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Were those the ones delivered to Portsmouth, VA?
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Pucker factor is standing on the apex (highest point in the middle) while 2 legs are on shore and 2 are still on the ship... While unloading the new cranes from the ship.. I was on all of these as a rigger during the moves.
Though that was in calm port waters.. Those things came across the pacific just as you see them..
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Were those the ones delivered to Portsmouth, VA?
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Those ones could be.. Not my pic but they look like some of the ones we got at LA / Long Beach, Ca.. We got at ton of new ZPMCs in the last 10 years.
These are the the ones I rigged.. Along with a few others deliveries.
Then after you get them in shore, you have to test them.. Nobody wants to be the guy to test the stop switches at the end of the boom with max load...
The drivers cab is at 140' above ground under the boom.. You pick up a max load which can be is 1.5x max working load of 120 tons and trolly at full speed, about 20 mph, out to the boom tip and don't let up on the controls..
There is supposed to be a slow down switch and then a stop switch to make sure you don't bounce off the hard stops.. But they usually come adjusted correctly..
WHAM!! Followed by a 8-10' lean forward and what is certain to be 2,000 tons of crane crashing on top of you in the water after a fall of 180'... (Over the water there is another 40' of drop...)
Fuck that shit.. Not fun..