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We do quite a bit of tree work with cranes - the lift plan always works on 50% SWL max. Start small and work up to get a sense of timber weight - can make surprisingly accurate ‘guesstimates’. Having a good crane driver makes a world of difference - it’s important that they don’t overtighten before cutting because they are shitting themselves - that’s when things go bang!would love to see the RAMS for that.... ... "we confidently predict the weight of said lump of tree will be ... "
hated tree work with a crane ... ****ers were always well shy/lying through their teeth, on their guesstimates ... and i always tried to be well over cap. at reach .. you can't put the bloody thing down once it's been lopped off, to have a re-rig
absolutely ..... 's why an accurate figure is needed, so you take the right amount of tension .... too little and it heads downwards, 'kin quickly; too little and it heads skywards, just as quickly .... either way is a seat foam moment as cranes do not like shock loading .... tends to pull 'em over
Yeah then there's Magni's
Off topic slightly, but did you see the latest top gear stunt with crane over a huge dam and bungee a car over the end? Talk about shock loading!!absolutely ..... 's why an accurate figure is needed, so you take the right amount of tension .... too little and it heads downwards, 'kin quickly; too little and it heads skywards, just as quickly .... either way is a seat foam moment as cranes do not like shock loading .... tends to pull 'em over
I think the crane driver’s balls were as big as Freddie Flintoff’s!!!
And he was short rigged! I saw that episode and having done the Appointed Persons course some years ago - I certainly wouldn't have wanted my name on the lift plan!
Regardless of all the calcs, I wouldn’t be sat in the crane when the car went off, bugger that!
... sod signing off on those calcs ....... sooooooooooooooooo many variables ...... as for being in either seat ... **** that for a game of soldiers ..... not enough bucks in the world to get me in either seat
I got the impression that the dam would never have allowed it to happen if they were not 500% sure that the calcs were spot on and good. The risk to life if the crane toppled and cracked the dam!totally, utterly agree with all the above guys ..... short rigged, flat boom, shock load, although the load would have built up gradually, to whatever that would've weighed at the terminal velocity at the distance it travelled .. vertically
ain't it just ... cheap piece of kit that
How long will it take to drive it back home??
depends how far you are from Immingham ... DFDS come in there .. gonna need a trailer though for all the bits to load that as ro ro in Brevik or do they still operate out of Bergen, Frank?
Brevik still???About 15 hours at 30 kph to reach the only fairy going to UK