Good things to do to a Tornado, and this was not one of them..
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This was posted over on Britmodeller by "Pete in Riyadh" in response to the Photos...
"I wondered when these pics would turn up on here. We saw them weeks ago.
Your basic Tonka, fuelled up but sans bombs etc comes in around 25 tons, if memory serves me right.
A display shell, minus engines, seats & 600 black boxes would still be 10 - 15 tons.
That piddly little crane, with the jib at full stretch would only do between 5 & 10 as a maximum.
The incident is from Dharan on the east coast. Word is, they who wanted it done were told it needed a
bigger crane, but wouldn't pay for an outside contractor & said their crane would do.
We lifted a Tonka in Germany donkeys years ago. What turned up looked like something out of Thunderbirds.
I've never seen so many wheels attatched to one chassis and a jib the diameter of a shipping container.
We asked the driver if he knew how much his load was worth (then around £23 million)
He countered by asking if we knew how much his crane was worth!
To sum up, If you ask for an expert opinion, listen to the answer!"
"I wondered when these pics would turn up on here. We saw them weeks ago.
Your basic Tonka, fuelled up but sans bombs etc comes in around 25 tons, if memory serves me right.
A display shell, minus engines, seats & 600 black boxes would still be 10 - 15 tons.
That piddly little crane, with the jib at full stretch would only do between 5 & 10 as a maximum.
The incident is from Dharan on the east coast. Word is, they who wanted it done were told it needed a
bigger crane, but wouldn't pay for an outside contractor & said their crane would do.
We lifted a Tonka in Germany donkeys years ago. What turned up looked like something out of Thunderbirds.
I've never seen so many wheels attatched to one chassis and a jib the diameter of a shipping container.
We asked the driver if he knew how much his load was worth (then around £23 million)
He countered by asking if we knew how much his crane was worth!
To sum up, If you ask for an expert opinion, listen to the answer!"
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So, in the end, either the strain guage was pinging away like a mad thing but
so the operator carried on,
or,
the audible alarm was disconnected because it kept going off and distracting the operator at a critical moment.
they who wanted it done were told it needed a bigger crane, but wouldn't pay for an outside contractor & said their crane would do
or,
the audible alarm was disconnected because it kept going off and distracting the operator at a critical moment.
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"the audible alarm was disconnected because it kept going off and distracting the operator at a critical moment"
When I was at uni one of the lecturers was a frequent expert witness at crane accidents.
He said you could always tell the crane drivers on a site because they were the only ones on site wearing caps.
Apparently this was so they could jam them into the warning bells when they went off.
When I was at uni one of the lecturers was a frequent expert witness at crane accidents.
He said you could always tell the crane drivers on a site because they were the only ones on site wearing caps.
Apparently this was so they could jam them into the warning bells when they went off.
