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Epic Cane Fail Video: Crane Drops Another Crane
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Re: Epic Cane Fail Video: Crane Drops Another Crane
That's gonna leave a mark! As long as no one was hurt the rest is fixable. It happened sort of quickly so I'm not sure I caught it but I'm wondering if part of the rigging failed. This operation is done fairly often in the construction of big buildings so I'm pretty sure they know how to pull it off - assuming everything stays intact.
Dan
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Re: Epic Cane Fail Video: Crane Drops Another Crane
I'm defending a company whose crane came over... state says they should have had a rope on the load (like the dude with the rope in this video).... I should said them this video and ask them why they think a rope would have prevented the accident..... I also agree with the mis-rigged statement - bet the clevis failed because it was overloaded....
in short... whoops. ;DDoing it all wrong since 1966
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It looks to me that they had the cables hooked to the four out-riggers, and that the right rear out-riggers failed to carry the load, as it's still hanging from the cable, and not hooked to the crane anymore.Jeremy George in Windsor NY
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The clevices they were using looked kinda small for the load.....plus, notice how the right side is sagging more than the left.
I'm saying several things came into nplay here...the lift cables weren't strong enough to support that kind of load, and that spread bar looks inadequate as well.
I'm no "expert", but I did load/transport heavy machinery for a living at one time.....and I can tell ya there'd be no way in hell I'd have rigged/attempted to lift that big-ass crane withthe setup they were employing.
Yeah, the "lead rope" tied to it made me laugh.
Smoke
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My two cents is still on improperly oriented clevices. I'd bet this move wasn't the first time any of these guys had done it (or may it was and that's why they were video'ing it....), and the orientation is easy to over look, even with an appropriately rated clevis. I think the sagging is an optical illusion created by the camera angle. I don't know any thing about spread bars.
**Our safety department has passed around heavily distorted clevices from setting up with the wrong orientation while towing stuck loaded haul trucks out of mud holes and from lifting haul truck beds.Escaped on a technicality.
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