Every 3 years, the world's largest construction conference is in Las Vegas! 150,000 people, including myself, attended this year's
Con Expo. And, as a first-time attendee, I must say that it was INCREDIBLE! There was 2.2 million square feet of exhibits (which is equivalent to nearly 50 football fields!), and, in the 2 days that I was there, I didn't even see it all.
On one of the lots, they had TONS (literally!) of cranes all set up from every vendor imaginable. This picture didn't even capture 1/5th of it! One crane in particular had a lifting capacity of 800 tons (1,600,000 lbs.!) The hook on the block (hanging from the hoist line) was thicker than my torso and 18 parts to the line (the line running from the top of the boom to the hook and back up is considered a 2 part line).
Here's a few of the guys that I went with. We were living large at the Luxor buffet... Kal even got some prime rib! Although Missy was there, he was still able to eat amazingly well- even though he may never be allowed to eat another meal if she has anything to say about it. Kal just claimed that she wasn't going to be invited next time. :) Well, at least with the miles and miles of walking to the different exhibits he earned a little treat.
Here I am in the bucket of the Caterpillar loader they had on display. You too can own one of these babies for 1.6 million dollars. It runs on one diesel V12 but can carry 16 cubic yards of material in its humongous bucket. Believe it or not, Caterpillar makes a loader that is TWICE the size of this one here used mostly for mining operations... I'm sure it would have had a little trouble making it inside the building!
After a long day walking for what seems like forever, we had the evening to ourselves. As I'm not exactly a "high roller" I spent the time checking out the minature cities that are the hotels on the strip. Here at the MGM Grand where we stayed, the trainer in the "Lion Habitat" had one of the lions licking his hand... how sweet... meat?
Every 3 years, the world's largest construction conference is in Las Vegas! 150,000 people, including myself, attended this year's Con Expo. And, as a first-time attendee, I must say that it was INCREDIBLE! There was 2.2 million square feet of exhibits (which is equivalent to nearly 50 football fields!), and, in the 2 days that I was there, I didn't even see it all. 
On one of the lots, they had TONS (literally!) of cranes all set up from every vendor imaginable. This picture didn't even capture 1/5th of it! One crane in particular had a lifting capacity of 800 tons (1,600,000 lbs.!) The hook on the block (hanging from the hoist line) was thicker than my torso and 18 parts to the line (the line running from the top of the boom to the hook and back up is considered a 2 part line).
Here's a few of the guys that I went with. We were living large at the Luxor buffet... Kal even got some prime rib! Although Missy was there, he was still able to eat amazingly well- even though he may never be allowed to eat another meal if she has anything to say about it. Kal just claimed that she wasn't going to be invited next time. :) Well, at least with the miles and miles of walking to the different exhibits he earned a little treat.
Here I am in the bucket of the Caterpillar loader they had on display. You too can own one of these babies for 1.6 million dollars. It runs on one diesel V12 but can carry 16 cubic yards of material in its humongous bucket. Believe it or not, Caterpillar makes a loader that is TWICE the size of this one here used mostly for mining operations... I'm sure it would have had a little trouble making it inside the building! 
After a long day walking for what seems like forever, we had the evening to ourselves. As I'm not exactly a "high roller" I spent the time checking out the minature cities that are the hotels on the strip. Here at the MGM Grand where we stayed, the trainer in the "Lion Habitat" had one of the lions licking his hand... how sweet... meat?
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