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At long last it looks as if work has started removing the cranes from the top of the mountain, they have started work dismantling the left hand side one this morning.
Looks as if they will beat them taking the one down in Nuevo. :o :o

Thats the first arm taken off, more following ??? ???

UPDATE 11.17
First tower half down. :D :D

UPDATE 11.30
First crane now gone, 3 more to go, things are improving  :D :D

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 11:30:57 AM
UPDATE 11.30
First crane now gone, 3 more to go, things are improving  :D :D

I suppose you are sat in the sun, drinking tea, casually watching the workers?   ;D

Quote from: Deso on April 21, 2014, 11:32:39 AM

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 11:30:57 AM
UPDATE 11.30
First crane now gone, 3 more to go, things are improving  :D :D

I suppose you are sat in the sun, drinking tea, casually watching the workers?   ;D

Yes correct, its a hard life. :D

What happened to the up-dates. is it lunch break. That'll be mañana then  :o

Quote from: woe10 on April 21, 2014, 15:25:26 PM
What happened to the up-dates. is it lunch break. That'll be mañana then  :o

Nothing happening since the last update, the crane that was dismantling is still there but no activity, could be Siesta. ;) ;)

UPDATE 16.30
2 men now up the top of the next crane, no safety precautions (doesnt surprise me :o), mobile crane now moved nearer. :D :D

Its scary watching these 2 men up there, the crane is swinging round as they are trying to attach the mobile crane. :o :o

One man just stood on the top of the concrete ballast blocks trying to attach the hook, wow :-\ :-\

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 16:41:43 PM
One man just stood on the top of the concrete ballast blocks trying to attach the hook, wow :-\ :-\

We need pictures!!!   :o

Quote from: Deso on April 21, 2014, 17:02:47 PM

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 16:41:43 PM
One man just stood on the top of the concrete ballast blocks trying to attach the hook, wow :-\ :-\

We need pictures!!!   :o

Will try later on, they seem to be having problems separating the tower sections on the second crane a lot of banging going on, although the arm is completely off

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 19:02:21 PM

Quote from: Deso on April 21, 2014, 17:02:47 PM

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 16:41:43 PM
One man just stood on the top of the concrete ballast blocks trying to attach the hook, wow :-\ :-\

We need pictures!!!   :o

Will try later on, they seem to be having problems separating the tower sections on the second crane a lot of banging going on, although the arm is completely off

I would think the bolts are pretty rusty by now and will certainly take some shifting.

I thought Captain might have been out with his camera, he only has to lean over his side wall and they are in full view.   :D

I have been watching from a distance Deso ;) :D

My son has put some photos on his facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.underwood.75?fref=ts (https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.underwood.75?fref=ts)

Quote from: Captain Sensible on April 21, 2014, 21:25:47 PM
I have been watching from a distance Deso ;) :D

My son has put some photos on his facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.underwood.75?fref=ts (https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.underwood.75?fref=ts)

Maybe they will all be gone by Wednesday??

The one they have taken down looks in remarkably good condition considering.

Did your daughter pass on my thanks for the loan of the ladders? I was that busy I forgot about the carnival although we did pop round and watch some of the parade before we had to go home.

Much appreciated and I still have all my fingers.   :D

She did, Deso :)

I'm glad you followed all the H & S advice given on the forum ;)

Quote from: Deso on April 21, 2014, 17:02:47 PM

Quote from: Globetrotter on April 21, 2014, 16:41:43 PM
One man just stood on the top of the concrete ballast blocks trying to attach the hook, wow :-\ :-\

We need pictures!!!   :o

Here goes, not excellent quality.  :D :D
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/1.jpg)
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/2.jpg)
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/3.jpg)
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/4.jpg)
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/6-1.jpg)

The next step should be to Dynamite the unfinished apartment blocks  8)

They were busy until dusk trying to separate the main column lots of hammering but they gave up in the end, well at least one has gone, 2 and a half to go.

UPDATE Tuesday 22nd
After much hammering (and cursing I guess) since dawn crane no. 2 has now been removed. :D :D

The wonders of WD40?

Quote from: lionfish on April 22, 2014, 11:50:45 AM
The wonders of WD40?

