How not to retrieve a car from you harbour
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tdr1nka
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Is there another pic of a bigger crane pulling them both out?
My first thought was what happened to the person operating the crane on the Merc?
My first thought was what happened to the person operating the crane on the Merc?
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
tdr1nka said:
I hope, he merely got wet and felt a bit daft.
Methinks someone hadn't taken account of the extra weight of water in the car, not to mention the principle of long levers...
tdr1nka
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Those trucks are very heavy but the chassis is very flexible, you can see the near side front tyre of the truck starting to lift as the chassis appears to be reaching the maximum twist.
I've watched the emergency services repeatedly trying to lift a cement mixer that had crashed on its side and hampered by the same flexing.
I've watched the emergency services repeatedly trying to lift a cement mixer that had crashed on its side and hampered by the same flexing.
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Imagine a little Scottish village harbour. A car has gone off the edge into the water, a drop of 15-20 feet. A flat bed truck with a crane has been called and in the first pic the crane jib is horizontal, and the car lifted just clear of the water.
In the second picture, the weight of the car, the water and the effect of a long lever (the crane jib) mean that the truck has tipped over the edge of the harbour and is just about to hit the water itself...
I like the little dog looking on in the second pic!
In the second picture, the weight of the car, the water and the effect of a long lever (the crane jib) mean that the truck has tipped over the edge of the harbour and is just about to hit the water itself...
I like the little dog looking on in the second pic!
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
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It's a Jack Russel, always first on the scene of any kind of mischief!
Keith Oates
Janner
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- Penarth, Wales
That wasn't the end of the story. I've seen this before and they then got another and bigger mobile crane which also toppled into the harbour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And then the reinforcements arrived!
Arch
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noooooo!
I take it back about a Scottish village, and apologies for the lazy sterotype, but that has to be Ireland! Did they eventually leave them all in the water and open a cafe on the resulting new island?
Cheers maz, btw, glad to be of service.
Canrider, I think the chap in red is ducking away sideways isn't he? Sort of one arm up to protect his face?
I take it back about a Scottish village, and apologies for the lazy sterotype, but that has to be Ireland! Did they eventually leave them all in the water and open a cafe on the resulting new island?
Cheers maz, btw, glad to be of service.
Canrider, I think the chap in red is ducking away sideways isn't he? Sort of one arm up to protect his face?
red_tom
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The first set is accurate but the last photo of the second set is a fake
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp
red_tom
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Oh, and it was Ireland.
End of Season:
We have certainly have had our ups and downs in the village this year what with somebody falling off the village wall, thank god not killed, and then in the wee hours of Saturday morning, a car goes into the Harbour, with a young man at the wheel, the car landed upside down and if it was not for the vigilance Mary King who alerted Sean de Courcey, Sean fair play to him pulled this man out of the car, which was nearly totally submerged in the tide and pulled him to safety, what ever way you look at it, Sean saved his life, yet again another near fatal accident, and then I suppose on the slightly humorous side and to add insult to injury, a tow truck was called out to pull the car out, now get this, the truck fell in while trying to lift the car, no donít worry there was no one in it, it was remote controlled, but the machine was not heavier enough to lift the car out, therefore, a proper professional machine had to be called in, and the job was done, no loss of life, what was interesting the amount of people that came to have a look at this task you would think we had another social event going on .
http://www.roundstone-connemara.com/newssept704.htm
End of Season:
We have certainly have had our ups and downs in the village this year what with somebody falling off the village wall, thank god not killed, and then in the wee hours of Saturday morning, a car goes into the Harbour, with a young man at the wheel, the car landed upside down and if it was not for the vigilance Mary King who alerted Sean de Courcey, Sean fair play to him pulled this man out of the car, which was nearly totally submerged in the tide and pulled him to safety, what ever way you look at it, Sean saved his life, yet again another near fatal accident, and then I suppose on the slightly humorous side and to add insult to injury, a tow truck was called out to pull the car out, now get this, the truck fell in while trying to lift the car, no donít worry there was no one in it, it was remote controlled, but the machine was not heavier enough to lift the car out, therefore, a proper professional machine had to be called in, and the job was done, no loss of life, what was interesting the amount of people that came to have a look at this task you would think we had another social event going on .
http://www.roundstone-connemara.com/newssept704.htm
