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Double Death Wish
The lamp is almost nine metres/30ft from the ground and the job is short.. so what does he use to reach it? A 10 metre trailer lift? A 12 metre boom lift? A 10 metre scissor lift? Not at all, he makes do with a Genie GS1930 – an indoor elevator scissor lift with maximum working height of 25ft/7.5 metres. First of all he leaves it on the delivery trailer ….sin one, or perhaps using an indoor machine outside is sin one? then to get the extra bit of height he stands on the guardrail....
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Loading accident
Two cars crashed into a boom lift as it was being unloaded in a busy street in Delray Beach, Florida yesterday morning. The large telescopic boom lift was being unloaded in the dark at around 5:30 in the morning and was reportedly crossing the highway when the cars crashed into the lift. Amazingly those involved only suffered minor injuries. ...
Excavator access
The following photograph was snapped at Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand by an Australian reader. He spotted a man riding an excavator boom as he might ride an elephant. One assumes that he was using the machine to reach something that was too high for any access equipment available on site? Well at least he was wearing a hard hat! ...
Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations
The Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010 (the ‘Regulations’) come into force on 6 April 2010. The Regulations require certain information about conventional tower cranes used on construction sites to be notified to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)....
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