How do you take a crane down without using another crane?

Crane … how do you deconstruct it when the job's done? Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

How do you take a crane down without using another crane? And what holds the big lump of counterbalancing concrete in place?

Will Dean, Aylesbury, Bucks

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