Not motorcycle related

My new toy at work
300ton with 230 ft of boom

now that is a BIG bugger!!

Gonna need some rain rainman

Kevin frazier said:

Gonna need some rain rainman

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A little late I believe

My new toy at work 200 ton linkbelt crane

Be careful on that thang.



However, during the installation, the left crane malfunctioned and dropped the side of the beam it was holding, leading to a loud crash and impact that shook both cranes.

Cranes are very dangerous things. Someone posted an eye-watering vid on a tree surgery forum I was on back along. Think it was in north Africa somewhere.
A guy was sitting in a Y-shaped crook of a huge cedar tree. The half of the Y nearest the camera had snapped off in a storm unbalancing the tree and this guy was straddling the remaining limb with his legs dangling and attempting to cut it through with a 24" saw. The limb must have been two feet across and he was cutting through it right in front of his legs and groin with no hope of an escape route. I was watching it through my fingers. There were so many things that could have gone horribly wrong.
He cut nearly all the way through without incident and the limb creaked, broke off and swung away from him. I thought, phew, he's done it. He's got away with it. What you couldn't see because out was out of shot was that the limb he was cutting was attached to a crane by a steel cable and when he'd cut it through and it swung clear the weight must have been too much for the crane tipping it over because the next instant the crane boom came crashing down into shot from above and slammed him square on top of the head crushing him like a tin can. Youtube have since taken the vid down because it's basically a snuff movie. Terrible. The only blessing is he wouldn't have known a thing about it.

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