The mind-blowing dormer cranes of Le Landeron – 3
Continuing the series,
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The mind-blowing dormer cranes of Le Landeron – 2
Continuing the series, Le Landeron is a medieval village in central western Swiss canton of Neuchatel that is one of a very tiny minority of Swiss villages in which most of the houses have been equipped with medieval dormer cranes, used for lifting things to the highest level: For a long time I wondered about […]
Antibes Crane
Continuing the series, I took this snap at a construction site in the southern French town of Antibes:
Triangle Crane
I captured this snap in Oberwinterthur, next to an indoor “freefall” center where you can pretend to fall out of an airplane: I never re-touch or edit any of my snaps, so I thought it was wonderful how the colors of the crane compliment how the sky looked at that moment. And the crane itself […]
Rhein Crane
Continuing the series, I took this snap but did not have much time to linger around. So it’s definitely on my bucket list to go back one day and and try to understand the purpose of this pipe: does it onload or offload – or perhaps both? And does it deal with liquids or compressed […]
Rhein Crane
Continuing the series, I was never able to figure out of this old crane was primarily used for onloading or offloading barges on the Rhein River flowing between France and Germany:
Oberwinterthur Crane
Continuing the series, this is a crane that I spotted in the Swiss village of Oberwinterthur,
St. Pancras Crane
Continuing the series, I thought this was one of the most unusual cranes I’ve ever captured to date. It was located at a construction site near the famous St. Pancras International railway station, in London:
Mulhouse crane
Continuing the series, this is a crane that I snapped in the French town of Mulhouse,
Winterthur Crane – 2
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Rivetoile Crane
Continuing the series, this is one of two cranes remaining at what used to be docks adjacent to the Rhine River in France, but now the site of a giant indoor shopping mall: I’ve blogged about this place before, in connection with hidden canals.
The mystery of the Middle Ages dormer cranes – solved!
In earlier blog posts I’ve mentioned that some – but only some – Middle Age villages have cranes on their dormers, like this: and like this: The cranes are obviously for hauling loads to the top of the building. But here’s the mystery: if these cranes are very useful, and indeed they appear to be, […]
Zürich Crane
Continuing the series, I thought this one was particularly striking, because it was missing the top tension cables you normally see on a construction crane.
Stuttgart Crane
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Winterthur Crane
I thought this snap of a construction crane in Winterthur was impressive from this perspective:
The amazing underground recycling cisterns of Switzerland
I’ve written about garbage in Texas and garbage in Switzerland. I’ve also written about garbage in Germany. So as long I was in a garbage state of mine, I wanted to finish by showing a very common sight in the Swiss canton of Zurich: a long row of very nice looking, very pretty smelling chutes: […]
Garbage in Switzerland
After showing how Texans deal with their garbage, I thought it would be fun to show how my apartment building in Switzerland has recently tackled the challenge. Until a few weeks ago, there were huge containers that we’d throw our garbage bags into: They were smelly, took up a lot of space, and were an […]
Hidden canals #3: Vanishing near the Rivetoile
The nineteenth century saw an explosion of canal building, and with good cause: railroads were a monopoly, and trucks and automobiles had yet to be invented. But today, many of these canals are disappearing fast – but not overnight. So they present a wonderful opportunity to watch how and where they slowly slip from reality […]