crane failure

crane failing due to poor operation,nearly kiling both driver and tree cutter,but both are now ok

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• crane
• timber
• falling
• failure
• trees
• forestry

[powertrp]

try extending the outriggers and putting them down , or how about working over the rear - was the climber killed?

I'm an owner operator, education is a wonderful thing

[69shiftitdefender]

climber and operator survived.

operator was fined by the HSE for failure to attach counter weights among other things

[y2knoproblem]

Is that why they require $1,000,000 liability insurance to rent one?

[nickymagz622]

operator kept trying to boom up instead of just letting the winchline out quickly .

[mugwump666]

@JakeAnnetts I guess that makes sense. But there is no way to tell how big a chunk to cut at a time, right, how much it will weigh? So the moral of the story is that they should have cut the tree into smaller pieces?

[JakeAnnetts]

@mugwump666 IN my experience as a tree surgeon back in the 80's and 90's, the crane is used to stop the timber falling in the first place. Often you can't drop the tree. It might be in a confined space, or on a big slope. Buildings might be in the way. The crane 'usually' grabs the bit of tree and hoists it out of the way. In this case it looks like it was over stretched.

[fowzie777]

"we're going to need another crane..."

[fowzie777]

is it not supposed to do that?

[PInk77W1]

@Origional79s my thoughts exactly. All the time setting up,and  all the expensive investments not to mention insurance and on and on. We are born with 650 muscles and afraid to use them. i dont get it.

[PInk77W1]

@bulletman100 smaller sections is what i was thinking. Whatever the capacity of your equipment is just divide by 10 and you probably wont be on the news tonite

[PInk77W1]

@mugwump666 it could of been a big downhill slope or it could of been something of value under the tree that needed to be protected . To be honest with u , i dont get it either.

[mugwump666]

Maybe I am not getting it because of the angle or something....What exactly is the point of hitching the crane to trunk BEFORE it is cut down? Is it just to save a few minutes hitching up the crane cause it is harder after the trunk is on the ground? Or is there some other reason for doing it that way? Seems kinda stupid if you don't know how much the trunk weighs and just suddenly throw that weight on the crane.

When the trunk is cut, all that potential energy turns into kinetic energy.

[7y6t8u]

Во бля дебилы- с поленом ебанулись...

[bulletman100]

cut smaller sections at a time when out over the side like this, if you cant work off the back.