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Construction Equipment

Crane tips over in work zone, drops roller on top of a car

According to recently released data, the most dangerous work zones in the U.S. are in Texas. However, to Texas’ credit, at least rollers aren’t falling from the sky in the Lone Star state. It’s unclear exactly where in the world this video takes place but if you ever see this crew and this bright green […]

January 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

Craneception? Crane lifts a crane lifting a crane, lifting a crane which is also lifting a crane

In one of the coolest machine demos we’ve ever seen, Liebherr chose to show off the capabilities of its crane lineup in 2012 with a stunt that looks as if it were inspired by the movie “Inception.” We start with an LTR 1100 lifting a scale model into the air, followed by an LR 1350 […]

December 26, 2014

Construction Equipment

Man gets jail time for bungee jumping 140 feet from crane on Wisconsin construction site

A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaking into a Sheboygan construction site and then bungee jumping 138 feet from a crane. According to the Wisconsin Radio Network, 26-year-old Nicholas Propson climbed a fence to enter the jobsite and then scaled the crane before making the bungee jump—all in the name […]

November 26, 2014

Construction Equipment

Freight train obliterates stuck truck and crane in tow, then derails

While attempting to cross railroad tracks in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, a truck hauling a crane became stuck on the tracks and was hit by a freight train Sunday afternoon. The scary collision was caught on camera by a woman stopped at the tracks behind the truck and posted to YouTube. As you can see in […]

October 10, 2014

Construction Equipment

Weight of crane shoves hauler into a jackknife that sends crane over a hillside

We’ve all been involved in tense situations. But few of us have ever been in this tense of situation. In the video below, we see a hauler bringing in a Link-Belt crane to a jobsite. Problem is there’s a pretty steep dirt slope between the hauler and said jobsite. As the driver starts carefully descending the […]

August 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

5 minutes of crane FAILS: toppling over hills, trains, buildings

Appropriately titled “Crane FAIL Compilation 2013,” the video below puts together a 5-minute retrospective of the worst videotaped crane failures that came to light in the last year. Most of these failures come from our friends in Russia and, thankfully, maybe only one or two come from the U.S. There’s a bit of everything. Cranes […]

December 27, 2013