Possibly a repost and true it’s a crane, put a lot of faith in the chains that’s for sure
Why not use the crane to drag the crane up?
What was pulling it up ? Anybody know how it got back down
waynedl:
Why not use the crane to drag the crane up?
Probably because the strength of the lifting crane is up/down rather than forwards/backwards. He couldn’t lift the boom as it would make it unstable whilst driving and also I’m not sure he could without lowering the legs, which would defeat the purpose
kemaro:
What was pulling it up ? Anybody know how it got back down
Carefully, very carefully. Then again, on the way down the boom out the front could stick out over the road on that bend, couldn’t it.
I don’t know the model number but approximately, the weight is between 60 and 80 ton, with a 60m boom and could probably lift it’s own weight at 3-6 meters away from the base.
However, they do hire for quite a lot of money and so just hiring another to get it up the hill is a chicken and egg scenario. It’s probably just easier to help it up the hill to get it on site…
Another reason he didnt use the crane is because more than likely it has cut outs on it which wont allow it to function unless its level. We have the same problem with some of the machines we move especialy if your loading them on step frames when you start climbing the ramps if the center of grafity gets to high they automaticly cut out it some times takes a bit of buggering about ( dropping the boom ect ) to get them on. A health and safety device which although good in intention can some time be a pain.
Fair play to him but I’d be buggered if I’d do it.
Is that an all terrain crane.
That had the potential to ruin someone’s day!
Bloody ludicrous. No high viz and no safety helmets. Total disregard for the children. Totally unprofessional. 
I found the clip on a couple of sites, apparently it was a tracked excavator on the other end of the chains, comment was submitted by the person who filmed it. Once through the narrow bit near the end of the film there is a flat spot where they towed it from, still looks ■■■■ iffy though, yards of chain strung out and not the thickest looking stuff. I’d want to see something they would fit to a bloody great anchor. If it had bust they were standing in a good spot to get a link or two round the lugholes.
You’d need pretty big balls to be sat in that crane whilst it was being towed, if the chain had snapped he’d of been backwards over the lip.
kemaro:
Anybody know how it got back down
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8wheels:
Fair play to him but I’d be buggered if I’d do it.Is that an all terrain crane.
I wondered if the drive had all but given up when the transmission got too hot up the hardest part.
He seemed to get to the easy bit and stop, then it wasn’t man enough to drive any further.
Again those chains and ropes looked a bit flimsy, especially at the angle they were pulling from.
When the machine reached the top I said to my mate. I wouldn’t be stood behind the bugger like three of them did 
It looked like when it stopped it had broke traction by the cloud of blue (tyre?) smoke that came up from the far side at the rear.
It’s got to be double drive surely and must have had diff locks and interaxle locks. Or maybe your right and the engine/transmission wasn’t up to the job of screwing this thing round a hairpin bend uphill.
As for the chain…my dogs got a thicker one round its neck
I wondered if the drive had all but given up when the transmission got too hot up the hardest part.
Quite possible.
On an unrelated note, our yard is in Danbury which in Essex is a bit of a mountain but otherwise known as a reasonable sized hill. For some reason the local (first) service buses have a habit of dying when they get to the top or very near. The other week I saw 3 different buses that had died, and I reckon that I spot one a month. Bearing in mind that I often leave the yard and stay out all day, there are surely plenty that I don’t see. The only thing I can think of is the transmission overheating.
some serious skill there!
Saaamon:
some serious skill there!
And big balls too when it was waggling a wheel or two in the air
Nate:
kemaro:
Anybody know how it got back downweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!