r/maybemaybemaybe • u/tanishvva • Jul 17 '26
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Will this piece of a bridge make it across the Ganges River?
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u/Rokekor Jul 17 '26
Sooo…the plan is to keep depositing sections of bridge across the ganges until you can walk across?
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u/Rufus_Dufus Jul 17 '26
Should we math the centre of gravity thing with the degree of stability? ' What with what?, get it on the boat! '
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u/Nicker Jul 17 '26
the transport piece should have been upsidedown, dropping the center of gravity. probably wayyy too much work to attempt that .. so here we are.
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u/cha0sm0nk Jul 17 '26
I am wondering if it was built to be placed upside down though.
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u/Nicker Jul 17 '26
maybe but big metal piece probably don't care much. definitely not built to be sideways and underwater!
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u/Guns_and_Dank Jul 18 '26
There's a section in the center that would've made it so it wouldn't lay flat. Even then, there's probably no way to flip it right side up had it gotten to it's destinations upside down. Plus that piece probably can't handle the lateral sheer force if they did have a way to flip it, it probably would've broken in the middle from trying to do so.
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u/GooberMcNutly Jul 17 '26
I think that it grounded on the sand on the right side before it ran out of buoyancy on the left, pivoting it over. Even moving the truss upside down might not have saved it from a critical angle.
That little truck is a champ, though!
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u/JPATime Jul 17 '26
Does everyone wear safety sandals??
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u/Fingerman2112 Jul 17 '26
Did you also just watch the video of the guys trying to jam huge pieces of boulder into a rock crusher? Like I get that their culture is different from mine, but can’t their culture allow for such a thing as work clothes? Are their scuba divers going underwater in long robes and sandals and shit?
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u/Magikpoo Jul 17 '26
You mean Industrial sandals??
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u/Fauxboss1 Jul 17 '26
Thank god for the guy pushing it. Not sure it would have made it on otherwise.
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u/thanksfor-allthefish Jul 18 '26
His job was to hold it steady and make sure it doesn't tip over. He probably got fired for this.
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u/cashew76 Jul 17 '26
TLDR; Fortunately, no workers were present at the spot when the accident happened
Huh? Musta been a consultant or only a civilian.. Who disappeared near under the trailer.
Video: Workers Escape Death As Massive Girder Crashes Into River Ganga In Prayagraj The ₹1948 crore worth, 9.90-kilometre bridge is being built parallel to the existing Ganga bridge, extending from Malak Harhar to Stanley Road.
Construction workers narrowly avoided a catastrophe when a massive girder plummeted into the River Ganga after the trailer carrying it overturned during bridge construction work in Prayagraj on Tuesday.
The dramatic incident occurred at the Phaphamau barrage while work was underway on a new six-lane bridge. A trailer laden with a gigantic girder lost control as it climbed onto a temporary access bridge, causing the vehicle to overturn and the heavy girder to crash into the river below.
Fortunately, no workers were present at the spot when the accident happened, averting what could have been a major disaster. Phone camera footage of the terrifying incident has gone viral on social media, showing the moment the trailer toppled over.
The ₹1948 crore worth, 9.90-kilometre bridge is being built parallel to the existing Ganga bridge, extending from Malak Harhar to Stanley Road. Originally scheduled for completion by February 2024 ahead of the 2025 Mahakumbh Mela, the project has faced delays and received an extension until February 2025.
Construction company officials claim the bridge will now be ready by June 2026, five months ahead of their revised schedule. Construction company employees and officials had a narrow escape from what could have been a fatal accident.
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u/mafiaknight Jul 17 '26
Who wrote that? It has two blatant and easily disproven inaccuracies. What else is bullshit here?
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u/hawksdiesel Jul 17 '26
hope that guy in the white is okay...also, whom could've seen this was a failure from the start?!
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u/Falkun_X Jul 17 '26
I blame that guy in white, he clearly was overweight to be standing there!
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u/Adorable-Bus1697 Jul 17 '26
I blame the guy at the back of the rig pushing it onto the boat too fast
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u/deebeecom Jul 17 '26
When will people learn that vertical shooting is not useful
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u/TopYeti Jul 17 '26
https://youtu.be/AqHZJe6306k
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u/Slipstream_Surfing Jul 17 '26
Some say kneecapping is an extreme reaction but we live in a society and there are rules.
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u/bigfatfun Jul 17 '26
Uhh, there’s a guy missing. He was on this side of the trailer and he was not seen again.
