This is what it's like to climb a 200-foot tower crane

The Washington Post 2016-06-13

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Down along the Wharf waterfront construction project in Southwest Washington, tower cranes soar hundreds of feet into the sky. The Washington Post climbed one of those steel behemoths to get a better view.

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