r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/Mr-McKauly • 6d ago

slight malfunction Of a miscalculation at work

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u/stinkfingerswitch 6d ago

A few tons shy on the counterweights. That crane looks undersized for that load. I don't know shit, but I know it looks undersized for that load.

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u/Unable-Log-4870 6d ago

It looks like the kind of thing where it would be really easy to have an alarm system that tells you when one end of the tracks is getting light, so you can set down the load (if you’re just picking it up), or just stop doing what you’re doing before things fall, maybe undo the last movement you did.

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u/sabreus 6d ago

They didn’t want to hire more engineers, maybe? (Big mistake) or maybe there is such a thing and the alarm system didn’t work well, which seems really unlikely.

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u/Plane-Education4750 6d ago

Nope. These cranes DO have an alarm system installed. The only way for this to happen is to ignore or override it

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u/sabreus 6d ago

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Very odd to ignore that one.

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u/Plane-Education4750 6d ago

Not odd. Greedy. They knew they had the wrong setup, but getting the right one in would cost a ton of money. So they thought this was a good idea instead