Crane oops

TBrown · Dec 7, 2004

This may have been posted on TBN before.

Crane oops

EddieWalker · Dec 7, 2004

What an amazing sequence of photos!!!!

The first crane is a Mercedes but the second one I'm not sure about. First I thought it was a Volvo, but the close up shot of the grill didn't look right.

The set up on the second crane also is very stange. I guess those europeans have a different way of doing just about everything.

markie61 · Dec 7, 2004

I thought the "punchline" of the sequence was that the second crane was going to go over, too. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Mark

bczoom · Dec 7, 2004

( I thought the "punchline" of the sequence was that the second crane was going to go over, too. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Mark )

Me too (although what was posted was quite an issue). I kept hitting F5 to refresh the page to make sure I had all the pics.

chucko · Dec 7, 2004

in for forground is a guy in a grey jacket....look at pic 4....where did the guy go? they guy in the red sweatter only had time to turn but the other one is gone!

Deerlope · Dec 7, 2004

probably slipped on some brown stuff and fell in the water.

Nasty135 · Dec 7, 2004

( probably slipped on some brown stuff and fell in the water. )
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif That's a good'un

GerardC · Dec 7, 2004

Looks like the second crane should've been the first. Gerard

markct · Dec 8, 2004

while the stupidity of the crane operator amazes me, i am also very surprised that there is no barricade to prevent the car from driving in in the first place, not even thoe curb blocks they have at the edges of parking lots! i can see how a car easily could roll off the edge, or an intentive driver might not see the dropoff in the dark or fog. seems atleast a gaurdrail or curb woulda helped, im sure in the us lawyers would be all over whoever owned that place! i remember a while back at our local recycling center they had a guy drive into a dumpster, the demolition dumpsters are up against a tall wall so you can dump into them, the guy thought that was the road out and wasnt paying attention, the scary part is just about 5 minutes before that my father had been digging around inside that dumpster and probably woulda been killed had he been in there when they guy crashed his mazda pickup into there

Evasive1 · Dec 8, 2004

What I couldn't believe was that knowing that the first crane flipped into the water, there are still people standing between the big crane and the water when it is lifting out the other crane out of the water.

The White car looked in pretty good shape before the crane landed on top of it. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

skent · Dec 8, 2004

I think this one's supposed to follow:

bczoom · Dec 8, 2004

Steve,

Did you make that picture or is that really what happened?
If the latter, that does put a real punchline on this sequence of events. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Brian

Nasty135 · Dec 8, 2004

Close but no cigar! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

There would be some tracks in the gravel from the big rig sliding in the drink. But it does look good /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Mark_in_NH · Dec 8, 2004

This may seem harsh by some. But in my opinion, considering the way in which they were using the crane, the close proximity to the edge, NO stabilizers "that I can see", the angle that they are lifting at. They got exactly what they should have expected. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif and deserve for being just plain Stupid !!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I sincerely hope that no one was hurt.

GerardC · Dec 9, 2004

As I've said before," It's all in the rigging".
I worked in a factory once where the over head cranes were lifting upwards of 50 tons. I found it very interesting how the riggers made it look like buttering toast. Gerard

KubotaSteve · Dec 9, 2004

I thought something looked funny about that picture as well. It just didn't look quite normal, especially the cab of the truck. Also it appears the angle of that photo is different from the rest.

Soundguy · Dec 10, 2004

Well.. it serves the guy in the first crane right.. If you notice.. I don't see any indication of outriggers on his rig, and it is listing pretty spectacularly. At very least he should have winched off to a dock support member or other 'fixed' structure. I've seen a wrecker pull a county mowing tractor and 15' mower out of a retainage pond it fell in. They tied off to the base of a concrete stoplight post.. one of those bif 3-4' diameter jobs.. It didn't go anywhere.. however the 10k pounds of tractor an mower DID come out of the hole...

This crane issue is an example of 'stupid is expensive' at work. As with any work.. you need to pay attention... or you'll be doing it twice..

Soundguy

California · Dec 10, 2004

( At very least he should have winched off to a dock support member or other 'fixed' structure. I've seen a wrecker pull a county mowing tractor and 15' mower out of a retainage pond it fell in. They tied off to the base of a concrete stoplight post.. one of those bif 3-4' diameter jobs.. It didn't go anywhere. -Soundguy )

Reminds me of an audit visit I made to a state DOT construction office. Big news of the day was that their newly-completed runaway truck ramp on a long downgrade had just received its first customer late last night. A fully loaded moving van, and it had run the full length of the gravel pit and got buried to the floorboards with no damage beyond dented fuel tanks. Everyone was pleased that the new facility worked as intended and averted a serious accident.

The bad news was that the wrecker who extracted it had pulled down the lightpole at the entrance. That was the only thing to tie off to, and hadn't been designed as an anchor point. Back to the drawing board...

755inNY · Dec 10, 2004

That picture is a fake. Someone took the picture with the first crane in the water and pasted in the second crane. Note the cars and people in the background. Those cars were not there for the the second crane lift. They were there during the first crane lift.

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2004

The pictures are real. Check Snopes.com here and you will see that there was a version of these photos where the second crane goes in as well. That one was fake. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif