get VERY interesting

The Inspector in question has hired a Lawyer...

https://www.fox8live.com/2020/...they-were-not-there/

Corruption? In New Orleans????

I'm dumbfounded.

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Originally posted by snwghst:
Looks like the City Building inspectors have been falsifying reports

This is going to get VERY interesting

The Inspector in question has hired a Lawyer...

https://www.fox8live.com/2020/...they-were-not-there/