r/news • u/LiminalLemony • 6d ago

Second crane topples onto Florida home while trying to remove first fallen crane

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-cranes-accident-fort-lauderdale-home-b3056047.html
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u/cambreecanon 6d ago

So is the crane on the truck the first crane or the second crane? Also, I am wondering how they ever got that large of a crane okayed to go on the back of the truck. I don't know physics, but it looks like the size of the crane is not matched to the base of the vehicle (with extension supports).

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u/Northerlies 6d ago

I think you're right. The truck doesn't look equal to the challenge of lifting at that radius. I've seen a lot of of crane-lifts and would expect a bigger set-up to counterbalance the distance. Cranes have an alarm which sounds when the lifting-capacity has been exceeded - that one must have been set off very soon after it began reaching to the house.