[TowerTalk] man lift tips over

[Marc Willis]

Roger - That is right 'Move into place and then extend it.' I just put my
tower and antenna system up safely with an 80' man lift and it was awesome.
This is the 3rd time I have used this method and it is wonderful. Rule of
thumb 'move it and then extend'. Cheers and 73 Marc NC7M

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Roger (K8RI) <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>wrote:

>
>
> Eugene Jensen wrote:
> > OSHA will have a field day with this and my thought to the man family. I
> >
> One of the first things we were taught was to never move the base with
> the boom extended up.  That gives it a very high center of gravity.
>
> The story is a bit misleading as it is more of a case of the one wheel
> "falling through" an access cover than "running over" which gives the
> impression the other side was raised.. It may have dropped only a few
> inches, but with an arm that long raised that is one whale of a lot of
> leverage and momentum.  And yes, I'm speaking from the experience of
> rolling one over on it's side.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
> > just had my refresher class on these class machine's and interesting one
> > point the instructor keep going over way walking the pass of the machine.
> > Think about how these are used and they spend a lot of their time on work
> > site with soft earth. So cave in is number 1 way for a collapse of these
> > very heavy machines. 73 Gene K2QWD
> >
> Roll over...yes, they are easily rolled, but collapse. I've never seen
> one collapse yet although I'm sure it's happened..
>
> 73
>
> Roger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> > [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Seidl
> > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:05 PM
> > To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] man lift tips over
> >
> > How weird is that. It does say in the instruction manual to be aware of
> what
> >
> > you are driving over. Yes I read it before I went up with it. It says
> that
> > shallow buried pipes,water tanks, septic systems can all give way due to
> the
> >
> > weight of the lift. Gotta pay attention when doing nearly anything
> > today,death is just around the next oversight.
> >
> >   Gregg K9KL
> >
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