Skyhook

[Per Swenson]

For as long as I can remember a running joke

in the construction trades is to call in the skyhook.

This mythical tool was used to explain loads of things to the uninformed and unsuspecting.

Usually it was used to answer the age old question, how the heck ya gonna do that?

One time we were asked to remove a cross from a converted church.

At the top of a inaccessible steeple. we explained the skyhook would not be available

for two months.  20 years later that cross is still there.

Which brings us to this.

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I think we oughta give Boeing

a call see if we can get a small one.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Now that's what I call an optimistic illustration! Not as catchy though as calling it science fiction.

An airship that size couldn't lift the smallest of those logs even if it didn't extend below the bottom of the picture.

An inflatable air hook sure would be handy. Cranes are expensive.