Moving a tower crane to a helicopter construction office

[barry.zandstra]

Is it even possible? I've produced a couple of tower cranes to be used by my new helicopter construction offices, but I can't get the truck to deliver the crane to the CO. I can't base an open truck at a helicopter construction office, so the normal route won't work.

Is the only way to get a tower crane to a helicopter construction office to buy it there?

[HawKeYeIII3]

You have to buy the necessary helicopters first. Only then is a crane available from the helicopter construction office.

[barry.zandstra]

I have helicopters.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2610607423

What am I doing wrong?

[HawKeYeIII3]

I can't find a fault with you. It should work.
Maybe because you have the big helicopter platforms. Try to build the little ones at the helicopter construction office.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2610672157

[johntarmac]

Try attaching a cargo heliport to your vehicle production and transport the tower crane with a helicopter from there to the construction office.

[bajecznie nawdychany]

1st of all:
You can not use 75m tower cranes in HeliCO, they are simply too big for them. You can use 45m.
2nd:
Not all vehicles can transport tower cranes, even not all of the open hulls - You need to sort them (trucks, open hulls) by capacity and use the biggest one without borders on its hull.
It should do the trick.

[viceroypenguin]

Yes, there is a way to do this. You have to attach a heliport to a regular CO, similar to attaching the heliport to the asphalt or concrete plants. Once attached, you can land a helicopter there, load up the mechanism normally (same way you would load the mechanism onto a truck), and transfer the helicopter to the heli CO.

[barry.zandstra]

Thanks everyone! I finally figured it out.

The thing I was doing wrong is trying to move the 75m crane to the helicopter construction office. I checked the weight limit and figured it should work, but this is not true.

Having read through the tips here, I also tried a few things that did not work.

@Morpheus - Buying is no problem at all, but I was trying to move a tower crane I had produced in my own republic. It did work (with the smaller crane) with the triple platforms.

@viceroypenguin - You can not attach a heliport to a regular CO. You can tell when planning because the building does not turn green. Of course, you can build them next to each other, but they do not connect.

@johntarmac - Your tip gave me the most trouble!:
What's this? No option to load vehicles?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2611570172

Never mind, it loaded a vehicle just fine. Sadly, it is a trolley bus, not a tower crane. Trolley buses do not go in COs. It does not seem to want to offload at a cargo platform with vehicle storage attached, either. Oh dear. I know, I'll export the trolley bus since it is a brand new vehicle! Look, the helicopter is back from the Western countries!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2611570207

Unfortunately, so is the trolley bus. I ended up scrapping the helicopter. But then finally, a KMZ 5410 open hull was able to do the job!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2611570249

@bajecznie nawdychany - Thank you for pointing out the size factor, which I had not considered!

[viceroypenguin]

Originally posted by barry.zandstra:

@viceroypenguin - You can not attach a heliport to a regular CO. You can tell when planning because the building does not turn green. Of course, you can build them next to each other, but they do not connect.

Ah - you're correct. I'm so used to the modded COs which do have a heliport capture range that I forgot that the vanilla CO does not have one. Sorry! :)