Do cranes or fall down?

frobisher

I mean the really big ones that are basically all over Dublin. When they're built does somebody make sure that there are no other cranes within reach? Sometimes the really look like they could hit each other. Imagine the damage if one of the feel in an urban area.:eek:

Mods: I wrote "or" instead of "ever" in the title, can you change it?

fuzzywiggle

Yes there is someone there to make sure the cranes don't hit each other - a banksman

whiskeyman

one collapsed in Ringsend two years ago

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0201/crane.html

danniemcq

weird that gift grub sketch about that crane came on my playlist when i was readin this

EWheelChair

I've seen clips of cranes collapsing, but its very rare.

Contractors can't afford to mess around when setting up cranes, so everything is done precisily and carefully. You'll never get an instance of two cranes colliding.

matu

What a question I have never seen a crane alling down but I can only Imagine the damage it would cause.
I wonder how they get the things down that must be a job in it self.

EWheelChair

http://craneaccidents.com/bigblue.mpg

Here's a clip of the worst one ive seen.

Plug

The tower cranes are fairly strong. They have 120 tonnes of counter weights at the bottom of the crane and can stand wind speeds up to 170mph(leabher ones anyway):eek: TBH I wouldn't have the balls to climb one.
You might learn something here http://science.howstuffworks.com/tower-crane4.htm

Sofaspud

Nothing to do with collisions, but I recently found out that the reason that most fall over is that they leave their brakes on. Cranes always point the same way when they're not in use, with their "arses to the wind" so to speak. This is because the brakes are left off, so the wind can blow it freely, so there's the least air resistance possible.

There's the useless fact for today!

youcancallmeal

Could make for a good reality show, something like "When Cranes Fall Down, Part 5"

matu

That is some video footage there, dont forget the driver was in the top of that Imagine the shock he would have got to be falling from that hieght trapped in the cab.

Plug

The man in the crane got out but 2 men in a basket suspended from a cable and a man on the ground died:eek: Saw that on discovery channel.

matu

That is a shame but very lucky that more werent killed or hurt.

Sparky

youcancallme>al wrote:

Could make for a good reality show, something like "When Cranes Fall Down, Part 5"

LOL
Reminds me of the small film we made entitled "When lockers fall down Part 2"

/cue small 1st year kid getting book and Ahhhhhh.

matu

Sparky-s wrote:

LOL
Reminds me of the small film we made entitled "When lockers fall down Part 2"

/cue small 1st year kid getting book and Ahhhhhh.

this that for real I would like to see that.

Sparky

matu wrote:

this that for real I would like to see that.

It was actually crap, rope and camera cuts is what made it look semi real.

A lot of work for 10mins of video.