Safety Rope for MEWP

[skyhuck]

just best not use a mewp simples

 

Works for me

[Mortimer Firewood]

And here is a video of me practising my rope work!

 

 

 

He's in a jim going up your talking about an emergency situation going down with a picker falling at the same time.

 

Why don't you just borrow a big air bag to jump into:lol:

[Gary Prentice]

 

Why don't you just borrow a big air bag to jump into:lol:

 

But what happens if a sinkhole appears, the airbag falls in it, then the mewp falls in it:biggrin:

 

 

 

 

 

Then a bus crashes through the cordon and lands on the mewp?

[Gnome]

You've got pilots with emotional problems to factor in as well these days.

[Johny Walker]

But what happens if a sinkhole appears, the airbag falls in it, then the mewp falls in it:biggrin:

 

 

 

 

 

Then a bus crashes through the cordon and lands on the mewp?

 

your screwed simples

[Gary Prentice]

You've got pilots with emotional problems to factor in as well these days.

 

I'm going to bed and pulling the covers over my head:sneaky2:

[Mortimer Firewood]

But what happens if a sinkhole appears, the airbag falls in it, then the mewp falls in it:biggrin:

 

 

 

 

 

Then a bus crashes through the cordon and lands on the mewp?

 

A litigation solicitors wet dream

[Billhook]

As the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy states in bold letters on the cover.

 

"Expect the Unexpected"

[treequip]

As the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy states in bold letters on the cover.

 

"Expect the Unexpected"

 

Not even close

 

[Mortimer Firewood]

Billhook I've been thinking about my time in pickers I've spent over a decade in them 6 days a week for 12 hours a day. Two incidents that really stick in my head are been on a job on my own on a sat putting rails in the gabble end of a building, the mewp I can't remember the make but a big machine got up around 80 ft and it cut out. Not a sole in site and a crap signal. I was to far from the building to climb and the mast was covered in grease. I sat there wondering for about an hour when these 3 lads came past drunk as lords. They eventually worked out how to lower me and I took um back to the boozer.

The other time I was on a column and beam job I'd just squashed my finger between steel and a sledge but could not stop as it was the last day with a crane got the last been in at around 545 going off dark started to descend in the picker suddenly all the weight came off my machine I'd crossed the jib of my mates machine wedging him against a steel column. I got my basket next to his lashed them with a lanyard and lifted him back up the basket popped off the face of the column and sent us up in the air with such force it near threw me out of the basket. He was thrown against the controls column and hurt his ribs.

 

99.9 % of the time it's the operator that's at fault the other 0.1% can't be planned for your in the hands of the unknown.

 

If you hire a machine in make sure it wasn't a steel erector that used it before because that's the industry where there abused causing week and warn parts.

If I ever had a machine off another job I tested it to it limits very close to the ground.:lol:

 

What ever you decide put a vid up of you practising your descent from the basket