Crane crushes roof while lifting pool

This crane driver clearly didn't check the weight of the pool he was lifting over a house in the U.S. Part way through the video he nearly clips the chimney, which is bad enough, he should be nowhere near it. But as he extends the crane arm to position the pool before lowering, the weight overcomes the crame which tips forward and crushes the roof of the house.

The driver is upset mainly because he doesn't understand how it happened. We think he needs a few lessons on how this whole heavy object and gravity thing works.

Russians show us how not to crane lift a pipe

A very old looking crane and a very heavy looking pipe. This has disaster written all over it, and it nearly is.

It looks as though the line holding one end of the pipe in the air fails as workers try to hook the other end. The man standing on the machine to the right when this happens is very lucky not to get crushed, and if the pipe had slid at its base who knows what could have happened to the man standing at the end with the hook.

The force of the release pushes the crane in the opposite direction and ultimately on to its side. They are going to need another crane now to rectify the first.

Source: The Construction Index

Don't undermine the structure!

John has spent the last two days training members of Berkeley Group in Demolition & Asbestos Awareness from the client perspective.

During the course he has said, on more than one occasion, never undermine the structure when using a High Reach machine. So imagine his surprise when he got to his hotel to find that Rob Kulinski, a Twitter user known as @RobtheWrecker, had sent this piece of footage that perfectly sums up why you should never undermine the structure.

Football and construction sites do not mix

The World Cup is over, and we can all get back to enjoying football again. But a word of warning, if you see a football on a construction site do the right thing and lock it up until the end of the day. Otherwise, something like this could easily happen: