Explosive crane demolition - GIF and video

2017 explosive demolition of the dockside cranes at the Inchgreen Drydock in Scotland.

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2:11 source video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAr2g6_p48


Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...209#post115950
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...119#post115591
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...244#post121476
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post115213
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...929#post124830
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...718#post123895
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...974#post125094
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3100#post98061

One wonders why they had not been used??

Ralph

A total waste the gear house winches slewing rings and support tower could easily have been up-cycled for other purposes The same goes for the lattice booms and Jibs.

depends on the fatigue life remaining - highly stressed, or highly critical machines like that have shorter life spans due to fatigue cracks, or the fear thereof. You often see EWPs, cranes etc being auctioned off at 10 years old, and they go cheap because the legislated inspections to prolong their working life further costs as much as a new machine. People buying the old machines are severely limited in what they can commercially use them for until they get the inspections done.

I wonder why they did them more or less simultaneously rather than waiting a minute to evaluate the first one's collapse?