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[JR]

This was on an overpass about a half mile from work. Truck driver showed up with a load of stone with specific instructions on where to dump it. Only problem, the crane was in the way and the crew had gone to lunch. You can probably figure the rest out

 

[HDR]

I work on Lorain RT (Rough Terrain ) cranes, although they're much older than the one in the picture. The operator has to be certified, the crane has to be inspected every month, the wire rope has to be inspected every month and measured, the crane has to be certified by certified crane inspector and tested to 60% of the cranes capacity, and 90% every four years. I can tell you this truck driver is in a world of **** right now.

I would not want to be him lol.

 

[JR]

HDR, I learned how to operate on an LRD 275, very similar to the one in the picture. It was a mid 90s with a 12 valve cummins. That was what we had in the yard to load steel when i was hangin iron. Ive since switched careers, but still operate occasionally. Weve got a less than one year old Grove 25 ton crane, a Grove RT955 (55 ton) and a 9130 (130 ton), all with cummins engines. The new technology in these cranes sure is a world of difference from the old dinosaur lever cranes!
I agree with ya on the trucker bieng in a world of dung he was probably sitting in a pile of it when he went over too!
I went by later in the day and they already had it back on its wheels and had it running, loading it up on a trailer.

 

[Wayne M.]

I work on Lorain RT (Rough Terrain ) cranes, although they're much older than the one in the picture. The operator has to be certified, the crane has to be inspected every month, the wire rope has to be inspected every month and measured, the crane has to be certified by certified crane inspector and tested to 60% of the cranes capacity, and 90% every four years. I can tell you this truck driver is in a world of **** right now.

I would not want to be him lol.

The welder in my shop was a rigging contractor at the philly navy yard. . He knows stuff you mention above, and talks about it often. Usually guys involved with this type of machinery are well versed and conservative people. I wonder what really happened?
I can't believe that rescue dude is standing under that axle...

 

[HDR]

The cranes I work on are RT 30 (30 ton ), RT 27. 5, RT 300. All of them are the same with just different ratings LOL. They all have 6V53 supercharged and 4 of them have been updated to 6. 7 Cummins. They have 5/8'' 19x7 non-twist rope. They're so old I can't get many of the parts any more and often have to go to a machine shop and have things made. I'll post a few pics later.

 

[JR]

At my previous job we also had a 35 ton grove that was probably 10 years newer than our Lorain 275 (27. 5 ton). Even though the grove had another 8 tons capacity, the load charts were quite similar. Our older Lorain you could literally tip the crane before inflicting any damage to the boom and the newer Grove had the structural charts where if over loaded in certain configurations you could damage the boom before the crane would tip.

The owner of my previous company also had a marina. Twice a year he would take the Lorain down and set docks in the spring and pull them in the fall. He would set that crane up right along the bank in the middle of 6 docks and he could just reach the 2 outer most docks with his boom all the way out (and pretty far down). He was well over the limits of the crane with such a low boom angle and nearly every set he had those outrigger pads just a rockin in the sockets picking them out of the water :-laf. Whenever i was on the buisiness end of a load and he was in the crane I always made sure I was not in between him and the load, but I can honestly say hes by far the best and smoothest operator Ive ever seen. He could look at something and tell you right away wether something was doable or not... and in 20 plus years hes never been wrong. I see alot of operators that come in from ALL Crane and while they are good operators they all rely on the electronics of the machine and the LMI too much. I often wonder what they would do if they had to run a crane without an LMI or if they were forced to run an old dino crane like I was taught on