Comments on: Crane Fail

By: homo

homo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:17:01 +0000

thanks for the buzzkill, Captain Honest . t. killzmybuzz

By: FreddeX91

FreddeX91 — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:23:34 +0000

@ yo

THAT is what they WANT you to think ^^

By: Mooncatt

Mooncatt — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:13:56 +0000

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*

By: medikal market

medikal market — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:33:52 +0000

I think this is the same bridge by my work lol

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:05:59 +0000

no that was a low boy or RGN not a flat bed retard

By: Failmaker420

Failmaker420 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:20:20 +0000

Lol this happened where I live too. Almost closed the Interstate, pissed me off to no end.

By: Jones

Jones — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:23:06 +0000

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

By: H.-P.

H.-P. — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:36:48 +0000

fail. fly but fail

By: Erotikxx

Erotikxx — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:06:19 +0000

Send in the FAIL CRANE!

By: Red42

Red42 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:37:19 +0000

It helped me stop smoking 5 years ago. ,

By: Chris Nelson

Chris Nelson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:49:26 +0000

It looks like it’s from Boise but the bridge they hit has 4 lanes.

By: tahrey

tahrey — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:23:32 +0000

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?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:41:52 +0000

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.

By: katorbergson

katorbergson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:42:27 +0000

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.

By: L/\nG

L/\nG — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:46:05 +0000

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

By: 4

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:26:15 +0000

How did it even get that far…? That’s halfway through the bridge…

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:28:03 +0000

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.

By: Gerritt Hummer

Gerritt Hummer — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:31:00 +0000

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

By: abby

abby — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:20:12 +0000

i actually saw this years ago in hays kansas..funny stuff

By: Carrot Fox

Carrot Fox — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:48:55 +0000

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.

By: Scrow

Scrow — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:17:41 +0000

I LOL’d at work.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:57:14 +0000

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?)

By: matt

matt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:48:58 +0000

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

By: Ann Onymuss

Ann Onymuss — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:09:28 +0000

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.

By: Ann Onymuss

Ann Onymuss — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:07:25 +0000

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.

By: HeScoresHeShoots

HeScoresHeShoots — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:59:01 +0000

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.

By: rareblogger

rareblogger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:31:17 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:03:48 +0000

Reply – WIN!

By: Ruman

Ruman — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:13:01 +0000

Even if it’s photoshopped, all it means is that TWO cranes did that.

By: jimmie

jimmie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:31:52 +0000

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

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:38 +0000

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.

By: Vala

Vala — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:43:33 +0000

This is indeed in Hays, Kansas, my friend has similar pictures of the exact thing

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:22:36 +0000

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 . . .

By: JT

JT — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:54:19 +0000

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.

By: liteswitch

liteswitch — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:34:40 +0000

I submitted this also, only with better quality…….. QUIT FAILING FAILBLOG!!! and I actually know the photographer…. effin fail…

By: asdf

asdf — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:48:07 +0000

another know it all. good thing you share your wisdom on blogs, where it really matters

By: fgsfds

fgsfds — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:47:55 +0000

Ignore this comment, I overestimated the speed.

By: fgsfds

fgsfds — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:56:27 +0000

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.

By: fgsfds

fgsfds — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:47:45 +0000

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

By: choyak yakatak

choyak yakatak — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:17:56 +0000

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.

By: WickedFrost

WickedFrost — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:11:22 +0000

Very real indeed.

By: Bucky

Bucky — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:43:02 +0000

Well thought out reply fail.

By: Reece

Reece — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:55:46 +0000

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.

By: not-so-commom-sense

not-so-commom-sense — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:02:44 +0000

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.)

By: gruelin1

gruelin1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:07:21 +0000

all you who said photoshop FAIL!!!!

By: Tanoshindi

Tanoshindi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:15:42 +0000

What did they use for rebar? Twist ties?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:25:05 +0000

Wooha, paper bridge of death.

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:24:26 +0000

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

By: SgtOldSchool

SgtOldSchool — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:46:39 +0000

I think that’s actually an excavator, not a crane.
Everyone who called it a crane = FAIL!

By: paenian

paenian — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:04 +0000

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.