cranes

There are a lot of reasons why Lego remains one of the world’s most popular toys, over 3,700, in fact: the number of…

Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, but new research suggests a primitive lifting…

This definitely isn’t the first incredibly detailed Lego crane we’ve ever featured, but Dawid Szmandra’s 1:24-scale…

Do you remember how proud you were the first time you built something with Lego—without instructions—that other…

Bad idea: trying to use a crane to lift a water tank before checking if it’s empty or not. You can see the crane’s…

Most people see a tower crane and wonder what it’s building. These guys see a construction crane and think the…

It might seem like remote control cars are where all the real fun’s at, but it’s hard not to be completely wowed by…

For anyone who needs money and also has access to a crane and can somehow finagle an entire ATM machine out of thin…

This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours.…

A construction crane builds buildings and structures and basically everything but what builds a construction crane?…

This is my favorite thing. A few years ago Liebherr showed off the power and strength of its giant mobile cranes by…

A small group of elephants who had been displaced have been butting heads with local villagers in a village in Daloa…

What’s better then a monster machine? A meta machine. Here are a bunch of machines that really took the advice…

Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine, has been stuck under downtown Seattle since it broke in December…

Need a pick-me-up this morning? Know that, somewhere in the world, there are origami cranes capable of performing…

At 328 feet, the crane stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, plus has a lifting capacity of nearly 2000 tons.…

The US Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for keeping debris out of New York's Harbor, whether it's dead whales,…

There are 42 tower cranes working together to build a brand new city district for more than 20,000 people in Vienna,…

Many of today's seafaring megastructures would be nigh on impossible to build without the lifting assistance…

Ships today—even the massive likes of the Emma Maersk and Marco Polo—just aren't big enough to handle the demands of…