{"id":731,"date":"2009-10-28T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2009-10-28T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:05:53","slug":"crane-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/crane-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4219b-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4219b\" title=\"DSCN4219b\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-733 colorbox-731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4219b-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4219b-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4219b.JPG 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For the last two days I was up in Cambridge at BAS learning to drive the cranes they have mounted on the snow cats. The one I was learning on is actually the smallest one they have. It is a bit like I imagine driving a tank is like &#8211; slow and hard to maneouvre. Instead of a steering wheel there are two levers. It was such fun playing around with the machine learning to sling things and move them about the yard. The reason I am being taught this is so that I can load the boats in the water as the slipway was taken out by a storm at Rothera. At Halley which has no boating they take about 2 months to unload the cargo ship and use these machines everyday. Oh and I get a license that looks like your drivers license to allow me to drive them anywhere I want!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4209-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4209\" title=\"DSCN4209\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-732 colorbox-731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN4209-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last two days I was up in Cambridge at BAS learning to drive the cranes they have mounted on the snow cats. The one I was learning on is actually the smallest one they have. It is a bit like I imagine driving a tank is like &#8211; slow and hard to maneouvre. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}