Overloaded???
thats all i have to say. Dumb
12-20-2006, 09:22 PM
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I havent figured out what they were doing. Were they just trying to hold it up? Why else would you put both cranes on the same side of the tower, and there sure are a whole lot of better demo ways then two cranes.
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12-21-2006, 07:31 AM
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Someone missed one heck of an opportunity for some fun pics. I'd like to hook my truck to the end of the red/gray crane's cable, and stand there proudly.
12-21-2006, 09:28 PM
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Something similar happened just south of Waco, Tx the Sunday after T-Giving. A crane was trying to move a concrete divider that was originally in the median of I-35 before a produce truck pushed it into the southbound lane. It (the crane) tipped over and crushed a firetruck. Between the wreck and the crane incident the freeway was prettty much shut down for over 9 hours and traffic was backed up 20 miles in both directions.
12-22-2006, 12:40 AM
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Looks to me like they were trying to lay the tower down on it's side. The tower rotated around and the yellow crane took all the weight. Obviously overloaded the yellow crane and down she went taking the red/white crane with it.
Third pic shows the secondary hook on the far crane swinging off at a good angle at the top of the boom so something is moving in a hurry.
Jeff
Third pic shows the secondary hook on the far crane swinging off at a good angle at the top of the boom so something is moving in a hurry.
Jeff
12-22-2006, 09:24 AM
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We had an equipment operator run into some power lines while moving a tree with a forklift. The tires on the forklift caught fire! Thank god he was fine, but that was his last day. He had already smashed the foreman's truck with a dozer and accidently killed some lovestock that year. It was just too dangerous to keep him around. 
