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Please, no crane-ception jokes.

This is a video from Germany of a heavy equipment manufacturer demonstrating their cranes' abilities to pick up other cranes. The tiniest one is just a model crane, but the biggest one is HUUUUGE. No clue what you'd use a crane that big to build, but probably a Death Star. I've gotta admit, as a boy who grew up pretending to be a bulldozer driver, I've always wanted to operate a crane. One with a wrecking ball attached. And I want that crane to be right next to a frienemy's apartment complex. Call me a loser behind my back *KA-CRASH!* F*** your rental deposit, Derek!

Hit the jump for the video, but definitely skip around and don't watch all 7-minutes.

Thanks to Ash, who once drove a crane through a plate-glass window during his first day on the job and got all sad when he got fired and wouldn't let him keep the yellow construction helmet. I would've just run with it.

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There are Comments
  • oranberry

    Like the russian dolls

  • Yo dawg, I herd u like cranes.

  • So fake. You can see the wires and everything.

  • Geigh

    I just want to know what Dr. Frasier Crane thinks about all of this.

  • It's like the "construction worker" form of Inception...A crane, within a crane, within a crane, within a crane.....

  • You just had to do it, didn't you?
    "Please, no crane-ception jokes." ~GW

  • Lol Oh no! The world is ending!

    [To be honest, I just skimmed the article. Sorry for forcing you to read my post.]

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