jules Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Croydon crane This is my worst Nightmear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Neale Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Croydon craneThis is my worst knightmear You're right Jules - Nightmare mate. Just glad there were no fatalities. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br00n1e Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 :blink: scarey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Blimey, lucky no one was killed ! Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Projectblue Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Croydon craneThis is my worst Nightmear eek Why is it your worst nightmare J? Do you drive these things? I had no idea they were that unstable, I'm going to petition Ken Livingstone to ban all construction cranes from the city of London to prevent another disaster happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jos Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 It looks like they were 'building' the crane at the time (adding or removing new segments in the tower to change the height) which is presumably why it was so unstable... Glad no one was seriously hurt though - the people working in the block next door must have had quite a shock too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nas90 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I have never seen a tower crane being assembled but I guess they jack the top section and then insert a short section. presumably the girder section that fell down afterwards was the piece thay were inserting to raise the height of the boom (or is it called another name in crane circles). So how do they support the cab the counterbalance and the boom lift it 10 / 20 / 30? feet and insert the new section? Hydraulic rams? another crane? Presumably from the accident this is a very tricky operation and can go wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 I'm a site manager for jobs exactly like the one in the pic's and I am a CPCS crane Appointed Person and I had a tower crane on my site untill a few monthes ago. Thie crane in the pics was a self erector and somthing went wrong while riging as you can see. Luck it was on a Saterday otherwise the office building that the counterweights went through would have been full of office staff. My tower crane had a overall 100m jib and 25t counterweights on its jib and over 70t at its base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Saw this in NCE recently. Most scary part is that I was staying in that hotel a month ago and my room was right about where the cab landed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reads90 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I see there is another colapse in london. Top of a building fell on top of a bloke. Least that is what i saw on Channel 7 this morning in Aus H&S in London must be busy people at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s2hotdog Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Same as happened in canary wharf a few years ago - there will be changes in tower crane erection implemented Great link by the way unusal to see anything like that - the erectors and driver were very very lucky Cheers Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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