Does, doesn't it. Also looks like it was a tower crane.
Track crane.
Tower crane.
Posted on 03/15/2008 2:52:06 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
The crane was 20 stories, and the building hit by the top piece was only 4 stories. Therefore, the heavy top section fell 15 stories, or about 150 feet.
Mayor Bloomberg has just said only 4 were killed, all construction workers on the crane.
He is still speaking.
We put a crane through a building at Prudhoe Bay. Really annoying since we had just run utilities through the corridor and it ripped it all down. Crane operators are the highest paid operators, possibly because they can do the most damage.
The cranes used for high-rise construction are enormous. An apartment building (read: four story walkup) could easily be crushed.
It actually looks as if, after it snapped, the top section flipped over before impact with small apartment building.
” Pachyderm” You talkin’ to me? “ Pachyderm?”
Anybody know what that small building is that got crushed? I’ve read it housed the Fubar bar on the ground floor, and have read differing reports saying the bar was occupied or unoccupied. But were there apartments above it? Looks like the bigger buildings didn’t take too bad a hit, but that little building is simply pulverized. One can only hope that a lot of people were out and about on a Saturday afternoon.
Does, doesn't it. Also looks like it was a tower crane.
Track crane.
Tower crane.
Just watched the video...Brutal.
I never really looked at compensation from that perspective.
Yeah, thank God the weather was perfect today.
The mayor said that one guy had just been removed alive from the bar, and they were looking for one more.
A woman who lived in the building had gone out shopping. There are only two other floors, and many apartments in NYC are not occupied full-time.
yup ,.. looks like , doesn’t it?
when all is “said & done” , it’ll be interesting to see a Virtual Recreation of this accident
bttt
“Working without a permit”? A homeowner can barely build a deck or a shed in some places without some inspector coming to see if they have a permit, but a 19 story crane is out there without a permit? It don’t compute to me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cxM83_hHJC8
May the victims RIP.
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What did Bush know and when did he know it? sarc/
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