photo courtesy Atlanta Fire & Rescue
photo courtesy Atlanta Fire & Rescue
*UPDATE* A crane engineer is enroute to the location to access the situation. Two mobile cranes are also enroute to assist with bringing down the crane as well. W. Peachtree Street between 10th and 14th St. will be closed for the next 24-48 hours. #AFRD pic.twitter.com/FSFUS0A4ww
— Atlanta Fire Rescue (@ATLFireRescue) February 19, 2021
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BSTK
If you don't know what you're talking about it is better not to comment.
One needs to know the instructions of the manufacturer given by manual and training.
climbing down a crane is not an easy job, and a hard job. Crane erectors are special
people and very reponsable. Unfortunately something went wrong here, I am happy to see the crane still stands and nobody is injured. But keep you comments till after the investigation results. We all (the industry) can only learn from misshaps to prevent other accidents.
orrabeel
No requirement to remove ballast up or down. Another case of jumping the gun in the good old USA.
Michael Brown
Atlanta fire department have released this statement (copy and paste)
Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said a mechanical failure with one of the crane’s hydraulic cylinders caused the crane to lean.
Graeme Davison
If it had too much back ballast then ghat would have suggested that one piece of ballast should have been lifted off before the climbing down process. If a crane could have lifted the ballast off then it could have disassembled the whole crane, removing the need for the climbing operation.... so that sounds a tad implausible to me... am no expert but it doesn't sound right....
Michael Brown
There is too much back ballast still on the crane for that configuration, its surprising it hadn't missed the rearward guides due to deflection on the first few sections.