A Crane, A Pool, and A House — What Could Go Wrong? This…
- Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:54pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s common for small cranes to deliver and install pools. But you have to know that if we’re writing a story about it, something went horribly wrong.
On Friday, during a routing install, the crane delivering a pool in Minnesota over extended, tipping over and crashing into the house below:
WCCO-TV has more:
The pool’s weight was too much for the crane and it caused the crane to collapse onto the garage. In the fall, the crane took out the chimney and the pool hit a new fence.
“At that point, what can you do?” Krause said. “Your Friday went backwards.”
By Saturday evening, the pool was in its proper place, and the crane had been removed. However, the accident is one home improvement mishap that those involved will likely remember.
The homeowners said an electrical short in the crane may have caused it to extend farther than it should while carrying that kind of weight.
They had a good attitude about the damage and said they were new to the area and this allowed them to meet their neighbors.
The station’s full report is worth watching, as it has audio of the incident, which might be just as good as the video:
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Comments (68)
Marylou7
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:31pmOooops!!
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:23pmThis is a perfect example of why you never want a Democrat operating a crane.
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »Captbill
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:22pmThat’s a modern crane–at least it appears so, so the computer at the operators controls must have been fouled up. It reads boom angles, gives weights and would have sounded an alarm if he boomed down too far–it does sound like a technical, shall I say, “glitch” occurred. JMHO
Report Post »lea49
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:21pmA crane that new has a computerized “load moment indicator” that gives the operator the angle, radius, weight of load as well as the maximum capacity….The only way something like this happens is a. ground pressure shift. b. a gust of wind side loads the boom or c. the operator “turned the key” and overrode the LMI. Usually it is c. There is a very remote chance it could be electircal but the problem probably didn’t just show up, It has probably been having mishaps and they didn’t want to take time to fix it.
Report Post »jilsoft
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:09pmScore another for ‘no child left behind’ .. probably got pushed thru general physics in high school!
Report Post »Flag Raiser
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:50pmCan’t anyone read the lifting chart, angle and weight?????
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:39pmOuch……..
Report Post »noleftturn
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:34pmgood analogy to our economy…. to much debt, the U.S. tips over and we get to meet our new neighbors in the third world.
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:32pmMaybe they should have filled the tub AFTER it was installed ;)
Report Post »poppajoe
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:25pmhave to use a crane made for the job !!
Report Post »poppajoe
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:24pmwhere were the out -riggers….should NEVER tip if operator was properly trained !!!
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:43pmThe picture of the crane at 45 degrees clearly shows the outriggers. It is just a math problem, and now it is an insurance problem.
Report Post »The Bagginator
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:23pmI HATE it when that happens.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:22pm“They had a good attitude about the damage and said they were new to the area and this allowed them to meet their neighbors.”
Uh, welcome to the neighborhood? :-(
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:19pmI believe the weight imbalance was caused by the finger of Jesus on the end of that crane.
Say your prayers you hot tub sinners, soon your hot tub will be a boiling cauldron and your family will be Satan’s dinner.
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:23pmWhuh, what?
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:24pmThat’s funny. Seriously, though, I have never understood hot-tubbing as a social event. You are basically sitting there in “people soup.” Yuck.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:27pmI am certainly glad that your online name is Mossbrain……….what a truism!!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:29pmHow did this morph into religion?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:35pmour resident troll is just having a bad week …………that with congress finally going after obama and his hp troll check bouncing
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:32pmFirst you shower off before you get in the hot tub, and there is enough chlorine or bromine in that tub to kill live TB virii.
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:05pmI was thinkin SFB!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:16pmoh my, i think the crane operator needs to learn how to read. ” caution, please read before operating “”‘crane is only able to lift so much weight stupid.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:41pmIt must have been Obama’s budget director running the crane.
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:11pmhow long before the obummer administration and welfare parasites say this family doesn’t deserve a pool and they make to much money
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:11pmI hate it when that happens!!!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:11pmYea, well,,,,not that they are related, but this would be how our own government seems to now be working. Both would be truely impressive….right.
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:18pm> > > T I L T < < <
The lowest bidder doesn't always guarantee you will get the best job!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:11pmYea, well,,,,not that they are related, but this would be how our own government seems to now be working. Both would be truely impressive….right.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:10pmIn the Video it states “Hope the crane operator doesn’t loose his job over it, It’s an accident” ????
Report Post »BS, it’s called, doing the math ahead of time to prevent it from ever happening.
TimCotter
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:34pmRoger that!
Report Post »imjerry2
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:38pmIf it was in my town there would have been a license board meeting and the ops license would be suspended till the complete hearing to show the cause of the mishap !!!!
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:08pmSlight weight miscalculation.
Report Post »Would you like a new garage with that?
Milkman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:06pmWhat goes up must come down………
Report Post »NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:06pmOops!!! My bad!!! LOL
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:02pmThis could have been one of obama’s shovel ready jobs…
Report Post »TheLoneConservative
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:06pmLOL! Good one!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:25pmNope!……It’s private sector!……………..
Report Post »TheDebtWeAllPay
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:01pmwhoops
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:17pmThey‘re supposed to put the water in AFTER it’s in the ground!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:18pmUnion crane operator???
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:27pmBasic law of physics, where is the weight on the truck? The crane guy must be one of those people who doesn’t know who the vice president is.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:49pmA similar incident happened in my town, but it was a tree they were trying to remove. The suit just settled, not sure for how much. But that would suck.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:22pm“The homeowners said an electrical short in the crane may have caused it to extend farther than it should while carrying that kind of weight.”
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ALL cranes have a ‘load chart’ fixed to the side of it where the operator can see it. Doesn’t matter much, though, if no one knows how to use it. Relying on the electronic safety gagets to keep the crane from tipping is stupid and lazy.
Report Post »Just like all the gadgets car makers install in their cars now. So the car warns you when your about to crash or drives the car or parks the car for the driver.
Dustoff
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:23pmThat Crane doesn’t look at that small. I’ve seen a few hot-tubs installed by cranes and they were not even close to this size.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:42pmRead the headlines and thought, “crane (bird), pool and house” – big deal. Whoops!
Report Post »drbage
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:51pmCould this engineer operating the crane be one of the 10,000 that the O is planning on conjuring out of thin air every year?
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:21pm@banjarmon
Report Post »“an electrical short in the crane may have caused it to extend farther than it should while carrying that kind of weight.”
Looks like it was a union operator operating a union built crane. Way To Go Unions, really earning your money aren’t you.
deadb4red
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:22pmOperator error. It is as simple as that. He did not follow the load charts, and the electrical glitch is where he bypassed the boom limit. If someone were killed, he probably be going to jail.
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:00pmIdiots!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:28pmThis is one for the books.
Report Post »Louie Louie the Progressive
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:56pmHappens everyday ……………….gotta do the math before the lift
Report Post »Opinionmonger
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:02pmyesp, but look at the end-situation, the extenders are sideways and not backwards ant the back of the crane.
Report Post »This really looks like an operator error.
side ways ik OK when picking up, but lifting over the house they shoukd have reset the extenders. to the rear.
lazyness? incompetence ? or maybe both.
wildbluyonder11
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 7:19am@ Dustoff, I like your profile pic there. I was a member of “The Original Dustoff” from ‘93 to ’96. Brings back memories.
Report Post »melmatmic
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:34amThis is the same crane that did Peloser’s face lift. Same thing happened.
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