Installing A Massive Control Tower At Heathrow Airport | Huge Moves | Spark

At Britain's busiest airport, Heathrow, a team of international engineers have to dodge aircraft, passengers and their luggage, racing against time to move a gleaming, state of the art Air Traffic Control Tower across the world's busiest runway into position in a brand new terminal. Find out how they narrowly avoid a lightning storm that threatens to strike the glass tower down in transit, and precision park it onto its new foundations.
Meanwhile, in Manitoba, Canada, fearless tower king Harold Minty has to shift five, 200 foot tall grain towers 20 miles, over a mountain frozen with ice and snow to a new farm. It's a rollercoaster ride as he fights his way through a vicious snowstorm, battling to stop this towering steel super-convoy from slipping off a snowy cliff edge.
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[@kevinquist]

lol. they have to call the tower to see if the tower can cross. lol

[@CanadairCL44]

Never even got to V1!

[@kevinquist]

@@CanadairCL44 LMAO.

[@larrysgarage1682]

Jesus 🤣🤣

[@CanadairCL44]

@@AngelNumberXXX LOL, the tower talking to itself and refusing permission!

[@robinmyman]

Cat 3 reposition...what can go wrong?

[@hariharanshekar9836]

Heathrow tower timestamps 7:10, then 15:48, then 31:11, and then 40:23 The Manitoba grain elevator move is just as amazing

[@sparshthakker6776]

The most useful comment

[@selkim7426]

thank you so much

[@cariwallis1806]

‘Come on around you’re paid by the hour’ hilarious

[@devonmerrick1111]

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[@diegocalvin1571]

@Devon Merrick Instablaster ;)

[@devonmerrick1111]

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[@diegocalvin1571]

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[@muqarabawan8200]

Missing Richard Hammond in the documentary

[@derrekvanee4567]

The shortest man... ... In THE WORLD. /Clarkson

[@Wutzmename]

The Hamster

[@Wutzmename]

P.S. He was narrator for a different show involving manufacturing of BIG things not this show.

[@imrank340]

I must say I admire Minty & Co in adverse circumstances they manage to pull the long moveable job, in comparison to Heathrow Tower move.

[@rogerdinnis3816]

Installed new control tower in 2007!

[@unbiased1]

This must've been the first time in history that ATC had to give clearance for the tower to cross runway 😁 [43:28]

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

7:10 LHR ATC story begins. My pleasure!

[@sexynelson100]

thanks

[@johnmac1960]

Thank you

[@mfx1]

"Primary concern is health and safety" yea right, I suspect Primary concert is £30M

[@Sarge92]

nah anyone below site manager couldnt give a fuck how much it cost 30million pound controll tower or crappy flats in croydon they get paid the same wages either way there more concerned about what's for dinner

[@13minutestomidnight]

Agreed with the comment above. The managers at the very top might be thinking nonstop about the 30M (well, for all we know), but the team seemed far too level-headed and experienced to let the admin push them into working when it wasn't safe (in fact, they did refuse, and the guys up top had to swallow it). Ironically, it's the guys out in rural Canada shifting those massive silos that really seemed to be working to the absolute limits of what was safe (hell, what they were doing certainly didn't look safe), just because the job was so damn difficult.

[@jehadeid3264]

My fullest respect to all these brave hardworking people to whom the impossible is always POSSIBLE.

[@Errr717]

Compared to the grain towers move, it seems to me that the Heathrow control tower would be a piece of cake. The ground is relatively flat and they've got high tech moving equipment.

[@heidiknitter-murray7473]

LOVE THE HITCH HIKER,🐦 PIGEON.

[@hawkeye-vv4kb]

Thanks Spark for another lovely documentary video.

[@pingu255]

I've actually been up the control tower. The view is spectacular, you can see all the way to Windsor from one side, and all the way to the square mile at the other

[@aidanwest7433]

How'd you get in the control tower?

[@pingu255]

@@aidanwest7433 when I was in air cadets they took us up

[@aidanwest7433]

@@pingu255 nice

[@amazer747]

@@aidanwest7433 There's a door at the bottom

[@aidanwest7433]

@@amazer747 you must be a dad

[@samirumrani1234]

This is going to be a wild and dangerous ride across the runway

[@g.mendoza8138]

Great job guys!

[@Hazzar366]

That sucks there’s a video in your adverts

[@Wutzmename]

I see what you did there. Clever but that's the only way they can pay for licensing rights to air these documentaries to us for "free".

[@sharonrose7938]

I think it's interesting to watch and learn about. I guess maintaining their structural integrity is also part of the deal.