Lol, and the wonders of a lump hammer. :D

This better than Coronation street this  ;D.

Keep up the great work Globetrotter, i'm hooked on the progress.  :D :D

Quote from: KWC on April 22, 2014, 12:46:47 PM
This better than Coronation street this  ;D.

Keep up the great work Globetrotter, i'm hooked on the progress.  :D :D

Lol
Thank you, not much happening at the moment, the mobile crane is still up near the 2nd base but that crane has gone so guess its siesta time, more updates as they happen. :D :D

UPDATE 17.45
Work now started on crane No. 4, missed out No.3. :D :D

Them cranes have been our weather vain and good ones to, now what I suppose we will have to put a flag up for wind direction.

UPDATE
Top part of No.4 gone now, only the tower left, each one seems to take longer I guess due to corrosion of the fixings. ;) ;)

The 2 blokes who are up there remind me of Fred Dibnah and his mate Harry who used to go up chimneys all over Lancashire with a ladder a couple of ropes and a lump hammer. The good old days before the health and safety boys shut the UK down.

Quote from: ashworth on April 23, 2014, 13:30:09 PM
The 2 blokes who are up there remind me of Fred Dibnah and his mate Harry who used to go up chimneys all over Lancashire with a ladder a couple of ropes and a lump hammer. The good old days before the health and safety boys shut the UK down.

Yes I remember watching him.
The last bit of No. 3 crane is just being hammered right now, not entirely gone yet ;) ;)

Quote from: ashworth on April 23, 2014, 13:30:09 PM
The 2 blokes who are up there remind me of Fred Dibnah and his mate Harry who used to go up chimneys all over Lancashire with a ladder a couple of ropes and a lump hammer. The good old days before the health and safety boys shut the UK down.

Fred would'nt have bothered with a lump hammer he'd a slung a couple of acy bottles and a cutting torch on his back and the next thing you know a voice in the distance shouting;-

BELOW

Quote from: fatherted on April 23, 2014, 15:50:04 PM

Quote from: ashworth on April 23, 2014, 13:30:09 PM
The 2 blokes who are up there remind me of Fred Dibnah and his mate Harry who used to go up chimneys all over Lancashire with a ladder a couple of ropes and a lump hammer. The good old days before the health and safety boys shut the UK down.

Fred would'nt have bothered with a lump hammer he'd a slung a couple of acy bottles and a cutting torch on his back and the next thing you know a voice in the distance shouting;-

BELOW

Think they are trying not to destroy them and keep them for better times, cough, cough. :'( :'(

UPDATE 24/04/2014
Work started on the last crane, arms are now off, just the tower remaining. :D :D

As of lunchtime today, the last bit of old crane has been removed.
Still using the new mobile crane to move a few bits about, but those eyesores have now all gone, hopefully all clear by the end of the day.
Another improvement for Caleta, one of many recent improvements..

Fred Dibnah - a convoy of steam engines closed Bolton town centre as they escorted his body to be interned, another GREAT English man

Quote from: Mr G on April 24, 2014, 14:08:21 PM
As of lunchtime today, the last bit of old crane has been removed.
Still using the new mobile crane to move a few bits about, but those eyesores have now all gone, hopefully all clear by the end of the day.
Another improvement for Caleta, one of many recent improvements..

Great News, can't wait till I get back out again and look at the mountain. :D

Quote from: Can the Man on April 25, 2014, 12:46:44 PM

Quote from: Mr G on April 24, 2014, 14:08:21 PM
As of lunchtime today, the last bit of old crane has been removed.
Still using the new mobile crane to move a few bits about, but those eyesores have now all gone, hopefully all clear by the end of the day.
Another improvement for Caleta, one of many recent improvements..

Great News, can't wait till I get back out again and look at the mountain. :D

If you cant wait here it is in all its glory, sorry the pic is not great quality. ;D ;D
(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt281/silegnagnusmas/finished.jpg)

Thanks Globetrotter  :) :)

It seems almost a shame to see the cranes go - while they stood, there always seemed hope that the development might get finished. Now it will probably just stand there as a testament to somebody's failed greed, and investors losses. It'll take probably take tens of thousands of years for nature to reclaim the site.

Here's a way to get rid of them. DYNAMITE  8)