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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:23 pm
by dig dug dan
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 £80 in transport fees.
What a day
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:26 pm
by lutonlagerlout
some poor fella died
LLL
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:43 am
by Dave_L
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:07 pm
by rimexboy
That's some fall how high does that sort of picker go that looks some distance.... My thoughts are with his family and friends
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:23 pm
by lutonlagerlout
think it was about 45 M
long way down
LLL
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:49 pm
by rimexboy
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 ...
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:04 pm
by London Stone Paving
I've been on a few of those cherry pickers at heights up to 15m but 45m??? That seems like insanity.
Poor bloke 
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:06 pm
by rimexboy
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...
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:16 pm
by dig dug dan
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
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:47 pm
by rimexboy
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
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:57 pm
by lutonlagerlout
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
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:10 pm
by rimexboy
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
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:11 pm
by lutonlagerlout
found this elsewhere
cherry picker chat
LLL
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:09 pm
by mickg
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
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:31 pm
by rab1
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.