[@WilliamWaiteProductions]

police to the tower: "so what brings you to England?"

[@juliancumming6893]

@AF Noorzai immigration officers say the name of the country not the city.

[@Dan-zc7ut]

@@juliancumming6893, London is in England !

[@juliancumming6893]

@@Dan-zc7ut I know that's the point. The guy corrected England to London even though the correct word is, in fact, England.

[@jeremyclarkson5548]

@@juliancumming6893 don’t they usually say what brings you to the Uk/United Kingdom Not England I might be wrong tho

[@roselyn664]

Fantastic!! It is very challenging work , they made a Fabulous steps and wow! genius people

[@markcraven8386]

Giuseppe-Verdi La Donna E Mobil (Rigoletto) London Philharmonic Orchestra Now that's class !

[@shreddder999]

How long does it take the roots to recover from the shock?

[@isuruprobodha2808]

Background opera is crazy one...

[@nicholasdiehl7368]

I love the joke at the end like he needs a different elevator than the one that is there it would have made it even better if they actually did bring the wrong one all that way that would be funny as hell seeing them have to move it all again 🤣🤣

[@6yjjk]

That does it, I'm spending the rest of the evening on installing PiHole. Good job, Spark... good job.

[@VirtanenDK]

For "borrowing" an old discovery dok, slam some ads on, and post it here. That's really good work 👏 lol

[@Bianca_Toeps]

OH NO! THE SUSPENSE!

[@poyed88]

The elevator move takes a lot guts, skill and courage, the tower move is nothing compared to the elevators. They make it look more difficult than it really is. The tower is travelling through flat concrete surface, the elevators are travelling through snowy, dirt and hilly roads.

[@sweetkellymay]

" Where's that 3 feet of snow..."

[@colinvanful]

spark ! could you possibly put a few more adverts in the vidieo please ?

[@derrekvanee4567]

KZbin vanced / tamper monkey / browser extensions. Done no more ads. Plus 1 for opera with trackers a d script blocking with VPN a la csrte

[@paulsuprono7225]

vidieo . . . SP, Hmmmmmmm . . . . . .

[@paulsuprono7225]

volinvanful . . . are you 'grown up,' gone thru elementary english spelling ? 😬

[@paulsuprono7225]

. . . . . . please ?

[@iankendrick5282]

Watchingfrom Australia i worked for Ainscough cranes and put the frame for jacking up it up in the final position many years ago i lived in Hayes next to Heathrowand worked on terminal 5

[@juliecasey5196]

Awesome

[@bril5057]

Interesting video. Stupid question time: was is such a problem to build it where it needed to be?

[@nineteen-sixty-nine9373]

I would have thought the airport tower would be taller,I originally asumed that this was the top half of it.

[@Calidore1]

So how did they lift the control tower onto the moving platforms? That bit seemed to be skipped over!

[@bend1119]

The units themselves can raise and lower hydraulically, as seen in how they self level for the ramp . So they just drive under on the lowest setting and raise them up.

[@Yaman-D-Chhaya]

Infact here the case is tower will call aircraft to alert them, "please go around tower crossing runway" or it would be rather funny if a helicopter is watching the move and calls tower, " Heathrow tower turn next taxiway"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 but a great feat, great job by all great technicians and engineers👍👍

[@sexynelson100]

LHR is so congested that aircraft need to circle in stacks for landing because they are waiting for a parking space.. and the central area once sank within itself during construction work because of so much previous work done there.. ..also Terminal 5 was in the Guiness Book of Records for longest ever public enquiry into its approval.. 5 - 6 years.. Within that time SPL CDG and FRA airports all surpassed LHR and continue to do so while it stil ponders over new runway

[@VirtanenDK]

This is an older Discovery dok !! huge moves, with 13 ads 👏 come on dude. I am surprised you don't get a strike....Soon its just like a TV show with commercials, all that we used to love 😆

[@benjaminmitchell15]

Please make all these available in UK

[@SCOHunter]

They are ?

[@sexynelson100]

Well... I'm in UK.. and it seems to be working fine.

[@Unknown_Ooh]

VPN

[@hillaryclinton1232]

Manitoba Worker say" "Watch out for Hoosers

[@umvhu]

A "rout" is a military defeat, a "route" is the path of a journey.

[@HulkSith89]

Welcome to Michigan, Mother nature here is on here period 247 365. For the 2020/ 2021 snow year we only had a month to a month and a half of snow.

[@ratcrib]

26:49 Aaron Rodgers?

