Anyone fancy a crane drivers job?

[John Arton]

Definitely not for me, I'll stick to haggurland deck cranes or munck gantry cranes.
Rgds
J.A.
https://www.theconstructionindex.co....n-fulham?amp=1

[Bill Morrison]

I think you are very wise John. Do you remember this one month ago in London.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53339296

[vic mcclymont]

When I was 15 and working at Lithgows, I was tasked with taking a message to the driver of one of the sixty ton cranes. Terrified, yup, he was lifting a sixty to section as I climbed the ladder, bloody crane felt as though it was going to topple.
Vic

[Fouro]

During my apprenticeship 'block and tackle' was used for taking out old heavy machinery and installing new heavy machinery in the paper mill especially in places where space was limited.
Using block and tackle was also a means of developing muscles in your arms.

Regards from
Fouro.

[j.sabourn]

Never without your handy billy then Fouro ? Never really got my head around the reasoning for a tackle to be rigged to advantage or disadvantage. To be rigged to advantage the hauling part that’s you on the end of it, moving in the same direction as the weight going up. That means physically you had to contort yourself , and not able to use your own weight to heave on the tackle. Either that or I have gone for years being misinformed. Too late now to correct. JWS

PS according to that theory if correct I and others always used it to disadvantage. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

People are starting to become a little overconfident, over the last couple of years there have been numerous crane accidents, especially with the high flyers.
Des

[Ivan Cloherty]

Never really got my head around the reasoning for a tackle to be rigged to advantage or disadvantage. I and others always used it to disadvantage. JS

I think with a handy billy we always used it to disadvantage john, rigging it so that the user pulled upwards (advantage) always seemed nonsense, think the only time any rigging used to advantage was when rigging steam guys on jumbos and then had to be led through a snatch block, Or perhaps we've both got it wrong, perhaps we need a tanker man to tell us!

[j.sabourn]

It was common practice to heave the accomodation ladder up by putting the handy billy on the gangway tackle to heave it up as the tide went down against the quay m as heaving on the tackle was more than a 1 man job. The was no other choice but to have the billy at disadvantage. Nobody gave it a second thought anyway.. makes you wonder what a great safety man would make of it. Probably wouldnt know what we were talking about. JS.

[Tony Taylor]

#8
First I heard that word for years. Used to get some vacant looks from people when I went shoreside, as with spanish windlass.

[j.sabourn]

One ship was on had car decks built in two holds and carried 600 motor cars so had 2400 Spanish windlasses on 2400 wheels which had to be checked periodically. By law at the time also had to have extractor fans fitted to these holds., which I soon found out caused the
cars bodywork to rust quicker than normal , so unofficially tried not to use too much. Wonder again about the safety man? As these cars were brand new Volkswagen’s from Germany to Honolulu wonder what would have happened if they got a claim for X millions of dollars. JWS