Comments on: Here a crane, there a crane, everywhere a crane, crane

By: John Governale

John Governale — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:45:03 +0000

When we lived in Germany in the 1980s, there was so much construction, we jokingly referred to the crane as the national bird.

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By: Ssquach

Ssquach — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:30:01 +0000

I work for the largest industrial auctioneer in the world. We auction construction equipment nearly everywhere in the world (including Dubai) and a couple of years ago my coworkers in Dubai produced a slide show illustrating how many tower cranes were in Dubai. In 2005, it was estimated that 14% of the world’s tower cranes were located in Dubai. There are many more there now than there were then and judging by the amount of equipment that I see exported from the U.S. to UAE, it really is the fastest growing city in the world.

By: Jared Probst

Jared Probst — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:26:40 +0000

“Flock of Cranes”? I prefer “Flock of Seagulls”. Har har har.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:48:07 +0000

I lived in Dubai for 2 years and was involved in the construction industry, the exploitation of the Indian and Pakistani workers is what ultimately made me leave and return to Ireland, it is a modern and very open slave labour market, there guys make little more than $100 a month, live in “Labour camps” and are forced to repay their flights over to Dubai to loan sharks back in their native country, they are also made work 6 days a week, 12 to 14 hours a day and there is little regard for health and safety, they also do not get vacation time for at least 2 years

By: Leslie Booher

Leslie Booher — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:06:06 +0000

When our family hiked the Camino in Spain in 2002, we were amazed to find cranes all across northern Spain. In villages of just a few buildings there’d be a crane. We could almost quit following the blazes and look for the cranes on the horizon. It was the first year of Spain’s use of the Euro, and we wondered if all that money pouring into the country had had a boom building effect. We saw more cranes on that hike than I’d seen in a lifetime in the States.