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I'm not the leading expert on cranes, But I don't think a D7R makes for a good counterweight.   If anyone has anymore info feel free to chime in.
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But if it had a ripper on the back... I just had to!
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ummmmm......
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Shouldve put the derreck on.
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Perhaps this is a new way of lifting and lowering the load.
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Seen that somewhere before. Reminds me of holding down an 18 ton Grove with a 988F so we pick and reset a load-out bunker on a crusher that was sinking into the thawing ground...good times!
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I'd be careful saying its a 'Sarens crane' - it's obviously been a Sarens crane at some point but I'd hazard a guess that it's very much 'ex-Sarens' and is being operated (I use the term loosely!) by someone else.
I doubt Sarens would wish to be associated with this sort of thing!
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Yes, the white stripe brushed down the side kind of lets Sarens off the hook with this incident, although the colour says it certainly used to be theirs. Someone has a lot of questions coming their way.....?
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it is a barnhart wind job in the USA. not a sarens crane anymore. too much boom not enough ass.
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Barnhart made a stupid move like this???
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Must be one of the rentals from their parent...Maxim Crane Works... 
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Jazzdrummer27 wrote:I'd be careful saying its a 'Sarens crane' - it's obviously been a Sarens crane at some point but I'd hazard a guess that it's very much 'ex-Sarens' and is being operated (I use the term loosely!) by someone else.
I doubt Sarens would wish to be associated with this sort of thing!
I figured Sarens wouldn't do anything that dumb, I was just going by the paint and the sarens logo on the track frames. It looked like to me that someone just put some paper over the logo and name on the upper structure to save their behinds. If you look closely you can still make out Sarens on the side. Now the title is fixed.
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"I need a 60,000# machine, doesn't matter what"
"Umm, OKayyy... how about a D7R?"
"Sure that will do. make sure it has a drawbar on the back"
though not the smartest idea, the dozer probably did keep the crane from going over completely!
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They are lucky the ballast stone are still in place or we could have had a death like the LR1600.
I think someone needs a foot up the a$$ for this sort of work, they may have been booming up and thought if they could get the luffer off the ground by using the the dozer as an anchor.
Once the boom was up by working with high angle lifts they wouldn't need a derrick.
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A funny pic but, as pointed out, could have had fatal consequences... 
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ulf wrote:A funny pic but, as pointed out, could have had fatal consequences... Yeah I mean it seems like the idea kinda worked. The crane didn't break... the load on the other hand
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Looks like the door of the dozer is open--yee-hah.I sure wouldn't want to be that operator-probably spilt his coffee among other 'things'.'Don't worry Butch it'll work'.Safety first. Now smartee pants how do we get 'it' down? Reality how would you get it down without injuring anyone? sure seems like a lot of possible problems going down.
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I get a kick out of these posts, not because of what happened, but because people think because its "Sarens" or "Mammoet" or "Barnhart" that they're too good for something like this to happen, that they don't hire people capable of making this kind of mistake. People that do this kind of stuff exisit in all organizations, and they have all had these kind of problems. I saw the result of the mighty" Mammoet" go over up here in Alberta. Has anyone seen the result of why the Deep South crane went over in Texas? Operator error..... it happens to them all folks. You cheat, you get caught, and some are luckier than others, like this guy. There are procedures for this kind of activity for a reason.
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SDBOB wrote:Looks like the door of the dozer is open--yee-hah.I sure wouldn't want to be that operator-probably spilt his coffee among other 'things'.'Don't worry Butch it'll work'.Safety first. Now smartee pants how do we get 'it' down? Reality how would you get it down without injuring anyone? sure seems like a lot of possible problems going down. Im just spitballing. Id would build cribbing under the tracks and then somehow lower the load. Once the load was on the ground then lower the boom. Id also put strapping/chains around the CW stack to keep in in place during the entire operation. The use of another crane would be very helpful.
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