Today, we went to visit Big Benny. Who is Big Benny, you ask? Let me show you:
Big Benny is the largest land-based crane in the world and has been working on the new Intel factory for the last couple of months. It's huge--pretty much everywhere you drive these days, if you are looking in the direction of Intel, you see Big Benny. Here are a few facts about our friend: His maximum lifting capacity is 4000 tons. He has a 10 million pound counter weight. The main hook block weighs 116 tons. Fuel consumption under full operation is 100 gallons/hour. His birthday is March 20th and he'll turn one this year. Big Benny is also expensive: it's rumored to cost $100,000/day for rental.
For Intel Family Day, we were able to go visit. It's pretty impressive to see up close! The kids all got yellow construction hats (really quite flimsy--I'm sure they don't meet current safety criteria) and lots of stickers to put on them. They also took our photo with him.
Big Benny is the largest land-based crane in the world and has been working on the new Intel factory for the last couple of months. It's huge--pretty much everywhere you drive these days, if you are looking in the direction of Intel, you see Big Benny. Here are a few facts about our friend: His maximum lifting capacity is 4000 tons. He has a 10 million pound counter weight. The main hook block weighs 116 tons. Fuel consumption under full operation is 100 gallons/hour. His birthday is March 20th and he'll turn one this year. Big Benny is also expensive: it's rumored to cost $100,000/day for rental.
For Intel Family Day, we were able to go visit. It's pretty impressive to see up close! The kids all got yellow construction hats (really quite flimsy--I'm sure they don't meet current safety criteria) and lots of stickers to put on them. They also took our photo with him.
The family with Big Benny
Sarah holding a sample of the 2-inch wire that controls the crane. There are over 5.2 miles of it and it weighs 25 lbs/ft.
There were also had a lot of other construction trucks around that we could look at.
Pretty cool!
Wow! That's one powerful crane! Glad it's working for us!
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