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Someone was not thinking, or is inexperienced, most of these accidents are just foolish, sheesh, it's not that big of a deal to put that weight on. Apparently no buzzer or auto shut down, I had an engineer size a crane wrong once, working radius was too short, the pick was only about 2 ton, once we got to the limit the 65 ton Grove RT series shut off and the load was hanging. I brought in a 175 ton ( about the size of the one in the photo) the next morning and got er done, operator on that Grove, somehow wriggled that boom back and got us working again, just had to leave that pick for the larger crane. I did a lot of work with rough terrain cranes up to 500 ton, and there are a lot of things to know and consider, or what is shown will happen, every time, hate seeing something like that happening when it could have easily been prevented.
Here is information for the Newspaper article...
SYLVAN BEACH — .A Sylvan Beach home and several boats were damaged Saturday when a crane collapsed on Vienna Road, state police said.
A 130-ton crane owned and operated by Walter Platt of Williamstown was taking down trees behind a residence at 1116 Vienna Road at about 8:23 a.m. when the accident occurred. A large tree limb caused the crane to tip forward and the fully extended boom to crash to the ground, police said.
A rear deck on the residence and three boats docked along the Mariner’s Landing canal were damaged by the crane and debris. The state Department of Environmental Conservation later was called to assist with leaking diesel fluid and hydraulic fluid from the crane and the boats, police said.
The accident temporarily closed Vienna Road between Route 13 and Kenwood Avenue, and is still under investigation, police said.
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