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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Having seen cables and mooring lines break I damn sure wouldn’t be standing next to any cable under tension like that.
We were recovering a D8 Cat from San Francisco Bay a long time ago after the first attempt failed. The operator back the D8 off of a sea wall at low tide, it flipped and landed upside down on top of him. The first heavy lift company showed up and just backed up to the sea wall, hooked a cable to the blade and thought they were going to muscle it back over and drag it out. They really leaned on it, the clevis on their cable broke and about 60 feet of 1" steel cable snapped back at the truck like a whip. Their truck was really fucked up, the operator was lucky no one got killed.

 
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We were recovering a D8 Cat from San Francisco Bay a long time ago after the first attempt failed. The operator back the D8 off of a sea wall at low tide, it flipped and landed upside down on top of him. The first heavy lift company showed up and just backed up to the sea wall, hooked a cable to the blade and thought they were going to muscle it back over and drag it out. They really leaned on it, the clevis on their cable broke and about 60 feet of 1" steel cable snapped back at the truck like a whip. Their truck was really fucked up, the operator was lucky no one got killed.


saw a video of a guy standing next to a truck using a winch and it snapped, came back at him and the driver, barely missed him but went through the glass and cut the guys mouth in half