Regards
Kevin
Regards
Kevin
Shame the guy ran out of film at the crucial moment :-)
Makes the railway equivalent look a little lame. So much for that outrigger. Didn't help in the least. Did it slip off the edtge I wonder? It was pretty close. The first thing that struck me. Talking of which, does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of the famous railway poster? The one where the loco is head down in the drink. Would love to hang it in workshop. Regards GeoffH Norfolk, UK - not VA
I don't think he had an outrigger down - that was the problem. What looks like an outrigger is the top of the harbour ladder, you can see it clearly after the wagon has gone over. It's a wonder no one was hurt.
Jon.
Outrigger was down, look at the pic as it's going for a dip. Outrigger is clearly out but not by much. The angle of the truck prior to it's swimming lesson should have given a clue.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
The last picture in the sequence shows the round foot of the outrigger quite clearly on the side away from the camera on the first three shots.
Took ages to load on our dial-up connection, but our ADSL hook-up was put into service lunchtime which then took seconds to get the whole set downloaded!
Peter
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I wonder....
I looked at the pictures when you first posted the link, quite amusing really.
I have just read JS's reply and it made me whether the whole thing was staged? There are no shadows visible so we have no idea of time scale but it seems rather convenient that two mobile cranes were available. The water line looks to be the same in all pictures (but it might have been at around high tide).
Any thoughts?
Ian Phillips, sceptic (but have been proved wrong many times)
I like the way it dumps it's entire tank of diesel the moment it tips over (forth pic down), safe!
Stephen
I suspect it ruptured the tank on the handrail at the dockside as it went over, it couldn't drive around with a hole that large normally.
Peter
-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk
Irish republic judging by the style of the registration on the larger recovery truck, also the names visible - Walsh's, Redmond, Long are I think common in Ireland. I'll have a guess at Galway, though I've never been .
Cheers Tim
There's a slight drop in water level if you look at the white life raft container on the top of the deck house on the red trawler in the background and compare it against the top of the quayside. Depends on the tide tise and fall in the area, but even with a comparatively small rise and fall, the whole episode couldn't have taken that long.
Jim.
John Stevenson wrote: >snip<
Ah yes - I didn't look for it there
Tim, The larger recovery recovering the recovery is indeed registered in Galway. Middle letter of number plate.
Martin P
There are more vehicles around the place with the second lorry. Also, look at the background, the hills in the distance. There is a fog in the later pictures (second truck).
As for the water line, the tide could have been coming in for the earlier pictures, and on its way out for the later ones. The small white boat at the side of the red one has also disappeared.
Regards, Dave.
Who do you reckon was working the hoist at the time of the incident?
What about the guy with the red shoulders on his overalls - well out of the way as the splash came?
Mike
Re. "pic of loco head down in the drink" I know the one you mean - it's usually got the caption "Oh Sh*t!" and I recollect was a line drawing. Not aware of where you could get that one but my favourite is the actual photo of the loco at Montparnasse in Paris. You can get that from
I'm with you just now - try working through the dynamics in your head between pics 3 and 4. The outrigger is down and didn't fail. The thing turned over as the load reduced! The lighting is different and one of the people in the foreground disappears between pic 3 and pic 4.
BTW these are not mobile cranes by the definition I grew up with.
Steve
I can't see that this would have been staged. That truck that went for a dip has a high resale value, especially in Ireland. What I think happened here can be gleaned off picture 3. In the position the car is in he's right on the limit. The skew of the cab is a good pointer. He's also at the strongest point of a lift, i.e. opposite the stabiliser [ which doesn't look to be far enough out or the cab would be like that ]
He now has two choices, rotate front or rotate back. As it's a car transporter chances are he'll rotate back to drop it on the bed.
To do this though means he exceeding the load radius. What he needs to do is lift and scope in at the same time to keep the car as low as possible but as close in as possible. With a Hiab it's always the radius that matters, I think what he has done here and not caught by the photographer is that he just rotated round at that radius to drop it onto the bed. As he's moved away from the line of the stabiliser he's exceed the load/radius level with the results in picture 4.
One thing to bear in mind with these types of machine is that there is no tests or checks before you are allowed to operate one. Just because you can pull a few levers doesn't mean to say you can use one correctly.
You get a good idea working around guys who use these daily, I've had some shockers but many are very good. One guy I know can write his name in the dirt with the hook.
I have tried that and I can do it if your name is Full Stop
Here's a good example of keeping close.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
I wondered if the size of the machine was actually over the top for the truck chassis? It looks rather heavy-duty for a basic Cargo 7.5 tonner...
Peter
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