With its 70 ft boom, the crane was the hero of the day. A platform was constructed to lift rafters and roofing steel into place in minutes. Workers could secure a rafter at the ridge and the crane would gently lower the platform along the roofline, allowing each long rafter to be drawn off and left in its proper place, ready for nailing. The sheet steel was distributed in the same way. It was very simple and very quick. Without the crane, the construction of the walls and the roof could not have been completed.