liebherr1160
Senior Member
Grove TMS 700E
Hangin iron over an American Airlines terminal at an airport shortly after 9/11..
Full permit ,red lights, security ... not much left in the permit we were hustling to get 80 lifts up ..Connector's cut me loose,cast my ball out ,turnned the crane loose looking for my groundman ..booming up and sinking the ball ...
All of a sudden ,,BEEP, BEEP.. lights flashed all over the console .. that crane ground to a stop faster than any operator would like with 110 main and 33 jib ,25 degree offset.. at a little better than 60degree's main boom angle.. full throttle ,full boom up ,full hoist down ,,and hauling on the swing to get the crane where it needs to go ..
Engine died ..Its the quietest I've ever heard an airport ..look back up theres the ball now a good 50 ft ahead of the crane and it comming back ..swings back and whale's into a beam web ..with a rather unsettling noise.. Iron workers have already scattered above and below..
Couldnt restart the crane ,no power ,dead stick ,flat line... called up the shop ,got a mechanic down ..the usual ,check fuse's ,batteries, power couplings,LMI and ECM for power at its source ..
nadda ,nothing ..
Pulled the cover of the electrical post ...spagetti,, every wire in there was either ripped out ,twisted ,or streched tight.. the set screw had backed of on the electrical post .. in effect it was the same thing as ripping the umbilical cord of a shovel..
no quick fix ..schematics, wire cutters ,crimpers ,and patience..
now the permit has expired ,and because were in the airport over an American based airlines terminal we are effectivly invading America's air space ,with more than a 100 feet of boom and what was deemed to be a potential projectile hanging off the end. ..the degenerates who ..i know have a job to do ,didnt need to get a tone and offer up what punishment I was in for if i didnt remove that crane right now, Immediatly, And i wouldnt have laughed that hard if it was in my power to get her down ..Broke is Broke gentilemen ..I'll get a torch and lay the boom down on that section right there ..
Thankfully ..the RCMP showed up along with Airport Authority and we were left alone long enough to limp the machine down ,in ,and out off the site
Good Times:Banghead
Hangin iron over an American Airlines terminal at an airport shortly after 9/11..
Full permit ,red lights, security ... not much left in the permit we were hustling to get 80 lifts up ..Connector's cut me loose,cast my ball out ,turnned the crane loose looking for my groundman ..booming up and sinking the ball ...
All of a sudden ,,BEEP, BEEP.. lights flashed all over the console .. that crane ground to a stop faster than any operator would like with 110 main and 33 jib ,25 degree offset.. at a little better than 60degree's main boom angle.. full throttle ,full boom up ,full hoist down ,,and hauling on the swing to get the crane where it needs to go ..
Engine died ..Its the quietest I've ever heard an airport ..look back up theres the ball now a good 50 ft ahead of the crane and it comming back ..swings back and whale's into a beam web ..with a rather unsettling noise.. Iron workers have already scattered above and below..
Couldnt restart the crane ,no power ,dead stick ,flat line... called up the shop ,got a mechanic down ..the usual ,check fuse's ,batteries, power couplings,LMI and ECM for power at its source ..
nadda ,nothing ..
Pulled the cover of the electrical post ...spagetti,, every wire in there was either ripped out ,twisted ,or streched tight.. the set screw had backed of on the electrical post .. in effect it was the same thing as ripping the umbilical cord of a shovel..
no quick fix ..schematics, wire cutters ,crimpers ,and patience..
now the permit has expired ,and because were in the airport over an American based airlines terminal we are effectivly invading America's air space ,with more than a 100 feet of boom and what was deemed to be a potential projectile hanging off the end. ..the degenerates who ..i know have a job to do ,didnt need to get a tone and offer up what punishment I was in for if i didnt remove that crane right now, Immediatly, And i wouldnt have laughed that hard if it was in my power to get her down ..Broke is Broke gentilemen ..I'll get a torch and lay the boom down on that section right there ..
Thankfully ..the RCMP showed up along with Airport Authority and we were left alone long enough to limp the machine down ,in ,and out off the site
Good Times:Banghead
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