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 Ben Cooper
 
Location: Scotland
 |  |  | Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
< on 5/27/2010 10:02 PM >
|  | | | Inchgreen drydock in Greenock is still an active site – currently leased to BAE Systems, it was last used to assemble a giant floating dock for Faslane naval base. It also once played host to the Queen Elizabeth liner - there's an old film of this here.
Inchgreen has three goosenecked level-luffing cranes - two smaller identical ones and one larger Arrol. I made several visits to scope the place out, climb the Arrol first, then go back for the other two...
It’s a bit of a slog to the end – a hundred steps up to the cab level, then two hundred steps up to the top, then another hundred down to the end of the jib – most of it very exposed with bugger-all to clip in to. Fun, though 
Next onto the other two, with their open lattices I thought they'd be scarier to climb, but actually they were at a more sensible angle so weren't too bad.
On the second one, got to the top platform to find it wasn’t there – just a couple of girders with some scraps of rusty steel hanging from them. Wasn’t going to stand on that, so sat on the top steps of the ladder itself…
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aurelie
    
Location: pacific northwest
Gender: Female
high tech:: low life.
| | | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 1 on 5/27/2010 10:32 PM >
| | | | Nice cranes! Amazing views. What are you shooting with?
reckless thoughts abide; anachronistic and impulsive.
loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. |
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TurboZutek
 
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  | | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 2 on 5/27/2010 11:01 PM >
| | | | Nice jazz mags!!
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Ben Cooper
Location: Scotland
| | | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 3 on 5/27/2010 11:14 PM >
| | | | Aye, taped right over the windows as well
Aurelie - Sony A900, with Sigma 12-24mm and 16mm fisheye...
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Plosmoyre
Location: Norway
Gender: Male
| | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 4 on 6/1/2010 6:12 PM >
| | | | Daaamn, nice cranes! Good pictures too. One day, I want a crane like that in my garden.
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injektilo
Location: The Northeast
Gender: Male
Ride or Die
| |  | | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 5 on 6/1/2010 8:22 PM >
| | | | sounds like a great time, cool shots.
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ahhntzville
Location: Boston
| | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 6 on 6/3/2010 6:55 PM >
| | | | Awesome, makes me pine for the ones that got cut up for scrap here.
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Lichtbringer
Location: Köln
Gender: Male
I liked popular culture before it became popular.
| | | Re: Inchgreen Drydock Cranes, Scotland
<Reply # 7 on 6/7/2010 9:10 PM >
| | | | Amazing pictures man!
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