What sort of brain designs something like this?

[Thingy]

What sort of brain designs something like this?

The next time you drive the pipes at Nantua and over the stilts, or Mont Blanc stilts, and wonder at the engineering, think how they build something like that, and how on earth do you start to design this.

https://youtu.be/PbaD2-2Ktwc

 

[Hutch]

Just a refined Bailey Bridge, WW2, British built. HooRa HooRa HooRa.

 

[pitpony]

Thingy,
I've seen that piece of of kit before it's brilliant, Hutch, my brother in law god rest him after landing on Omaha on D-Day went on through Europe building Bailey Bridges,

 

[pensioner]

Yes,,fascinating isn't it,,we watched the whole program some time ago.

 

[KeefySher]

Designed by Kirow, a German company. Same principles as a crane boom, but operated in the horizontal plane. The difference is the Chinese get on and do it, the western world puts excuses in the way these days

Until the Kirow rail mounted crane was introduced in the UK by a colleague, the railway had steam driven 12 ton cranes. The hoops jumped through were incredible as it's not invented here nor been done before like we've always done it.

An advancement from building bridges with stick derricks as I was taught in remote places in the world Where's my block and tackle and 3000 men on the end of the rope?? :evil: :evil:

 

[pitpony]

Designed by Kirow, a German company. Same principles as a crane boom, but operated in the horizontal plane. The difference is the Chinese get on and do it, the western world puts excuses in the way these days

Until the Kirow rail mounted crane was introduced in the UK by a colleague, the railway had steam driven 12 ton cranes. The hoops jumped through were incredible as it's not invented here nor been done before like we've always done it.

An advancement from building bridges with stick derricks as I was taught in remote places in the world Where's my block and tackle and 3000 men on the end of the rope?? :evil: :evil:

Good post my friend obviously you know what you are on about, when I was a baby drivers mate working for a heavy haulage firm we delivered all the bridge sections for the Mancunian Way and all the beams for the bridges in and around Manchester and the M61, ever heard of Leonard Faiircloughs,

 

[KeefySher]

Designed by Kirow, a German company. Same principles as a crane boom, but operated in the horizontal plane. The difference is the Chinese get on and do it, the western world puts excuses in the way these days

Until the Kirow rail mounted crane was introduced in the UK by a colleague, the railway had steam driven 12 ton cranes. The hoops jumped through were incredible as it's not invented here nor been done before like we've always done it.

An advancement from building bridges with stick derricks as I was taught in remote places in the world Where's my block and tackle and 3000 men on the end of the rope?? :evil: :evil:

Good post my friend obviously you know what you are on about, when I was a baby drivers mate working for a heavy haulage firm we delivered all the bridge sections for the Mancunian Way and all the beams for the bridges in and around Manchester and the M61, ever heard of Leonard Faiircloughs,

I recall Faircloughs from my early days of work. I think if my memory serves me well, they were early adopters of Iron Fairy cranes, i.e. lift and shift (move with load on the hook). They are now AMEC I believe. We, as in the UK, have lost our pioneering spirit. When it was Great Britain it was run by Engineers, since it's been an island annex of Europe and run by bean stealers and lawyers we have regressed and are destined to be a 3rd world country, sadly :evil: :evil:

 

[pitpony]

Faircloughs did loads of bridge work can you remember the box girder bridges collapsing on the M61 when it was being built? we moved loads of them from Bolton to site on the M61, also at the time Faircloughs had a 60 ton Lorrainne crane really good bit of kit for its day not many hydraulic crane systems in those days although I'm only talking about the late 60's,

 

[Raywood]

Their did not appear to be any railings on top of the pillars. In this country that would be banned and the job would take twice as long.

 

[KeefySher]

Their did not appear to be any railings on top of the pillars. In this country that would be banned and the job would take twice as long.

Since that video was made the high speed railway they were building is operational!! In the UK after decades we still haven't got off the drawing board for a short high speed railway going north of London.

Would a railway, let alone a high speed one pass muster of a UK business case based on shirt termism, doubtful. However Brunel, Stephenson et al created wealth for centuries beyond the original 'business case', lots of profit made from layer upon layer of needless paperwork, but very little progress and delivery of critical infrastructure. Too many chiefs, not enuff injuns

The Chinese when using that kit operated a safe system of work, that strangely, worked safely. We have lots of forms to fill in and still kill workers, go figure The lawyers still make money and businesses create war chests to pay increased fines that shareholders evidently endorse and still workers die

 

[chrisbee1]

Good post my friend obviously you know what you are on about, when I was a baby drivers mate working for a heavy haulage firm we delivered all the bridge sections for the Mancunian Way and all the beams for the bridges in and around Manchester and the M61, ever heard of Leonard Faiircloughs,

Wasn't he Rita's beau in Coronation Street? :blink:

 

[pitpony]

Good post my friend obviously you know what you are on about, when I was a baby drivers mate working for a heavy haulage firm we delivered all the bridge sections for the Mancunian Way and all the beams for the bridges in and around Manchester and the M61, ever heard of Leonard Faiircloughs,

Wasn't he Rita's beau in Coronation Street? :blink:

Sorry Pal, that was Peter Adamsom,
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