[@avrdr2067]

This can be a aviation meme material

[@Skipbo000]

this story could have been told in 3 minutes.

[@randomxm-1875]

Got to get that ad money

[@jamesbeckwith3639]

@@randomxm-1875 They definitely did get their monies worth out of the ads... I think there was one nearly every 3 minutes towards the end

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

A steep hill? Who knew? How did that get there?

[@eagle2019]

How much would it have cost to build five new grain towers versus the cost to move? What does it cost for a move like this???

[@justbe4481]

It cost far less to move buildings then to build a new one.

[@eagle2019]

@@justbe4481 I can possibly agree if these were office buildings or other type occupied building that have complex electrical and mechanical systems but these are grain silos. Not very complex. I would love to know what this move cost.

[@garywatersjr8959]

Grain silo's can actually be quite expensive. Depends on the silo. Ask Elon Musk! Lol.

[@DarkKatzy013]

Probably way less to build new stuff. The move would be freaking expensive.

[@DarkKatzy013]

@@justbe4481 yeah I don't see that. Moving those buildings would be wicked expensive.

[@13minutestomidnight]

The team moving those silos seemed to be really risking their necks in that move. The conditions and terrain clearly just heightened the difficulty, but that just did not look safe. Were there any other safety measures the client could have paid for?

[@keyurpatel9914]

37.24 someone still using nokia 3315 mobile phone 😛

[@derrekvanee4567]

I think this aired on discovery Canada about 12 years ago. But aome industries still use brick phones.

[@justindb18]

@@derrekvanee4567it aired in February 2005.

[@K21_KXW]

Surely it would have been easier to just build a new grain tower....and cheaper!

[@justindb18]

This grain elevator was only ten years old when they moved it in 2004. It was built in 1994.

[@robinmyman]

Marvellous what one can do with Bluetooth. 😂

[@kylehazachode]

I thought the thumbnail was a new pour over coffee maker

[@gunhimdown]

Chalk and Cheese! farm yard Canadian Boys with rusty equipment and old trucks vs Highly educated Engineering Consultants with Millions of £££s of specialized equipment. "We have to postpone over the slightest chance of lightning" VS "well, this piece of string with a bolt attached says its fine! LoadErUp!" hahaha. same result! well done to the Canadians! hahah

[@justbe4481]

Just some good old boys that big stuff ain't nothing to move for them. LOL snow freezing rain no problem. 😂👍

[@captaincessna7897]

Hang on, a cafe was moved from one side of the street to the other to get more customers...............that is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard!

[@Destroy5000]

Business is booming

[@Jimyjames73]

That does sound silly 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@andygee8716]

Those Italian platforms aren't new technology. Watch an old episode of Thunderbirds where a Concorde like jet's undercarriage failed and Thunderbird 2 brought 3 of those remote platforms in so that the jet could land safely, one under each wing and one under the nose, with Virgil Tracey at the controls.

[@winotiger123]

How many adverts do you need?

[@jasonstation]

Very interesting show but not a fan of this new TV trend of chopping and changing between scenarios.

[@jraybye]

grain bins

[@Unknown_Ooh]

If the grain tower location has rail road tracks and the exact location where it needs to go has rail road tracks why not just load them onto rail cars??

[@bunnyrabbit936]

the weight would most likely damage the tracks not to mention less control when stopping and no ability to turn as your be on a track

[@justindb18]

They are two different tracks. La Rivière (where it came from) is a CP line that runs east to west across southern Manitoba. Somerset was a CN line that ran east to west across southern Manitoba 12 miles north of the La rivière track. The Somerset CN line was actually removed in 2007, 2 years after the elevator was set up in Somerset. So in other words, it was physically impossible to move down rail tracks because the tracks in the two towns shown here run parallel to each other 10 or more miles apart. Also owned by separate companies, these tracks don’t connect anywhere.

[@timferguson1593]

That move crew at Heathrow are a bunch of wimps. I've worked 36 hrs straight without a break. We were putting a roof on a 20 story building. Come on lads!!!!!

[@JackKing12.]

33:26 yup just in case drugs are being smuggled across the runway 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@martinc.720]

Opera in the background while you’re trying to listen....🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@markcraven8386]

I love it.

[@derrekvanee4567]

I'm Russia tower tall you. Just ask Eegor over here mister sparky da. Dat Canadian tall structure mover is tough like bear. Almost as tough as great leader Vladimiere. Tumb up do you. One plused.

[@abdullahafif6268]

mortal engine in real life

[@Calidore1]

How come air travel is going to double in the next two decades? When will it stop?

