
Someone lost their job...
Someone lost their job...
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- dannygraves
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Back in college, I used to work weekends at the docks in Beaumont, Texas as a longshoreman. We had to load flour into an old rust bucket Vietnamese cargo ship. The crane operator was having all kinds of problems with the controls and the absolutely worthless ship's electrician had a tool box that consisted of a pair of uninsulated pliers, half roll of electrical tape, and a few pieces of wire. We started at the very bottom of the hold loading 120 lb bags of flour brought down on pallets. There were two long metal bars that hooked under the boards at either end of the pallets for lifting. Every time the empty pallets going back up got to the top of the hold (about 6 - 7 stories high), they would bang into the hold cover before clearing the hold because of the operator having so much problems with the screwy crane controls. A pallet came down with 3 bags ripped open so we sent them back up for the sack sewers. Sure enough, when the pallet hit the hold cover, the pallet and those three bags came down. About half way down, the pallet caught air, flew up under a bulkhead, and shattered. The three bags came straight down, hit the bottom where we were, and everything went white for about 20 minutes. It's one of those things you can laugh about now since no one got hurt; but, it was a little scary watching that stuff coming down.
- arleybeer40
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I love watching crane accidents. They could all be prevented if the operators were'nt so greedy. First rule of operating a crane: never exceed listed load ratings in your load chart. Second rule of crane operation: better be able to jump and run fast. I have my crane operating license and thats what they told me



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