Wreckers!!

[Lofty1984]

Just to put that in perspective , when they built the Barton Bridge over the ship canal to carry the motorway , that collapsed . The main contractors had a subby in to do the steelwork , and they paid their steel erectors on tonnage in the air . It was coming up for a holiday and they were after bonus , so they stuck a whole lot of heavy steel up without any bracing , and predictably the whole lot came down . There were "H" section girders about 5 feet across the flat and nearly the same on the web that had come down with such force that they had cold forged themselves in a perfect "mould" over the concrete coffer dams on the ground . One chap actually rode it down , and walked away , but another wasn't quite so agile / lucky , and they had to get a shovel and literally scrape him up into a sack . Just to put a finish to the tale , they got Dorman from Middlesborough to sort it , and employed a professor from Manchester Uni to supervise . He banned ALL hammers or other percussive tools - wooden forms had to be made on the ground and screwed into place . He had one man who's only job was to carry a pint of tea for him and to get another if it went cold . At the end they floated the centre section in on barges and the prof rode it in , with 4 winches and crossed steel cables attached , each cable had a white hanky tied to the exact centre and when they crossed , that was the bridge in position . There were just a couple of men to slip the pins in to attach it and they came down in absolute wonderment at the pinpoint accuracy - they said the pins didn't hardly need a sledge hammer to drive them home . They must have done a decent job - it's still there !

Interesting but why ban hammers?

 

[Av Gorritt]

He said that the whole of the viaduct that was still standing was so delicately balanced that just about ANY vibration could have brought the rest of it down !

 

[Campbell]

Hereford this am. In days of old when Knights were bold.....

 

[grainboy]

Ooopps
That won’t be productive anymore

 

[stevedave]

Ooopps
That won’t be productive anymore View attachment 1017021

Must have been on the phone.

 

[farmerm]

Ooopps
That won’t be productive anymore View attachment 1017021

£20 million

 

[watfordfrosty]

good job there were calls for the others to be inspected I doubt the site owners would have thought to check them otherwise

 

[ridger]

good job there were calls for the others to be inspected I doubt the site owners would have thought to check them otherwise

I like how it says, sparked calls

 

[onthehoof]

Hope you can view this

https://m.facebook.com/groups/297672463979045/permalink/1279967799082835/

 

[PSQ]

"For sale, Land Rover Discovery, very clean underneath":

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686667136030830

 

[Agriimark]

"For sale, Land Rover Discovery, very clean underneath":

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686667136030830

Is the roof rack included in the sale?

 

[melted welly]

Brave/daft lad stood on the bridge if that’s all holding the truck back

 

[thorpe]

"For sale, Land Rover Discovery, very clean underneath":

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686667136030830

wont it go? ithink he flooded it!

 

[spanners and hammers]

not sure hes dipped his headlights

 

[MF565]

I thought this may have been posted already but someones gonna be in for the high jump.

PaulFacebook

www.facebook.com

And after the barge drifted away

TikTok - Make Your Day

 

[Wombat]

I thought this may have been posted already but someones gonna be in for the high jump.

PaulFacebook

www.facebook.com

And after the barge drifted away

TikTok - Make Your Day

saw that on with the purple jib in a photo and wondered what had happened

 

[CPF]

The EA officer representing the project they were working on said it can stay there as it will not cause flooding

 

[primmiemoo]

"For sale, Land Rover Discovery, very clean underneath":

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686667136030830

Thread 'Off-roaders ‘tear up’ flooded fields in Derbyshire' https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...tear-up’-flooded-fields-in-derbyshire.364071/

 

[CPF]

A few months ago

 

[Wombat]

A few months ago

Is that the airport they use for climbing Everest?