ashton gate:
Anybody tell me, why are they always left hand drive?
My theory on that is due to the amount built ,that it is to much hassle and expense to do a right hand drive version…I may be wrong ,but it’s the only reason I can think off
It’s due to resale value more than anything else because unlike trucks and cars cranes have a global market and most get imported and exported to several different countries during their lifetime, since most of the world drives on the right it makes sense to make them all left hand drive. Even the japs make their cranes left hand drive.
kitbuilder123:
I think the daily mail have it a bit wrong. I don’t think it weighs 825 ton while travelling at 50mph
It will weigh in excess of 100 tonne without any ballast possibly 300-350 with ballast (removed for road use) and will be one of the heaviest things you can drive on a class 2…
teatime:
Here in peterhead , dailymail.co.uk/news/article … rbour.htmlwas worth about £3 million, fell over in may this year and still in situ . They are working out how to remove it, its a toss up between the German manufacturer coming over or the nomadic metal recyclers in there transits
H n s are holding up that job, was told they had refused the rescue plan
teatime:
Here in peterhead , dailymail.co.uk/news/article … rbour.htmlwas worth about £3 million, fell over in may this year and still in situ . They are working out how to remove it, its a toss up between the German manufacturer coming over or the nomadic metal recyclers in there transits
H n s are holding up that job, was told they had refused the rescue plan
turns out they have now got the go ahead too finally remove the crane next month
alamcculloch:
Not long ago they were classed as plant and the driver only needed a car licence,now they need a DCPC as well as a class 2
Very true,i am sure they run on the cherry as well don,t know if this is still the case tho !
Was going to mention both these points but you guys beat me to it.
Found this:
8.12 Mobile cranes
A vehicle in this category must be designed and constructed as a mobile crane which:
(a) is used on public roads only as a crane in connection with work carried out at a site in the immediate vicinity of where it is being used or for the purpose of proceeding to and from the place where it is to be used,
(b) when so proceeding does not carry any load except such as is necessary for its propulsion or the operation of built-in lifting apparatus, and
(c) has a revenue weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms.
The category does not include load carrying vehicles such as vans with access platforms.
Where a mobile crane is dependent on another vehicle only for transport to and from the place where it will be used, whether carried or trailer-mounted, the crane itself may use red diesel, but the carrier or towing vehicle has no red diesel entitlement.
teatime:
Here in peterhead , dailymail.co.uk/news/article … rbour.htmlwas worth about £3 million, fell over in may this year and still in situ . They are working out how to remove it, its a toss up between the German manufacturer coming over or the nomadic metal recyclers in there transits
Anyone know what happened exactly with the Whyte’s crane as I can’t fathom what the hell has gone on there. They jib is nowhere near extend full reach yet has bent and pulled the whole weight of the crane back there must be more to it that an outrigger sinking.
Looking at it now I think it is the outrigger sinking when the ballast at the back was over it and it then toppled backwards and maybe the boom just bent backwards on impact as maybe it is engineered with much less strength in that direction. It does seem scary it has just bent like that.
