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13.01.2016

Tree takes crane out

A truck crane overturned in Anderson Indiana yesterday while removing a tree from the front lawn of a building on the campus of Anderson University

The tree company, said to be Arbortech, was contracted to remove a large old oak tree, limb by limb, section by section. The company had brought in a 70 ton four axle Link Belt crane to lift the sections clear working from the road.
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The tree section was simply too heavy


The limbs had all been safely removed when the team set to work on the trunk, unfortunately they cut off too long a section – roughly three metres - of the substantial trunk - for the crane to manage at the radius and boom length it was working with, causing it to tip over the rear.

Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident and the operator, while shaken up was fine. However we are barely a week into the new year and already the first crane has succumbed to a tree.
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A view form the front


Comments

With a few steel plates to drive on the grass, the crane could have been set up closer to the tree to win some radius/capacity. A tree is always tricky, it's difficult to estimate the weight. If you don't know the weight, than try it first with smaller sections than you have an idea.

Jan 18, 2016

Tmayes
As the editor has rightly pointed out we are only just 2 weeks into 2016 and already the Americans have been out smarted by another tree, to be fair I'm proud of them because I never thought they would make the first weekend without a oak out witting them.

Jan 13, 2016