Amazing crane sequence

[Bertram65]

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1689896

 

[AfterBurner]

:--) That's awesome!

 

[Rotty]

If you look very carefully, you can see where the safety arm/feet? lost its footing and it them went into the drink. Also he was only using one of the safety arms.



Look at the second truck, it is quite a bit back from the edge.



All I can say is stuff happens :{

 

[Tcolesanti]

He first was using the wrong kind of crane. He obviously did'nt take into account the forces at hand while lifting a submerged object, and finally he did'nt have all the outriggers out. He probably would have done a lot better if he had backed the truck to the edge of the dock and lifted the car off the rear of the truck also using the truck engine as a counterwieght. But in the end he had the wrong crane for the job.

 

[NPloysa]

The second crane was pretty cool. I like the tandem front axles and the funky boom.

Cool!

 

[mikel]

It looked like the first crane was just too small no matter what was done. I think he was lifting over the side trying for every last inch of clearance he could get, look at how close the front of that car is to the wall in the 2nd picture. It must have tipped when they started swinging it, otherwise I can't imagine that it would have even picked the car up at all. Over the front or over the rear would have been better as far as stability, but overall they should have just started off with a bigger crane.



From the way their day was going I did expect to see the big one fall into the water while trying to rescue the small one though...



That kind of day just plain bites.



Mike

 

[The patriot]

If you liked that one.....

The second crane was pretty cool. I like the tandem front axles and the funky boom.

Cool!

I wish I had pictures of the crane that lifted the new reactors into my plant.

They weighed a few hundred tons (I forget exactly how much) and had to go up 6 stories.

Cameras aint allowed on site.

Also, ours didnt flip like that.

Eric

 

[loncray]

Let us all be happy that cranes with reactors don't flip! I wish I'd gotten pictures of the two cranes that were putting a tank in place at the semiconductor plant nearby - the truck with the tank on it was about the size of three semis in a row, with several sets of wheels down the length of the tank.



And yes, I was waiting for the picture of the second crane going into the drink too.

 

[GFritsch]

More fun with cranes here http://www.craneaccidents.com/