820-foot-tall world's largest crane completes its biggest ever lift, pics surface
The world's largest crane completed its biggest ever lift today, hoisting a 575-ton steel cylinder into place at a nuclear site in the UK. The super-crane, nicknamed Big Carl, lifted the first of three massive steel rings which form a cylinder around the nuclear reactor being built near Bridgwater, Somerset. The crane can be 820-foot-high in its tallest configuration.