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hey that isn’t a fail, the mission of this machine is break brigdes with a kind of big cutter xD
Actually, this was on a flatbed trailer, and the driver decided to change the route he took. Of course, that route was specifically chosen so that there were no low underpasses. The driver went off course, and, well, you can see it for yourself.
It is completely real, it happened in Idaho (where I live), and you should be able to find it, if you include the date on Google.
This was the Hall street bridge in Hays, Kansas. Not Idaho. This closed eastbound I-70 for eleven days.
Here are a couple of links for explanation:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/hoecrash.asp
http://serv4.itsware.net/bb/viewtopic.php?p=3955
I am always surprised by how many people on this blog have no idea what they are talking about.
It looks like it’s from Boise but the bridge they hit has 4 lanes.
yes it was on a flatbed but the real story was that the driver forgot to lower the boom which went through the bridge. that poor excavator
Actually, I learned this from my MSHA instuctor. He was called out to this accident, I am not sure where it was at, but what happened, the driver loaded the crane, but failed to turn the machine off. He drove for a couple hundred mile and every time he hit a bump, the lever for the boom would barely move, but by the time it hit this bridge it was almost at full extension.
How did it even get that far…? That’s halfway through the bridge…
the crane was moving from left to right in that picture. the tip of the crane dragged against the bottom of the bridge. eventually it dug in and the force of the trailer pushing it along pushed it through the bottom of the bridge.
It didn’t crash from right to left through to the middle of the bridge, it merely poked a hole through the bottom.
Nice try, but for your next trick explain why the low-loader’s wheels are on the _right hand side_ of the image, and the fifth-wheel looking bit is on the left?
no that was a low boy or RGN not a flat bed retard
fail. fly but fail
@ yo
THAT is what they WANT you to think
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thanks for the buzzkill, Captain Honest . t. killzmybuzz
but then the bridge will fall on it if the operator dosnt do it right, so maby FAIL
I think this is the same bridge by my work lol
I suspect photoshop here. On the top pic, the bridge is sliced halfway from right to left: the right side shows a “bullet hole” while the left side is not sliced through. (See the side of the bridge.) So, the vehicle went from right to left while the crane pointed backwards. However, on the bottom pic, the crane points forward, in the direction where the slicing goes. That is impossible no matter which end of the bridge the photographer would have been.
Shut up clown, people who cry “photoshop” at every picture need to be slapped in the face with a trout. Consider the speed and weight involved, that boom probably bent due to its own momentum. Notice the smaller part has a visible bend near the elbow, so that’s fairly likely. Take a whiffle ball bat and hit a metal pole with great force, you will have a similar effect, one massive bend near the point of impact, but the remainder will be more or less straight. Think before you claim something is physically impossible, you may be missing something.
I hope that trucker had good insurance
ten reasons why this is impossible
one, there is no cutter
two, did anyone notice how thick the bridge is?
three, if the bridge was that badly damaged, it would have fallen down before the so-called cutter got halfway
four, there is no mark on the bottom of the bridge there the front part of the crane touched it (that is the only part that could have logically made the crack line on the top of the bridge)
five, look at where the loose wires are coming from-nothing to do with the rist of the photo
six, if that was a cutter (no such things exist-they use dynamite) the cutting device woud be suspanded to the rear of the currte, and the blade would hang over the bridge
seven, there is no way that that crane would have enough power to drag it’s boom through a concrete bridge
eight, explain how a blunt egde cut through re-bar (that isnt in the nonexistant cross-section of the bridge)
nine, if the bridge were being cut it would collapse in on itself under its own weight, think tree and a chainsaw
ten, the rubble under the bridge would not only make it difficult for the crant to get traction, there is too much of it in too big of pieceds to have been able to be removed by the “blade” (also, it would all be collected under the cutting site, think saw and sawdust.)
Well thought out reply fail.
another know it all. good thing you share your wisdom on blogs, where it really matters
This actually happened.
1. There needs to be no cutter. Have you ever tried to figure out the momentum of a track-hoe moving at 70mph?
2. Yes. That’s part of how amazing this is.
3. No. That’s what rebar is for. And that is why the bridge is so thick in the first place
4. No idea what you are even talking about there!
5. That’s called rebar. It is used in construction to reinforce concrete and to take the torsion stresses on the concrete.
6. Correct! Except that this is a track-hoe. Moving at 65-70 mph heats up the hydraulic fluid, causing the arm to raise. Normally the driver of the tractor-trailer combo would have gotten out of the truck before this had time to happen and released the pressure on the arm, but apparently this did not happen. Thus the huge arm of the excavator hit the bridge with enough force to do a large amount of damage.
7. It’s not a crane, and that’s not what it’s doing.
8. If you take a sledge hammer and hit block, it will smash it. Now take that sledge hammer, make it a 14 ton piece of machinery moving at freeway speed, and you can smash through just about anything.
9. The bridge is not being cut. It is being accidentally smashed through.
10. See number 9.
It really helps if you know what the situation is, know what the items involved are, and know what you are talking about.
Heyy shut up
its all physics , if he was travelling at enough speed it would have worked
sorry too say it but look how thick the twin towers were so you lose
Even if it’s photoshopped, all it means is that TWO cranes did that.
