Ooops & oooppsidedown crane

m chappelow · 03 February 2013, 16:54

Just been to have a look at last Fridays crane accident that happened at the next village where I live an long the Leeds Liverpool canal at Apperley bridge in west Yorkshire .
60 ton Crane had just come up a makeshift road out of a field & was just on the towpath with the intentions of replacing some lock gates about 30 yards further along when the bank gave way under the load ( errrr 300 year tow path built for horse drawn barge pulling )

Causing it to roll over into the canal thankfully driver escaped un injured except for his pride & a wet backside .
Windscreen wipers were still running until yesterday morning when the counter pollution team arrived.

spartacus · 03 February 2013, 17:33

Wow. Driver was very lucky to escape from that.

Now the big question... how to get the crane out?

Bigmuz7 · 03 February 2013, 17:41

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Originally Posted by spartacus

Wow. Driver was very lucky to escape from that.

Now the big question... how to get the crane out?

Not half .. of anything to roll over like that .. you wouldnt want it to be one of them

And the answer for recovery is ........ a bigger one

m chappelow · 03 February 2013, 18:19

In the planning outset they must have foreseen what could happen as they had placed bags of stone rubble along the banks in the water to help shore up the sides .
I think it will take some moving as its up an embankment anyhow and access is poor & they can't get any barges up from the leeds end to help as he lock gates are in bits .
warning sign was appropriate though about the crane causing an obstruction .
Ironically where the lock is was originally one of the canals main workshops for building lock gates and bridges ,,,funny how ,they never had any bother like this in the past ,,though in those days it was pork dripping teacakes ,derricks and blocks and tackle . Lol. I'll keep you posted at the out come and subsequent salvage .

whisper · 03 February 2013, 19:00

Mrs Nos could lift that out, no worries

Trailer Guy · 03 February 2013, 20:55

Looks like he's not the only one...

100 ton crane falls over as bank collapses - YouTube

pow2gran · 03 February 2013, 21:08

They could always do what the irish did and get another crane to pull it out!

Aharbour_somewhereinIreland.avi - YouTube

Poly · 03 February 2013, 21:19

Ah the irish story isn't quite as bad as it seems... snopes.com: Crane Accident

Nos4r2 · 03 February 2013, 21:26

I suspect that's not coming out of there in one piece.

Bigmuz7 · 03 February 2013, 21:42

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Originally Posted by whisper

Mrs Nos could lift that out, no worries

Lol .. is she a heavy lifter

..... moving on ....

beamishken · 03 February 2013, 22:25

gas axe required

m chappelow · 03 February 2013, 22:39

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Originally Posted by beamishken

gas axe required

its a wonder the batteries lasted all night ,with the price of scrap metal & amount of pikeys in the area thought the fuel pump would have gone by now at least. lol

m chappelow · 04 February 2013, 08:23

Crane itself weighs 64 tons with a lift capable of 90 tons .
Brainstorming Ideas are being discussed this morning one idea is
Leaving it in situ & divert the canal into the adjoining field ,
big fear is that as the canal is up a 10 metre high embankment at that section any winching could bring the whole embankment canal and all into the lower field .
Another idea is to drain the section dig out the towpath & embankment and roll it into the lower field .

diver 1 · 04 February 2013, 08:31

Commercial dive team would have it out in very little time, broco it up into manageable pieces and lift each section out with something significantly smaller.

Here's a 250T crane in a similar mess..