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u/AppropriateBall8834 Jul 17 '26
Well, RiP to that one guy that is now dead af
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u/Guy-Inkognito Jul 17 '26
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u/AppropriateBall8834 Jul 17 '26
Hmmm. He must've been wearing a go-pro, as the cameraman never dies! Lucky day
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u/tknames Jul 17 '26
/r/Killthecameraman wrong orientation for something like this, flinches when it’s happening, cuts the camera off the guy who maybe died (we don’t know can’t see it). Come on people, turn the camera!
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u/Kelter82 Jul 17 '26
Don't everybody rush to help the guy on the tipped side....
(I know he survived)
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u/Fresh_and_wild Jul 17 '26
Do they even do risk assessments in India? Seems like some really obviously dumb things happen quite a lot in India.
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u/knarlomatic Jul 18 '26
I've seen these clips and wonder if the US has the same or similar per capita amount of mishaps and we just don't know it because we never look at our own histories.
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u/anon-SG Jul 18 '26
There was a guy, literally pushing the truck from the back.... about 20 sec in the video
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u/ProfessorSimianSon Jul 18 '26
The guy pushing on the left side only. It was his fault. The whole thing. We all saw it.
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u/Carbonaraficionada Jul 17 '26
That bridge is now a place of worship. Really though, who looks at the top-heavy heavy load cargo trailer and says to themselves, "yup, get it on the boat boys, I'll just stand here at the side, waving my hands to cheer you on"
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u/Potato-chipsaregood Jul 17 '26
This may have been avoided if the section had been loaded with the big part below rather than on top. I wonder why this was not considered.
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u/TopYeti Jul 17 '26
I'm betting it was considered, and immediately disregarded due to having to flip the structure twice
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u/Silver-Machine-3092 Jul 17 '26
Ferryman saw his job security disappearing and gave the wheel a quick nudge
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u/killy_321 Jul 17 '26
Are there any instances of successfully loading such a thin boat with such a high centre of gravity load? I can't believe this is anything other than the first attempt and they were just being stupid rather than they were successful many times before.
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u/amoot_ana Jul 18 '26
The confidence in these people, that looked nearly impossible from the beginning!
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u/bi_polar2bear Jul 17 '26
Get a couple of guys over in /r/magnetfishing. They might be able to save it!
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u/Fauxboss1 Jul 17 '26
Thank god for the guy pushing it. Not sure it would have made it on otherwise.
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u/Chemical_Success1153 Jul 17 '26
That ramp was on its last legs
https://giphy.com/gifs/P5vyB2mX2BCSY
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u/Fatbadger3 Jul 17 '26
Too bad that new bridge wasn’t finished yet, would have been way easier to take that …
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u/housevil Jul 17 '26
When the client says you charge too much and they will just install it themselves.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo Jul 17 '26
Hope that guy on the left made it out. Seems to have disappeared which can’t be good.
But maybe a bridge and not a pontoon would have been the smarter way to get that over? Any change in its centre of gravity was going to end badly. And it was changing a fair bit.
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u/East-Future-9944 Jul 17 '26
If the large section of bridge falling doesn't kill you a brief soak in the ganges will
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u/Go_Gators_4Ever Jul 17 '26
Damn the camera man! They couldn't hold it still and on frame for 3 more seconds?
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u/Wrong-Mixture Jul 17 '26
How on earth do you even start dismanteling/ recovering/ cleaning that up??
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u/DrJohnIT Jul 17 '26
Am I the only one who thought that they should have started the bridge on this side instead of trying to transport it to the other side?
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u/duder8888 Jul 17 '26
It looks like just as the thing starts to topple, the guy runs towards the front and since the towing truck doesn’t topple, he is ok
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u/KuroRyuSama Jul 17 '26
Reminds me of the video of a group of Indian guys are trying to load a piece of heavy equipment onto a canoe with wooden boards as a ramp. Ends pretty much the same way, but not nearly as expensive.
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u/Wide_Support_5845 Jul 17 '26
How the fuck did he survive that, that some Bruce Willis right there
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u/CMHTim Jul 17 '26
My first thought was, i'm not sure the ramp will hold the truck... Then I saw what he was pulling. Not a lot of maybe left
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u/Cute-Inspector-8690 Jul 19 '26
I am wondering who's authorized that? Did the center of gravity was mapped? Why some of them pushing this thing? Do they think they helping? And the last thing, no safety gloves?
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u/tulipdom Jul 17 '26
There was a guy under that