Rockfrog33

Credit to Constantio Flouras from KI passiwlder FB page. He grabbed thus from today, apparently The Beast has started testing

Does any one know what is going on with The Beast? It's been down for a few days now with no updates from the park

Yes,they will need only one large crane to do this as they will pull the chain up the hill.

If you look closely, they picked up Artemis's boom to let Zeus cross over closer to the track...

From the looks of it they would need to change out the boom head to be able to add the frame arms and the job foot to Artemis. But as some posted earlier, this model crane might not have a luffing jib option...

I would say this is temporary. Most likely to place the lower part of the track spine. It would make since to have to heavy lifting cranes to move it into place then have one relocate to hold it wile the other put up the support for it. Then once that is done they will add to little Arty.

I would assume after the second crane is up that they would do more on the bottom of the first drop. And the cherry pickers can help with that section easly. Then they will go back and forth working up to the peak.

So, it looks like they have everything onsite to build the lower boom of Artemis. We may have him up end of day tomorrow if the rest of it is in the parking lot...

And I know that they make taller ones that are on crawers too. But my uncle was on a project that had a stationary crane built on site that had a 400" boom and a lifting capacity of 2 million tons..

Ttd was also topped off by crane, although I'm not sure the model used. Credit, cpfansite.com

Sorry for the double post.... The blocks on this ride, in my opinion, will be the station, lift, flat part of the brake run, the lower portion of the down hill brake run, and the transfer track. There are always going to be atleast one more block then there are trains, but in manny cases there are actually 2 more as a fail safe.

It will take three 300ft cranes like it did for fury. One to lift the last lift section and hold it in place, one to lift the start to the drop, and one to take the crew up to bolt it together. credit to Coaster101.com

We have the one now under construction, one more still to be built and then I believe that they are going to bring the mobile crane from the parking lot in.

How soon do you guys think Artemis will be up in the air? My bet is either the end of the BBC week or beginning of next week....

Walking in from the employee lot and there are white boom components in the lot on the north corner

Thank you teenageninja!

Can some one later today swing by and get pictures? Thank you in advance

If you look closely, the small white crane has started the vertical construction for the station building..... Edit.. lovinMeSomeBanshee beat me to it..

I would like some picks of Clifford if not already on site by then....

And on top of that only a small part of Clifford can be assembled off site. The tracks, counter weights, and the articulated boom have to be added onsite due to weight and size. I would say the base part of him will be on site tomorrow with most of the assembly taking place the first part of next week.

I had mentioned that yesterday.. lol but I did say it was for Clifford

Maybe he is in the parking lot helping with Clifford. Or in the second lot of track loading a trailer...

So, it appears that they are now placing the timber for the articulated crawler crane. I would look to see that starting to be assembled by Friday....

So, after looking as the prints and seeing the clearance envelope on the track that goes under the first drop I would say that atleast one piece that goes under the drop be placed prior to the pull out section of the drop. Reason why is because once the drop is in they will be dealing with an extremely tight cleaning that would make placing the piece (EL107) difficult yet would not effect the placement of supports or track for the drop if this is placed first.

So, my bet is that they may do a little bit of the break run but then move to complete the lift hill. The reason why is because building the break run entirely would block access to the site that the larger cranes will need to swing the pieces into place. Also, there are a few shared footings and it would be easyer to place the larger columns first on those footings.