Fail. Sling crash.

[john meehan]

Just watched the vid on the wifi at work.sure went with a bang. I hope it didnt cause you to much trouble and nobody was hurt.

 

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[iana]

The sling looked very old.

Good job nobody was under it.

 

 

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[se7enthdevil]

chains and straps can break if they want, check this expensive one out.

 

 

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[Mortimer Firewood]

That's a spreader bar diffrent beast all together.

 

Used to distribute weight out evenly with a heavy lift.

Edited March 2, 2017 by Mortimer Firewood

[Wood wasp]

Hard to be sure but possibly the sling going under the train broke? Again hard to be sure but looks like way sling was hooked up that only single loop, not doubled up. Anyway, I'll bet the crane rocked a little bit losing that amount of weight so quickly!

[skyhuck]

Back to the original Visio, looked to me like the pick was just too big, why did you go from pretty concervative lifts to what looked to be a huge section of trunk?

[Mortimer Firewood]

Back to the original Visio, looked to me like the pick was just too big, why did you go from pretty concervative lifts to what looked to be a huge section of trunk?

 

I did think the same thing.

[treequip]

Back to the original Visio, looked to me like the pick was just too big, why did you go from pretty concervative lifts to what looked to be a huge section of trunk?

 

Well, it was getting late and.....................

[skyhuck]

Well, it was getting late and.....................

 

Indeed……

[Gardiners Tree Surgery]

Just watched the video again. Was the same sling used for taking the heavy timber down that was used for lowering the smaller branches??

There looked to be around 50% of the branches that were badly unbalanced and spun round causing a bit of a shock load to the sling. Could this be a factor??

Fan of chains personally on cranes