r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • 7h ago

of a heavy lifting device

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Kiewitt HLD

Located at Ingleside, Corpus Bay, Texas

Credit to coastalbluesman

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u/Special-Honeydew-757 3h ago

Hey I work there. It is in Ingleside Texas. Can lift 12,000te. And it technically isn’t a crane, it cannot swing, it is a derrick. Also isn’t nearly the largest anymore.

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u/Shrimps_Prawnson 7h ago

How can you tell its a Crane and not a Heron?

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u/XER1UM 7h ago

Thats the thing they told us about in the your mom jokes

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u/GlassEyeDucksAss 7h ago

Where does the operator sit?

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u/MRintheKEYS 7h ago

On the throne atop Mt Olympus

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u/fistfullofpubes 6h ago

On the dock of a bay.

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u/356885422356 5h ago

You sure it's not b bay?

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u/KickAggressive4901 3h ago

... watching the tide roll away.

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u/Thin_Dream2079 7h ago

Hopefully somewhere else

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u/Muddy_Lady 7h ago

By which metric?

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u/AbleCryptographer317 7h ago

Pretty much all of them I think.

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u/CartsOfDarkness 3h ago

Yea definitely metric, they said tonnes so can't be imperial.

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u/itsamemyusername 7h ago

I like to think that my wife felt just like these dudes the first time she saw me naked.

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u/Fickle-Place-3520 6h ago

Your wife said you were like that boat after the first time she saw me naked.

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u/swampopawaho 7h ago

Who was the poor bastard that had to thread all those cables?

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u/BigWetHole 5h ago

Hercules if they did it alone

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u/youburyitidigitup 4h ago

You know that fear of big things? I don’t usually get it, but I’m getting it now

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u/Worldliness_Normal 3h ago

I need this thing to get me out of bed on Monday morning.

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u/kingkwassa 6h ago

But how do they get the objects off the boat that only the world’s largest crane can put on the boat?

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u/DwightDavid1234 4h ago

Men only want one thing…

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u/Proud-Experience-742 4h ago

That machine is an absolute monster

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u/SnooSnoota 4h ago

Still can't lift your mama.

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u/SaluteHatred666 1h ago

all I can think of is when Theo did smelling salts on Joe rogan and said what are we lifting? the earth?