Today at work I noticed some unusual activity at 222 South Main. This is a building that’s going up downtown and will soon block the sun from my window for most of the morning. I’ve been unofficially documenting the progress of this building and find it interesting. Like I said today was a little different, they were expanding the crane and making it taller. I saw them bring up expansion pieces one by one, but because I was at work trying to get things done, I never saw what happened after they brought the piece up. No matter how i tried to time my glances out the window, I always saw the same thing, them bringing up a piece. I never once saw what they did with the piece once they got it up there, but sure enough, the crane was getting taller.

After an afternoon of frustration, I finally turned to youtube and found a nice time lapse video that shows all the parts of the process I was missing.

I hope you find this as intriguing as I do.

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