Roadside car-scrapping crane - GIF

[Jon]

Roadside car-scrapping crane. I guess this is how cars are picked up in this area, when they are to be scrapped?




Previously:

VRS car dismantler - GIF and video
Trash collection crane boat in Venice - GIF
Scrap built crane in Dominican Republic - video

[mklotz]

I guess this is how cars are picked up in this area, when they are to be scrapped?

Either that or they're overly serious about parking violations. :-)

[Frank S]

Either that or they're overly serious about parking violations. :-)

you beat me to it LOL

[Ricklesss]

Looks like a nice enough car, too..better looking then mine!
What if they grab the wrong car...?

[Haroun]

Could be the repo man

[desbromilow]

or the operator is ticked at his ex

[KustomsbyKent]

The articulation on that crane is interesting.... see how it over centers and flips out? I haven't seen a knuckleboom crane have that type of articulation when it folds before. There must be a secondary cylinder to help it overcenter and fold back up?

[Beserkleyboy]

Kent, I thought that as well. We usually see (a lot of) Palfinger and others used as unloading palletised loads or long timber and truss loads. They always unfold in 3 sections, but never up and out like that. A search for Epsilon came up with they being connected with Palfinger, and this sort of crane is in their 'recycling and recovery' category...and to think that when I emigrated to AUS in 87 and scored an asst mgr job at a Sydney 10 store home centre chain (before the big boxes here), and tried to convert them to using rollers on flat beds to deliver strapped units of timber to deaf ears...'mate, we just bar it off...' was the response...meaning, they built the packs taller than wide and used a 6' bar to lever the pack to the edge of the tray, and...bar it off...with resultant damage a shrug of the shoulders...she'll be right, mate...cheers
Jim in a perfect Sth Coast new Autumn day...