Biggest Crane in Europe, MiRO, Karlsruhe, February 2018
I got the message (Thank you, Ingrid) that this crane was being assembled at the refinery. I had to draw it as part of my series of sketches recording the delivery of coke drums.
As I was drawing, security came up to me and said that I needed permission to draw this as I was on site. I had no idea that I had already cycled 1 km into the refinery and I was still sat outside the gate leading to the core of the site. I wasn’t allowed to photograph anything and was given the OK to draw. I think my sketches are too inaccurate to warrant a security risk!
Security told me that this crane was delivered on 261 trucks! The huge red crane on the right was used to assemble the bigger crane on the left. It’s hard to judge the scale of this thing. The pale block running across the black refinery tower about halfway up; this is a single storey. I’m guessing that the crane is a couple of hundred metres tall.
This was hard to draw, not only that the refinery is a jumble of pipes and beams, there was scaffolding that completely covered the tower. And it was bloody cold. Security offered that I warm up in the reception
Biggest Crane in Europe, MiRO, Karlsruhe, February 2018
I got the message (Thank you, Ingrid) that this crane was being assembled at the refinery. I had to draw it as part of my series of sketches recording the delivery of coke drums.
As I was drawing, security came up to me and said that I needed permission to draw this as I was on site. I had no idea that I had already cycled 1 km into the refinery and I was still sat outside the gate leading to the core of the site. I wasn’t allowed to photograph anything and was given the OK to draw. I think my sketches are too inaccurate to warrant a security risk!
Security told me that this crane was delivered on 261 trucks! The huge red crane on the right was used to assemble the bigger crane on the left. It’s hard to judge the scale of this thing. The pale block running across the black refinery tower about halfway up; this is a single storey. I’m guessing that the crane is a couple of hundred metres tall.
This was hard to draw, not only that the refinery is a jumble of pipes and beams, there was scaffolding that completely covered the tower. And it was bloody cold. Security offered that I warm up in the reception