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11-13-2020, 01:45 PM
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Re: Lifting Excavator Goes Wrong
I counted 5 seconds before the lights in the shaft went out. If we assume the lights went out when it hit wiring / equipment on the ground, and assume perfect free fall (negligible wind drag on 100,000 steel object), then I calculate about 400 feet of freefall. Seems excessive height to drop an excavator, but look at the covered stairs in the photo, its at least a couple hundred feet. I wonder if there is a guy in the cabin, it makes me think of the Nazis in their car flying off the road in the Blues Brothers...
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11-23-2020, 07:10 AM
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Re: Lifting Excavator Goes Wrong
Woah, awesome footage! Can't believe that bloke still lingered around with those chains swinging!
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02-09-2021, 05:54 PM
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Re: Lifting Excavator Goes Wrong
by the way it sounded when it fell, it took a bit to hit the buttom, must been pretty deep,
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02-10-2021, 01:31 PM
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Re: Lifting Excavator Goes Wrong
Falling that far would have likely killed, never mind with a hunk of metal following you.
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