Working at the Etihad Stadium
The vehicle set up outside the stadium with the boom out over the barriers, working to the venue’s timings rather than ours.
Portfolio
2023 — jobs we can show you
Site accommodation into the Etihad, the festival run down the A39, electrical panels from Ellesmere Port to London, and a great many ordinary days on the M6.
15 documented jobs from 2023, each with the photograph it came from. Every job is one we actually did.
The record
What 2023 looked like
Each one is a job that happened, captioned with what it was.
Working round the forecourt
The forecourt carries permanent sculpture, paving and street furniture, so the vehicle works around fixed features it cannot move and the outriggers go on spreader pads.
M6 to M5, southbound
A container run heading south. The green box has been on a lot of these.
Southbound on the M6
The same run further on, photographed from another vehicle.
Spotted on an A road
Sent in by a driver who recognised the livery. We get a surprising number of these.
Spotted on a dual carriageway
Another one, sent in the same way.
The festival run, on the A39
The artic loaded and southbound on the A39 for the festival. It is the same road every year and it is the part of the job that decides the timings.
The wagon and drag on the same road
The MAN and the drag on the A39 with cabins on both decks. Two decks means two lifts at each end and one driver doing both.
Site cabins to Droitwich
A run of site cabins supplied and delivered to a site at Droitwich, loaded two to the drag and one on the rigid.
Units in at the Etihad
Site accommodation going in at the Etihad Stadium on a Saturday in July, with the mast and the roof over the top of the lift.
Loaded and away from the ground
The same visit, loaded and leaving. Stadium work is done in the gap between one event and the next.
Electrical panels, Ellesmere Port to London
Wrapped electrical panels loaded at Ellesmere Port and run down to London, photographed on the M6 at Lymm in June 2023.
Under a low bridge
Working right underneath a low railway bridge. There is no room to raise the boom, so the load comes off sideways and slowly.
A refrigerated unit on the bed
A refrigerated cabin loaded on the rigid. Units with plant on the roof change where the weight sits, which changes where the strops go.
Onto the hardstanding
A cabin coming down onto hardstanding with the ladder already up the side. The job after the lift is levelling it.
Stadium work is timed by the venue and nobody else. You get the slot you are given, the vehicle goes where the safety officer says, and the crane comes down before the gates open.
The rest of the record
Every year we have photographs for
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