The Terex Demag CC 6800 Crawler Crane will begin arriving in Minneapolis today to take part in the construction of the new stadium. The crane is coming from it's last assignment at a power plant in New Florence, PA. This crane is so damn big that it takes 70 truckloads and 10 days to deliver. Then it takes 11 days to erect. Upon assemby, the site of the new stadium will have a crane that is 400 feet high. It requires a counter weight of one million pounds. That's a big crane. It is the third largest in the world. The crane will place its first piece of structural steel in late July and will remain at the site for the next 15 months.
The fact that the construction of the stadium requires a crane this size is an indication of the size of the stadium. In square footage, the new stadium is roughly twice the size of the now demolished Metrodome. There will be seven seating levels in the new stadium. The Metrodome had three. This new stadium will be large and beautiful. We know that it will be large and beautiful because it will cost about a billion dollars to build. No one spends a billion dollars to build something that's small and ugly. The new stadium will be so large and beautiful that it requires the Terex Demag CC 6800 Crawler Crane to build.
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