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Re: All Terrain Crane
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:39:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:
> ...Once the crane gets to the tipping point, the results are pretty
> spectacular. Even if the operator lets the load go, or manages to luff up
> in hopes of reducing the radius, the resulting forces tend to make the
> crane fail spectacularly.

Here are a few good ones:
http://www.craneaccidents.com/picker3.htm

TJ



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  Re: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) ROSCO (24 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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