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Re: All Terrain Crane
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:20:27 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:

Modern cranes are very safe, but I would never stand closer than the
boom radius unless I was on the crew.

Indeed. Here in Melbourne recently, a tower section was being added when the
counterweight detached & fell, killing one worker.

http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/98/0c00be98.asp

ROSCO



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  RE: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) Ha! There IS something you don't know about cranes! Basically, they have pressure transducers on the hydraulics that control boom luffing. Then there's a really complicated bit of software that's customised for each and every crane geomoetry (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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