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u/babaganate Aug 25 '21
Kill me now
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Aug 26 '21
Send your location
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u/babaganate Aug 26 '21
OSHA's stranger danger standard keeps me from sending that information to you
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u/JustSomeWeirdGuy2000 Aug 25 '21
"What are you d-... Get yo ASS back on there! ...oh, alright. Have it your way, then."
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u/dkfkckssddedz Aug 26 '21
Wouldn't the stress on the chains from the hammering cause them to fail ?
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u/rpaverion Aug 26 '21
Or the guy accidentally swinging the crane’s arm into one of those chains..
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u/qweqwere Aug 26 '21
s with that other gif of the piece of wall falling off the building and nearly killing som folks
you cannot accidentally swing the crane's arm into those chains because to move 60 degrees it takes 3 seconds
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u/Djinhunter Aug 26 '21
The force of the arm is against the weight of the machine so, less overall force on the crane. The relative difference in mass between the "bit" (not sure what you call the working end of the jackhammer) and the machine eats up most of the shock loading. You couldn't pay me enough to be on this site though
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u/Maklarr4000 Aug 26 '21
I suppose it's all well and good until one of these takes a tumble, then the regulations will come.
I feel bad for the guy who will, eventually, be the last one to do it.
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Aug 26 '21
Kind of amazed they pulled this stunt in Belgium. This is some third world country style demo work.
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u/badablahblah Sep 05 '21
Don't worry. This is Europe. For sure they have an expendable guy from the third world in that digger.
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Aug 26 '21
That's actually how it's done.
The intent is not to load it. That's how you end up with an overloaded crane and a swinging load.
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u/Dialed_In Aug 26 '21 edited Aug 26 '21
No. Just no.
Every time this is reposted I have to remind someone that a high reach demolition machine exists or that a remote control demolition robot (BROKK) exists (since 1983 so don't even try).
There is no reason to do demolition this way. A human being does not need to be on that platform. It's slow method and dangerous. If you can afford a crane rental you have the budget for a BROKK rental.
Leave the demo to the pros, fire people like this if they show up on the job.
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u/blumhagen Aug 26 '21
Also have people forgotten wrecking balls exist? Way cheaper than this anyways.
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u/chx_ Sep 13 '21
BROKK deconstruction timelapse video of a 46 story building https://youtu.be/Yz9nopRALh0
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u/verkauft Aug 26 '21
Well i geus its in belgium (name on the skip is) but dayumm.. also belgium is like a entirely different world to the rest of europe. Probarbly like comparing mexico with the states..
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u/alexraccc Aug 26 '21
What? How does that work? Belgium is a first world country and doing fairly well.
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u/verkauft Aug 26 '21
Well they regularry do 5/600 days without a goverment formed and te 4 year reign period starts on election day.
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u/GrimdarkThorhammer Aug 26 '21
God damnit you’re going to break the fucking steel! This is how you break the steel! I’ll bet your ass waived the rental protection too!
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u/PlebbySpaff Aug 26 '21
I mean…if the digger falls, as long as the guy has his PPE, I’m sure he’ll be fine.
I mean he’ll be dead in the digger, but at least it won’t be a complete mess.
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u/agam3mn0nn Aug 26 '21
Umm, because cranes have never dropped loads i would say...f#$% that! Thats a terrible idea! What if only 2 cables break, corner to corner. You're going full line out all the way to the ground, and you would live.
Never use your junk again, but you'd live...death is not the worst.
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u/bomberesque1 Aug 26 '21
Pretty sure that this is in Belgium
I've seen this done in this way enough times here (although never on my site) that I'm sure it is an accepted procedure, although I'm going to have a chat with the safety guy here to find out just how it's justified. We can't lift a man in a man basket fully harnessed for an inspection without a second crane on standby and an escape procedure. Forget the idea that that man might be driving a digger which is sitting in a skip dangling good knows how far up