BOAT JOKES (we need a few laughs)

[safewalrus]

Beautiful! theres no other words for it! The skills it took to do that, amazing!

Note EVEN the third crane isn't rigged properly!!!!

[Bergalia]

Reckon the drivers must have just come off a banana boat....

[marshmat]

I've seen that set with the cranes before. The first five were reportedly genuine; the ones of the second crane falling in are Photoshopped. (You can clearly see the same people standing in the exact same places in different photos, one has an extra copy of the flipped crane, the doorframes change colour when the green crane "falls" in, and you can see the seams where the pictures were cut apart in the last few.) Hilarious nonetheless though, especially the first few which are real.

[Guillermo]

Only the two last are photoshopped in my opinion. Funny anyhow.

[marshmat]

You're right of course, GG. First 8 are real, not 5. The last 2 are fake.

[safewalrus]

Still goes with a 'splash'

[charmc]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Reckon the drivers must have just come off a banana boat....

I've seen those pix before, agree the last two are fake. Silly, really, the actual sequence is hilarious by itself.

Don't know about the banana boat, but I suspect that each of those highly skilled fellows was exposed to some liquid other than the water in the dock that evening.

By the way, Walrus, I seem to recall that the incident took place somewhere in the British Isles....Cornwall, perhaps??

[Frosty]

I dont really want to be the one to let the cat out of the bag but the bloke at the back, see the one picking his nose thats walrus.

He was in charge of that lift. It a good job they managed to complete the job as they had run out of cranes.

[safewalrus]

You don't know how close you are Jack, it's my style!!! (not - **** I'd get my Approved Person card well and truly endorsed for that one! But hell it would be almost worth it!) But I would be at the back 'cos I could see how it would go if they can't rig up properly - yep Charm I do believe it is Cornish in style, can't quite figure out the harbour but I'm working on it!

[Ari]

These photo had surfaced in our heavy lifting course a few years ago. The first crane is less than 20tonne crane.The first crane had never extended the outrigger, the reason why it topple is that crane are not design to do lifting with the wheels touching the ground. Tyres will compress and bounce back! The second crane doesnt extended the out rigger fully, so lifting capability was compromised! Positioning of the lifting side of all the crane are compromised too.The second crane do actually topple into the water.

[safewalrus]

Well done Ari, you might like to add that the lift in each case was way above what the crane was designed to lift at that extent of the jib!! Don't forget the more you extend the jib (Jib out) the less the lift you can lift dramatically!!

[marshmat]

Cranes not properly set up of course, in all cases.
But if the second one really did fall in, why are the photos of it falling in faked?
open http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/att...8&d=1176628725 and http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/att...1&d=1176628725 side by side, you'll see the second is just the background of the first with the truck photoshopped in at a different angle- and there's changes to the buildings too, yet certain people are exactly the same. Having done a lot of digital manipulation in my time, I recognize a shoddy Photoshop job when I see it.
It doesn't change the fact that the first crane operator was flat-out clueless, though, which is kind of the point of the whole thing....

[Poida]

I don't know anything about cranes but I know they are not supposed to fall in the water.

Poida (I think)

[safewalrus]

thought they were wading birds and thus prone to a bit of falling now and then - especially on a Friday night after the pubs chuck out!!

[rayk]

I found something interesting to down load.