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#4273650 - 06/27/16 12:00 AM Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower!  
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I heard this hair-raising story about "Olga" the Sikorsky Skycrane the other day ...

Originally Posted By: www.cntower.ca
Before the antenna could be lifted, the giant crane used for four years of round-the-clock service to build the Tower would have to be dismantled and brought down.

To do all this moving, "Olga" - a 10 ton Sikorsky helicopter used primarily for industrial lifting - was flown to Toronto.

And on her first trip, tragedy almost struck.

As Olga was removing the first piece of the boom, the crane lurched, twisting and seizing the supporting bolts.

Now hovering about 1500 feet up, Olga was basically attached to the Tower, with 50 minutes of fuel (the job was supposed to take only 12 minutes). The crane couldn't just be released, either. The operator was still inside.

Steel workers scrambled up and burned off the bolts, finally releasing the crane from the Tower.

Olga landed with about 14 minutes of fuel left.




Here's an image from 1974 ...

Originally Posted By: www.thestar.com
Larry Porter was one of 1,537 workers who toiled on the tower around the clock, five days a week, for an hourly wage of $8 if they worked below 1,000 feet (305 metres). They got danger pay plus an additional $1 per 200-300 feet (60-90 metres) if they worked above that height.




Originally Posted By: www.thestar.com
That day, I think it was about an 80-mile-an-hour (130 km/h) wind or something like that, Porter said.



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#4273655 - 06/27/16 12:13 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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Impressive, thanks very much for sharing it!

Interestingly for me, is that almost exactly 3 months later I would be born in the same city so the CN Tower has also the same age as I smile

#4273658 - 06/27/16 12:29 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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Cool. I never knew this.

#4273659 - 06/27/16 12:30 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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Men with balls of Steel. Unreal the conditions they worked in and they pay Sucked.

Now we need to hear the story of the building of the tallest building on earth.
Just about 2 times this height. Yikes.


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#4273660 - 06/27/16 12:40 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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#4273664 - 06/27/16 12:53 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: saghen]  
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We Canadians ARE a hearty bunch. Thats why there are no elevators in the CN Tower. You have to take the stairs. biggrin

#4273665 - 06/27/16 01:04 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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#4273669 - 06/27/16 01:15 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted By: JimK
Now we need to hear the story of the building of the tallest building on earth.
Just about 2 times this height. Yikes.


1.5 times. rolleyes (not really interested right now though)

#4549483 - 12/23/20 02:11 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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What a fascinating fact! Never knew how much work used to go back in the day in assembling and disassembling these tall guys! I always thought it was just people connecting each piece with each other even back in the day! Thankfully nowadays this kind of operations are much safer for everyone involved.

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#4549485 - 12/23/20 02:47 AM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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There is also stair climb charity races. Mid-spring in Toronto is the time for the CN Tower Climb challenge, when thousands ascend the top of this iconic monument. The goal is 144 flights, which consist of 1,776 steps.

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Yup. It's so obvious it's funny. I had forgotten about Linebacker until I saw this thread. He used to show up for the ArmA 3 Military Monday sessions years ago and then disappeared.


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#4550023 - 12/28/20 09:43 PM Re: Happy 40th Anniversay CN Tower! [Re: Linebacker]  
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Thanks for sharing that, it was almost 20 years ago that I went up there and stood on the glass floor - oooh what a feeling in the knees biggrin


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