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Wow. Just wow. Your spelling and grammar mistakes have caused an angel somewhere to lose her wings. I don’t think anyone was seriously suggesting that there is a bridge “cutter” or “currte” as you say. The thing is an excavator on the trailer of a low-boy. Chances are the arm was barely higher than the clearance of the bridge but when it hit, it pulled the arm up. I do agree with you that this is somehow fake though, since it would be nearly impossible to cut a clean path through concrete.
Nah it happend. Hays, Kansas. I lived there when they had to close the interstate. I couldn’t believe it myself but that really happened lol
actualy what happened was it hit the bottom of the bridge, just below the railing, and was jacked up through the bridge stopping before breaking right through to the other side. if you go to snopes.com you can find this under thier phauxtography section with 2 more pictures including a picture of them trying to get it out later at night
Notice moron, the picture on the bottom is from the OTHER SIDE.
the top pic is from right to left, the bottom one is from left to right. The pictures were taken at diffrent angles numbnuts.
Anonymous,
I think you’re forgetting one simple thing… time. The crane was moved in the TIME between the pictures. This one (as far as I can tell) does not appear to be a photoshop and is thus an EPIC FAIL. Wow, how can someone fail so badly?! Maybe he was drunk and he stole it to go joyriding.
Hunter
unfortunatly, he was sober, otherwise he would have an excuse. he decided to take a route that he didnt have permission to (and can you guess why he wasnt allowed to take it?)
Ha. I think this is from Hays, Kansas. This actually happened on I-70 a year or so ago. Overpass was closed for almost 6 months.
This is indeed in Hays, Kansas, my friend has similar pictures of the exact thing
It is not a crane. It is a trackhoe. A large earth mover with a large boom for great reach. But anyway the truck driver FAILED
Definitely real. Check out the county report here:
http://serv4.itsware.net/bb/viewtopic.php?p=3955
There are even more pictures.
For me the engineer who constructed the bridge is the biggest failure here. What kind of bridge is it that you can just slice into parts with a crane? Consider the mass relations. If the bridge was proper, the crane should have just bent away.
Well nobs, consider the mass and speed involved. This is a giant earth mover being transported. So it’s going perhaps 60mph, weighing in at maybe 30 tons (no idea actual weight), but that’d be about ten million joules of kinetic energy. If the bridge is designed to support 100 tons over 100 feet (span) it’s roughly half a million joules static.
You can’t measure strength in energy, as whether something breaks obviously depends on how fast you give it that energy.
The story, unbelievable as is, appears to be true (check snopes.com).
Now, just for fun let’s do some calculations. According to snopes, the vehicle was 8 tons, and let’s say it was moving at 70mph. That’s 7273 kg at 31.3 m/s, which gives us a total energy of 3.56 million joules. It cut through 45 feet (13.7m) of the bridge before coming to a stop according to snopes. From the work and energy equations we get that the average force exerted on the vehicle by the bridge was about 260 thousand newtons :O
Ignore this comment, I overestimated the speed.
OK, let’s see if this comment will work this time.
Snopes says it cut 45′ into the bridge, and weighed 8 tons. Let’s assume it was going 60mph.
So that’s 7273kg moving at 26.8m/s, with a total kinetic energy of 2.6 megajoules.
It cut through 13.7m of the bridge
From the equations for work we find that the average force the bridge exerted on the vehicle was 191 thousand newtons!
I don’t work with concrete, so I’m not sure, but that certainly sounds like a reasonable amount of force for a thick concrete bridge to exert on a moving object.
I think that’s actually an excavator, not a crane.
Everyone who called it a crane = FAIL!
Wooha, paper bridge of death.
What did they use for rebar? Twist ties?
I LOL’d at work.
all you who said photoshop FAIL!!!!
For all of you who say photoshop, you fail. I saw it in person, I live in the city where this happened… Really slowed things down on the way to Wal-Mart…
Its real. I’ve seen it.
Very real indeed.
I want to get a hold of that metal boom. That is made of unobtanium and I will use it to build 100 kilometer tall tower, the tower foundation will attach to the earth’s crust with an inverted dome type structure. This seems like 1 billion times stronger than steel.
I give it all back if the bridge was new and didn’t cure yet.
I submitted this also, only with better quality…….. QUIT FAILING FAILBLOG!!! and I actually know the photographer…. effin fail…
what it looks like is the boom got hung up UNDER the bridge and shot up through the bottom which would explain why the sides werent damaged in the bottom pic, similar to when my cousin ran over a fork off a forklift and shot it through the floor of his truck right between my legs.
This did happen right outside Hays. I live here, and it was all over the papers and news. We’re even on Snopes! It’s kind of sad the only thing Hays is really known for in the internet is this and that one YouTube video . . .
The “bullet hole” on the left side of the pic is from where the cab of the machine swung up and rammed into the bridge while pivoting around its own boom. What a boom! Did anyone notice the totally trashed “low boy” trailer underneath? You can see 3 of its tires in the back, but not much else.
i actually saw this years ago in hays kansas..funny stuff
lolz i saw this exact thing!!! its definitely hays kansas because im from there and i saw that! loz didnt expect to see this up here
It helped me stop smoking 5 years ago. ,
Send in the FAIL CRANE!
Lol this happened where I live too. Almost closed the Interstate, pissed me off to no end.
I think this is the same bridge by my work lol
You know, you people are all wrong on one thing. I saw this in person myself as I was driving by, it’s it was plainly obvious that this earth mover was just practicing his shark impression! LOL
*cue jaws theme*