Hermit
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Very nasty video of an overloaded crane toppling onto a yacht in Finland. No injuries apparently but lucky escape.
WATCH: Falling crane sinks yacht
WATCH: Falling crane sinks yacht
Toppling Crane
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LONG_KEELER
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Terrifying ! !
On a more positive note. Noticed on the link you posted encouraging news from Fairline Boats
Recruitment drive at Fairline Yachts
starfire
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Brown trousers moment for the crane driver
penfold
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Kronstadt is in Russia. They don't do H&S in Russia, or sobriety while operating heavy machinery.
Hermit
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Sorry, yes. Just saw Gulf of Finland and didn't read it properly.
Frogmogman
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Kronstadt is where CMBs of the Royal Navy, inspired by Augustus Agar VC’s 1919 sinking of the Russian cruiser Oleg in CMB4, attacked the Bolshevik navy in harbour, resulting in the award of 2 more VCs.
The Royal Navy Attacks on Kronstadt, Russia, 1919 and 3 VCs
There is quite a readable book about the whole episode called Operation Kronstadt by Harry Ferguson.
CMB4 is tucked away in a corner at the IWM Duxford, where she seems rather out of place.
RichardS
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This seems to happen surprisingly often. I believe that mobile cranes usually have an overload warning system but perhaps some operators simply ignore it?
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starfire
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Yes they do. It shows the rated load for the setup of the crane at that time & the load on the hook
An alarm goes off at 90% of capacity.
That's if it was even working or setup correctly.
Some of the time it's the operator not extending the stabiliser legs all the way, but telling the safeload they are all the way out.
Spent a good chunk of my life driving the big ones, some jobs were standing small cranes back up again
An alarm goes off at 90% of capacity.
That's if it was even working or setup correctly.
Some of the time it's the operator not extending the stabiliser legs all the way, but telling the safeload they are all the way out.
Spent a good chunk of my life driving the big ones, some jobs were standing small cranes back up again
Slowboat35
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All to easy to do, judging from the number of such incidents on Yoube. Between the eejits that simply don't bother to think about load and extension to those that probably just accept "Oh? Four tons mate I expect" - and then act on it unquestioningly.
Darwinism is everywhere...
Darwinism is everywhere...
Concerto
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Should have used a bigger crane.
Agree about the final 10% limit with a crane ringing a bell. In the very late 1960's my father employed a crane to lift out a similar size yacht. Capacity was 12 tons, but we rang the bell once clear of the water. The craner driver advised he was close to the limit but believed he could complete the lift. It was lifted very slowly and nudged in as close to the wall as soon as possible until the bell stopped. For the lift back in, we used a larger crane for safety. 50 years ago there were very few crane hire firms that had any cranes larger than 12 tons.
Agree about the final 10% limit with a crane ringing a bell. In the very late 1960's my father employed a crane to lift out a similar size yacht. Capacity was 12 tons, but we rang the bell once clear of the water. The craner driver advised he was close to the limit but believed he could complete the lift. It was lifted very slowly and nudged in as close to the wall as soon as possible until the bell stopped. For the lift back in, we used a larger crane for safety. 50 years ago there were very few crane hire firms that had any cranes larger than 12 tons.
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If the crane operator had been safety conscious he'd have applied this technique.
starfire
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Lol