[@BrettBaker]

7:18 Nope. Heathrow is not the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic. That would be Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International and it's been number one for many years including when this video was made back in 2007.

[@martinjohnson4264]

World’s busiest international ( not domestic)) although Dubai now probably has that claim

[@udaysinhranavaya8478]

Moving the tower at Heathrow airport They had to get dogs to sniff out drugs in the tower. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@BestPlconEarth50]

How much you think minty charged to move those shits?

[@siamasban]

Londen's Heathrow is Not the World's Busiest Airport Its Europe's Busiest........Atlanta'S Heartsfield Jackson is JUST A CORRECTION....

[@lukeamato2348]

Hate to have to call ya out but at the beginning you said it was a cafe moving across the road but that’s wrong , it was a train station that’s now an art gallery in Whitby ontario

[@lukeamato2348]

I imagine the rest is bullshitted aswell

[@infinite2246]

Let’s be honest, everyone was skipping that house in Canada

[@ckm-mkc]

Should waited until the Corona showed up, no planes to worry about....

[@liamgibson7471]

I only have one complaint, where is the Grammarly ad?

[@jamesbeckwith3639]

What was with all the ads towards the end there was one nearly every 3 minutes... they were only about 5 seconds long but it was really annoying

[@josephthames2205]

40-inches in 40-feet is 8.33%.... Not 10%

[@saulsavelis575]

2005

[@justindb18]

The elevator move happened between November 24 and December 2, 2004. It was prepared for moving starting in September 2004.

[@scottleft3672]

Tripods mother ship.

[@saifus7025]

HUGE MOVES (S01E02). Fyi! :)

[@matthewcncsutton5283]

Why the hell did they search the tower for drugs?? Laugh my ass off!

[@randomxm-1875]

Prop finding the yellow things called ads make that bread it's some strong s*** I must admit

[@jimleon7894]

Horribly mistitled!

[@bazza945]

Hmmm, it's too early for April Fool's Day.

[@malcolmmackinney5418]

They're not towers they're called granaries or silos.

[@justindb18]

Grain elevator. The 3 steel bins are called bins or sometimes but rarely called silos. The other structure that’s not as tall as the main elevator is called an annex.

[@justindb18]

Granaries are small “bins” that can still be seen on some farmyards that are made of wood. They predate the steel bins that have been used from the 1960s through to today.

[@creepychris420]

holy shit one man doing this with fully automated wheels and other guy manual like a lil bish. 5m or 6 months lol. buy a wheelie thing dude

[@SkyLineR34GT-R]

2005 video uploaded as if current, really spark?

[@cmcarlile]

Aren't these men a little old to be playing with dollies?

[@martinc.720]

Only one thing: my ads were interrupted by an outdated video.

[@TheRabbitFear]

Talking about pounds in a country that uses pounds as currency is not very smart

[@Torahboy1]

Erm..... if it had been a disaster...... we would have heard about it. So. No point watching. I’m only really here for the adverts.

[@NathansWargames]

this commentator is a total chad I bet he's ripped and has tons of ladies asking for his number

[@paulkushnir2224]

Only a mile on hard level surface with so much tech and the ancients moved giant blocks of stone over the country side many miles no tech who was Superior ?

[@davidmurray6389]

Your moving it from A to B what’s up with you, get on with it.

[@DSPrints_]

Item in restricted area and needs to be checked .. it’s a bloody building!! It’s gunna sit in the airport for its entire life! Not something smuggled in a luggage. Absolutely stupid and pathetic waste of time!

[@johnmac1960]

Not wasting my time on this!

[@73Shakes]

A little over dramatize . Weed out all the dramatic talk and this video would be 12 minutes long lol

[@whiteonggoy7009]

Yawn time to move on

[@user-ft4bi2lu8j]

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[@HDTravelAviation]

The amount of ads in this video is ridiculous

[@Raine-Cat]

They really didn't need to use gps to navigate I mean maps of the airport are public knowledge... google it for fuck sake, at the very least get taxi instructions from tower.

[@Papi2401]

yeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy im early

[@derrekvanee4567]

For what? Did this air on your Discovery Science Channel today?

[@md-thecleverandplayful4597]

Change your title. Grrr.

[@jonkipastramki3021]

The resonant baker impressively wrap because node multivariably untidy past a scarce sandwich. lovely, past marble

[@bosworthlast2347]

Pretty neat how the cost of moving that tower was paid for with the promise theyd haul passengers on planes, and here we are