Crane flips, operator bails out

[bcp]

about 3 second after tilt starts.

He would have had a wild ride and maybe not survived if he was slower.

Jump ahead to about 3:30

Bruce

 

[Cat_Driver]

OOOOPS

 

[boggen]

gone in a heart beat! wow!

 

[jpm1]

Wild ride down ? No way ! He would have been dead.

In the fall of 2009 I lost a truck mounted log loader that went over the side of a mountain. The ground gave way due to the heavy rains and unable to get a stable footing for the stabilizers. This was like the situation "Craig" on Axe Men worked in. Well over it went, I bailed out and the machine stopped about 400 feet down the mountain. It didnt look much like a loader when it finally landed. John

 

[Brad_Blazer]

Should have tested his reach with that load over solid ground. One of the lessons learned from the Thresher: Don't make a shakedown run over deep water.

 

[Baby Grand]

Ballast, ballast, ballast ... and solid earth (or blocking) under the stabilizers.

 

[MoKelly]

Wow. That was horrible. If they couldn't get the dozer down there without a crane how in the world will they ever get all that equipment back up. Seems they now have to build a road to get down there.

Amamzing how fast it can hit the fan.

MoKelly

 

[FTG-05]

Should have tested his reach with that load over solid ground. One of the lessons learned from the Thresher: Don't make a shakedown run over deep water.

I didn't see any issue with solid ground (or the lack of it). It appeared to me the back end of the crane (where truck cab is located) started lifting without the front (closest to the video-taker) not moving much if at all. Looks like not enough ballast or perhaps the front stabilizers weren't out enough - or both.

Another question: who is usually at fault in situations like this? The operator or is there an engineer that signs off on each lift or what?

 

[mikehaugen]

I think the crane was okay lifting the load at that reach. To me it seemed he decelerated the drop to quickly and it made the dozer heavier than it's actual weight (dynamic weight???).

 

[dusty3030]

Lucky Russian landed on his feet like a cat.

 

[dirt ditch]

Holy cow! That's one of those gotta change the shorts moments for the crane operator.

 

[cartod]

Another OSHA reportable moment.

 

[jimpen]

The operator was da*n lucky in his jump.

Story told too me years ago. Don't know how true.

A loaded cement truck was going up to a town outside of Denver. The road was one that followed the side of a mountain and basically had sheer drops on one side and cliff on the other. His brakes failed on one of the downhill slopes. Straight off the cliff to the bottom. It landed perfectly nose down and the cement barrel opened up like petals on a flower. It pretty much covered the whole front of the truck. The mourners hired a couple of climbing experts to take his mom down and affix a memorial plaque to the cement.

That was all they could really do.

 

[FTG-05]

I remember being in charge of a team over a decade ago that was responsible for moving a piece of space flight hardware for the International Space Station.

I could not believe the things we had to do to pick up a 400 lb piece of crated hardware. For example, to certify the crane for that lift, we had to lift a 4k lb piece of concrete and hold it for a minute (+/-).

Big change from the early days of the Space Station when someone dropped a +$1M carbon dioxide removal assembly off the back of a lift gate. The operator was summarily fired. That specific CDRA was refurbed by AiResearch (now Honeywell) and, as far as I know, it is still working in the 4755 building at Marshal Space Flight Center.

 

[Rock knocker]

Ballast, ballast, ballast ... and solid earth (or blocking) under the stabilizers.

A crane comes with the counter weight it comes with. You can't add counterweight to lift more, except with the manufacturers permission or options. The blocking seem fine. A pretty simple case of booming down with too much of a load

 

[Thomas]

After moment as such operator should go out buy lotto ticket..lucky.

 

[Scooby074]

*Cheesy Russian Accent on*
In Soviet Russia, crane computer for sissys...
*Accent off*