Tower crane operators are the free agents of the construction industry. They are in high demand, must be certified and can make between $30 and $45 an hour. They can jump from job to job and place to ...

CHAMPAIGN – Operating a tower crane isn't for everyone – especially if you're acrophobic, claustrophobic or clumsy. Your whole day is spent in a compact "cabin" about 200 feet in the air. Part of the ...

FARGO — Work areas come in all varieties, but the spaces two men occupy on the Block 9 tower construction site downtown are wildly different than most. Jeff Jerde, 53, and Justin Beauchane, 41, ...

Chris Stephen doesn't have a job out of this world but it's way up there. "I've been running tower cranes on and off since 2007," he told me in his "office" three hundred feet in the air. Chris is one ...

Without tower cranes, it's likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

LA GRANDE — Cameron Rousseau doesn’t need a jolt of espresso to get his blood pumping each weekday morning. The last 130 feet of his journey to work in La Grande does the trick. Rousseau is the tower ...

As a tower crane operator, Jackie Garner has enough experience to do a job with her eyes closed. And in many cases, that's how most crane operators have to work: in the blind, hearing but not seeing.