Some rigger out there got fired for sure.
OW! It looked like the frame bent from the impact.
It would seem that whoever designed the carrying system didn’t believe too much in having a tolerance for error. I only saw two slings. That is putting all your eggs in one two baskets.
Thanks for sharing - I think.[:'(][+o(][:S][*-)][xx(][oops][tdn][D)]
Couldn’t think of any better way to describe it then by using the Smilies.
Dave
oooochhh…that is gonna hurt…[xx(]
That’ll buff out! Oh wait, maybe it’s covered under warranty! (No, not really). This is why you opt for the shipper’s insurance.
Brad
that’s it they all go into the jewel case and will not be removed until they reach their destination!
Well, well,
The “hand of God” method doesn’t always work!! LOL
Yup, movers insurance, shiipping insurance, etc SOME kind of insurance is necessary!
Looks to me like the “strapping” or part of its connections broke…then the other let loose with stress on it…but It SURE DIDN’T look PRETTY!
Shamful waste of a loco…[sigh]
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That had to be loud. I’m sure there were a few cahnges of clothes involved too.
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Wow! That’s why you are warned away from hanging loads!
In the shops, the locos are held up by huge metal L shaped arms, and whatever cables are used are typically “overkill” to be extra safe.
I’ve worked in a lot of refineries and have been present during a lot of lifts, and the riggers are the unsung stars of the show. My thought is that a cable snapped, which may well have been part of the crane proper - rather than the rigging attached to it.
I may be wrong, but it appears that the loco was being off-loaded from a ship/barge onto a dock. I wonder if the crane was ship mounted or dock mounted. In either case, someone will likely be in big trouble.
Two slings is pretty normal - there are only 2 jacking points per side, that’s where they are attached.
Took a nice chunk out of the dock, too. Locos are HEAVY.
–Randy
If this happened at the LHS they’d just put a “sale” tag on it …
Dave Nelson
The Boone & Scenic Valley’s Chinese mikado was dropped in a similar fasion when it was being unloaded at Long Beach.
Jeff
Off to salvage for sure, got to be be some serious internal damage to most of the mechanicals. Surprised that the dock held up too.
You are right, look carefully at the right hand cable, you can see it fraying just before it snapped. The description on the “More Info” link describes the loco as “American made”, implying the location is at some foreign port.
When I worked at Newport News Shipbuilding in the early 70s, I saw them loading some locomotives on a ship headed to South America. The ship was in a drydock, and the locos arrived by railroad barge on the James River. The shipyard installed pads on the deck where the trucks would be located; the locomotives minus the trucks were lifted onto the pads, and the locos were secured as deck cargo. They used the then new 750 ton gantry crane for the lift, using only 2 of the 4 crane hooks.
Man, that locomotive is a MONSTER!
They should have doubled the sling over, which would have doubled the lifting capacity.
Two slings are the norm. How would you get any more to work witout one taking more strain than the rest? Things do fail on occasions. Nobody wants it to happen; but, that don’t keep it from doing so!
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Best line of this thread,
It’ll buff out !.. LMAO
Time for an asprin for someone…
Johnboy out…
I had seen that and linked it on Facebook…just the way it landed you can see that there is without a doubt frame damage…I would not be surprised if there are cracks in the wheels, engine block, radiators, fuel tank, cab, commode, windows,…heck…probably chipped the paint too.
The clip was shown on NBC Today Show this morning; they gave the location as a port in East Central Africa.
My guess is the sling was probably rated for the load when new, but wear & tear, broken strands, etc severly degraded the capacity. Or maybe it is a case of, the sling is a bit under rated, but it has a safety factor of 5, so it should be OK… [xx(] I have worked in third world countries, and sometimes they are a bit casual about preventave maintenance and rated loads.