Saturday, July 3, 2010

Brand new Crane

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Subject: FW: Brand new Crane

 Further proof that despite ones best intentions’ some days can just turned ugly ….. Real ugly !!!!


Brand new $4,000,000 Mobile Crane
Friday
8:30am on the 26.09.08 at Castle Hill, Sydney Australia
9
days old 250 ton crane  (first Job)  
$8,500/
day to hire


Click here to download:
cid:image001.jpg@01CAD5A3.CDE34690 (140 KB)



The mistake was to place the crane on the 8 inch concrete slab
 
As soon as the jib was all the way out, the slab broke..


Click here to download:
cid:image002.jpg@01CAD5A3.CDE34690 (166 KB)

Click here to download:
cid:image003.jpg@01CAD5A3.CDE34690 (182 KB)

Click here to download:
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Crane balanced for about one hour before the rest of the slab gave way to the crane

Click here to download:
cid:image005.jpg@01CAD5A3.CDE34690 (159 KB)

Click here to download:
cid:image006.jpg@01CAD5A3.CDE34690 (158 KB)

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Except for the slightly harmed driver no one was hurt, but no one has seen the site manager since.


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