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Report - Bayscape Tower Crane, Cardiff - May 2014

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Visited with Seffy.

A couple of days earlier we had arranged an evening in London but at the last minutes we did a 180 degree decision and decided to travel in the opposite direct to look a crane we have had our eye on for a while. The crane sits on the construction site of the new Bayscape development. It was very chilled up there with some nice views of the bay.

Some more information:
Bayscape is a prestigious waterfront development in a booming and proud Capital city. Plans for a £60m waterfront flats and hotel development, stalled by the global financial crisis, have been given the go-ahead. Cardiff council’s planning committee backed a proposal by the developers behind the Bayscape scheme to increase the number of apartments and commercial space. Under the new plans, the hotel – which could become one of the tallest buildings in Wales – will be built in a later phase. The 32-storey hotel, to be run by American luxury chain Wyndham Hotels, has been dogged by delays since planning permission was granted in October 2009. At 127m high, it would be higher than the 80m Capital Tower, the BT Tower, which is 78m with a 40m spire on top, and the 107m-tall Meridian Quay in Swansea.

It's the taller one in this photo:
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Well, I don't want to say this crane was tricky as such, but certainly involved some improvising. It involved high hoarding with razor wire around the top. Razor wire wrapped around the base of the crane. As well as two locked trap doors. Someone didn't want this thing climbed!

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Thanks for looking.​
 

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Rik UE

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Gorgeous photographs, nice view up there!

Looks nice relaxed one up there, thanks for sharing :)
 

super nerris

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s**t that's high, picture looking down made my hair stand up on my neck haha, great pics mate!!!!
 

Adventure seeker

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Visited with Seffy.

A couple of days earlier we had arranged an evening in London but at the last minutes we did a 180 degree decision and decided to travel in the opposite direct to look a crane we have had our eye on for a while. The crane sits on the construction site of the new Bayscape development. It was very chilled up there with some nice views of the bay.

Some more information:


It's the taller one in this photo:
Screenshot2014-05-26144912.png


Well, I don't want to say this crane was tricky as such, but certainly involved some improvising. It involved high hoarding with razor wire around the top. Razor wire wrapped around the base of the crane. As well as two locked trap doors. Someone didn't want this thing climbed!

Onward with the photos:

14270902621_9f0470c000_c.jpg


14087665407_2edc92dd12_c.jpg


14087578899_ee39391ab9_c.jpg


14272154142_2f63c5fb86_c.jpg


14274233595_163860f36d_c.jpg


14087668087_2b44588f77_c.jpg


14274237055_d287fed84d_c.jpg


DSC_0087.jpg


14274236445_c538eb9c59_c.jpg


Thanks for looking.​
Amazing photos there. I love the night photos from cranes especially. I climbed a crane many years ago in Swansea after a night out, unfortunately this was well before camera phones were common.
I'd love to get into climbing these cranes. I went to Cardiff the other day and seen there is one near the Millennium Stadium. As a big rugby fan I'm particularly interested in climbing this one to take some shots of the Millenium Stadium from above. A shot looking down on the pitch would be really good. Have you or anyone you know conquered this one yet, the security looks a little tight.
 
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