Big Carl: The Crane Built for a Single Nuclear Power Plant

Construction workers gave it a nickname before engineers even finished explaining what it actually was. Big Carl isn't a crane that happened to get assigned to a nuclear power station — it was designed, built, and shipped in hundreds of separate truckloads specifically because no existing crane on Earth could lift what this one project required. It doesn't move on tracks like a conventional crane. It rotates on its own massive ring, taller than a football stadium, capable of lifting entire reactor components that weigh more than a fully loaded jumbo jet. In this video, we go inside Big Carl — the nuclear project that demanded a crane nobody had ever built before, the ring-based engineering that makes it possible, and why this machine will likely only ever work at one place on Earth. New video every day. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss one. #MachineTitans #HeavyEquipment #BigCarl #Sarens #NuclearConstruction