M25 accident - Why i was held up

dig dug dan · Post: # 90507Post **dig dug dan** Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:23 pm

Cherry picker

Was stuck in a long queue today all because lane one was shut just before M4 (my turn off). Then when i got to the problem, i saw the remains of a cherry picker basket on the hard shoulder, with two traffic officer standing guard and a screen round it.
now i know why. Poor bloke, i thought those things were safe.
To cap it all, i delivered the crusher only for them to say they didn't want it, then the m4 was shut. so a 70 mile round trip took 6 hours, and netted me Â£80 in transport fees.
What a day

Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:26 pm

some poor fella died
LLL

Post: # 90519Post **Dave_L** Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:43 am

My god, that must have been awful. At least he won't have known much if anything about it. I feel sorry for the motorists who happened across it soon after it happened. That sort of thing would stick with you for life. Terrible.

rimexboy · Post: # 90584Post **rimexboy** Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:07 pm

That's some fall how high does that sort of picker go that looks some distance.... My thoughts are with his family and friends

Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:23 pm

think it was about 45 M

long way down

LLL

rimexboy · Post: # 90592Post **rimexboy** Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:49 pm

lutonlagerlout wrote:think it was about 45 M

long way down

LLL

wow that's some height so would it be caused by wind or uneven ground or what ...

London Stone Paving · Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:04 pm

I've been on a few of those cherry pickers at heights up to 15m but 45m??? That seems like insanity.
Poor bloke

rimexboy · Post: # 90598Post **rimexboy** Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:06 pm

London Stone Paving wrote:I've been on a few of those cherry pickers at heights up to 15m but 45m??? That seems like insanity.
Poor bloke

yer we had a job that went tits up and the panels needed cleaning they done that on cherry pickers and the guys said on a windy day they moved around a lot...

dig dug dan · Post: # 90599Post **dig dug dan** Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:16 pm

The machine was on level ground. I had a good look when i drove past. I suspect a gust of wind. I cannot see any other cause, as it was a wheeled machine, there was no outrigger failure

rimexboy · Post: # 90600Post **rimexboy** Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:47 pm

dig dug dan wrote:The machine was on level ground. I had a good look when i drove past. I suspect a gust of wind. I cannot see any other cause, as it was a wheeled machine, there was no outrigger failure

that's crazy... poor fella

Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:57 pm

I went past saturday on the way to LSP yard

they used to have all the cherry pickers up high,they are all down low now

I was under the impression the big ones all have stabilising jacks when extended?
LLL

rimexboy · Post: # 90606Post **rimexboy** Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:10 pm

lutonlagerlout wrote:I went past saturday on the way to LSP yard

they used to have all the cherry pickers up high,they are all down low now

I was under the impression the big ones all have stabilising jacks when extended?
LLL

yes when ever I've gone past they are all up high I guess advertising or saving space

Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:11 pm

found this elsewhere
cherry picker chat
LLL

mickg · Post: # 90612Post **mickg** Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:09 pm

I have never been in a cherry picker and to be honest I never will but my thoughts are with relatives and friends of the man who died in this tragic incident

rab1 · Post: # 90629Post **rab1** Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:31 pm

On the larger Genie machines the wheels move outwards to create a larger base, the baskets will always bounce due to the flex in the machines boom.