Sounds like a great career, I am familiar with the importance having been involved with the use of this kind of lifting equipment, thought you may have been in the NY metro area, DeBlasio I am not familiar with. Bloomberg I did not care for, I am glad his overextended term is done.
I have not heard of any recent problems, but having worked with DOB and DOT, it was always a hurdle to get through on any job that you needed to place a crane on the street, like the first photo. That was my last day on the job, at that point I had enough of it, having been designated the superintendent on the technical responsibility report for each job, always with high pressure from the construction manager/general contractor who can be completely unreasonable with these super compressed schedules. Then add incompetent or pompous jerks that represent them on the job like this one with that 300 ton Demag that I was forced to place on the street without getting DOT approval, partly because of the sales jerk who sold them this job from our company did not align the lead time with the manufacturer of our materials, (giant windows) so that they could be delivered while the crawler crane was on site, always a pain when you have to use the GC's crane, but would have go the job loaded without so much risk. The super on this job from the CM/GC, was one the worst I have ever dealt with, that day I paid him back nicely, blocked off an adjacent building got him in hot water, he came after me and I looked him square in the eye, and said I could care less, you want a piece of me, I'll gladly accommodate you right now, here in the street, he got in my face and I warned him, touch me, you will regret it, (lets just say I can back that up) I said you think this is easy, then you do it, otherwise get out of my face, I have a job to do and I have no time for distractions when working with a crane. I always directed our cranes on site with signals or 2 way radio. I called him super mario, given his ethnicity, just another dig to p^ss him off. The masonry foreman whom I worked with on other jobs, was laughing his @ss off, having watched the entire thing. I had hoped to p^ss him off so he would take a swipe at me, instead he ran off like a little girl into a tirade of anger and rage, called our company, just went off the deep end, I finished the day out, safely, our company was cited heavily by DOT, I am sure it cost a lot of money, I met with the partners, and we mutually agreed our relationship was done. I had enough of this aggravation with idiots. I will not be designated as a superintendent on TR-1 form and have to work under these circumstances, this is how people get killed and accidents happen. CM/GC was all over me about getting the crane on site, the materials into the building, trying to make me look bad, saying I was behind, the date I gave them to do it was not good enough, you have to make it sooner, it put unimaginable stress on me, so I responded, you want the crane, I'll send it, no permits nothingm NY Crane would do that, and they did for me on another job. I told that super, you want the windows, I'll bury this job with windows, you sure you want that, you absolutely sure??? So I did what I could, called the manufacturer in Wausau, Wisconsin, told them to send everything at once, went to another job at 3am moved a forklift to this job when it all arrived, tractor trailers lined up, 300 ton demag, I literally shut the job down on both sides, restricting access, I had everything tied up. I even made sure to p^ss off the worthless operating engineer Master Mechanic on the site too, by hiring an operating engineer to run the forklift without going to the union hall, just happens the guy I brought in was an arch enemy, perfect !!! I sure had a great ability to ignite a volatile situation in those days. So in essence, I did make their unreasonable deadline or date, when I did, they condemned me for it, of course where I placed that crane, blocking the neighboring buildings underground garage, was the icing on the cake, CM/GC took a lot of flak for that, and I did it intentionally, I really hated my job at that point, I was glad to leave this chaos. It was getting too unsafe and what happened in 2008 with the first tower crane that went over was likely under the same circumstances, some CM/GC being pushy, riggers cut corners tried to pick the entire ring and used nylon straps, when I believe it should have been appropriate wire rope, whatever the facts are, I do know they were trying to save time, it cost 7 peoples lives if I recall. In the photo you can see I was right behind the masonry by 1 floor which is the norm. You have to have room to work, glad I never had to go back to that job.
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