Alpen aan de Rijn crane recovery - live

[sailorman]

This is what happened
http://nos.nl/artikel/2050161-kranen-met-brugdeel-vallen-op-huizen-alphen-aan-den-rijn.html


http://nos.nl/artikel/2060773-eerste-kraan-alphen-weggetakeld.html

recovery
http://studioalphen.nl/kijk-televisie

 

[Tomahawk]

I hope the drivers are OK...

 

[sailorman]

Nobody killed when it happened, it could have so easily have been much different

I thought that the "Gas Axe" would be well used in the recovery

 

[sailorman]

now lifting a large crane jib away

 

[Twister_Ken]

Whoops!

 

[rgarside]

Unlike Mammoet to mess up - clearly them involved in the recovery, but it looked like their equipment in the original lift.

 

[ksutton]

Am also surprised to see that Mammoet did it this way, a very expensive mistake. The pre lift risk assessment should have set off more alarm bells. Dual lifts with mobile cranes are never the easiest to plan, but dual lifts from a floating pontoon or barge was always going to be an enormous challange.

 

[sailorman]

They are contracted to sort the cock-up mess.
access is an issue for jack-up barges hence the tandem lift. This is how the original deck was removed 2 yrs ago

 

[sailorman]

Now preparing to lift the bridge deck

http://studioalphen.nl/kijk-televisie

 

[rgarside]

This is how the original deck was removed 2 yrs ago

Well, maybe not exactly the same!!

It looks like it wasn't Mammoet doing the lift that went wrong. The removal of the old section was done quite a bit differently - didn't involve such big crane movements, but it looks as though they had first removed the counterbalance arm with a gas axe. It was not the same contractor doing the removal.

Some more info, incl video of removal, here:-
http://www.heavyliftnews.com/news/disaster-strikes-at-bridge-installation-in-the-netherlands

 

[rgarside]

Heres another view of the event:-
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/al...ng/shocking-crane-barge-accident-53859-2.html