Schwing began his career by designing a
climbing crane the construction industry embraced.
The illustrated examples include a braced
climbing crane beside a building, and an internal
climbing crane inside a building.
Known as "rooftopping," the process involves
climbing cranes, chimneys or high-rise buildings unsecured and usually illegally.
He says he started
climbing cranes because "that's what I know".
But as assistant superintendent on the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Center's four-story vertical addition, he's mainly
climbing cranes. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie, so the height issue is not a big deal, said Giwa, who enjoys sky diving and running obstacle courses in his free time.
Ryan Taylor and Ally Law, who film videos of themselves carrying off daring challenges like
climbing cranes and sneaking into abandoned properties, managed to get as far as the front door in their last stunt
The huge devices, known as '
climbing cranes' have been designed to accompany the Tower's growth both externally and internally.
A pair of Liebherr flat-top
climbing cranes are being used on the 82-storey Lokhandwala Minerva tower building overlooking the famous Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai.
Leila Deen has a long history of
climbing cranes, glueing herself to doors and exposing her midriff at a protest, though quite how the sight of her belly-button helps the environment I don't know.
David Robson, of A&P, said: "People should not be on site
climbing cranes.
Perhaps he will now join Fathers 4 Justice - he'd be excused from
climbing cranes dressed as Batman
One of the perks of being a newspaper columnist, other than, say, spending five straight hours in coffee shops or
climbing cranes, is speaking to schools, mainly elementary schools.
