Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: July 13, 2007 01:48AM

10-1 odds says that operator will have a tough time gettin another crane operating gig

ORLANDO399 Report This Comment
Date: July 13, 2007 04:12AM

Out of curiousity is this real?

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: July 13, 2007 09:17AM

it certainly looks real...although it seems a bit odd that the outriggers are not fully extended on the far side...

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: July 13, 2007 01:45PM

The outriggers would be slightly less extended on that side since they were set on slightly higher ground (the yard versus the lower street side). Is is unusual to see outriggers set on dirt/ground without pads to distribute the load though.

I've looked at this and tried to figure how in the world an operator could have picked up any kind of load that would have resulted in such an accident without it having been felt the machine was about to lay over and can't get a handle on it.

Anytime you have a stable load in "lift mode" the operator should sense an impending problem and just stop or let it down!

Short of pure operator failure all I can think of is that he had hooked on to some kinda load that shifted when it was already off the ground and then tipped over the crane. Wish we could see what he was attempting to pick up.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: July 13, 2007 01:46PM

Ooops, bumped the rez a bit higher and see there are pads ..... my bad !

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: July 14, 2007 05:22PM

Now, the next question that comes to mind is what was the load ?,
an AC system, nope too light a load for such a heavy crane,
pool equipment ?, looks photoshopped to me...unless the home owner is building a bomb shelter

zxz555 Report This Comment
Date: August 23, 2007 10:02PM

It´s obvious this is a Transformer and not a real crane. You poeple are so stupid sometimes you can´t see the truth staring you in the (ugly) face.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: September 09, 2008 03:49AM

real...video here