It looks to me like the rest of the Whippin'Willie avatar of NETree's fame.
Around here, the first thing the crane operator does is have signatures that nothing is there fault. No cracked driveway, house or anything. We've sunk pads deeper than we shoulda, front ones deeper than back, not good!!
i really don't know why a crane was needed on this job, unless crane there for other work, or some other tree unseen.
i can see a crane operator might be better at figuring steel loading /balance; tree becoming a slippery specialty to them(ones i've worked with have been familiar with trees). But that is a lot of stick, for not very much wood; it seems it really didn't have a chance, so that might be more setup/crane operator(?) should have turned down job. 1 local small biz owner comes out and looks at each job before sending a crane out; most don't. But if crane failure came from ground failure, incorrect- no pad outriggers, not enough counter ballast, or just wayyyyyyy to low an angle to do realistic work, allow operator to work blind etc.; i think the crane operator should especially be focussed on.
i think the climber too should have insisted on eye contact or a 3rd radio man on ground that had an art going with the crane operator. If climber overloaded from impact or huge piece, s/he might carry focus fairly.
Around here, the first thing the crane operator does is have signatures that nothing is there fault. No cracked driveway, house or anything. We've sunk pads deeper than we shoulda, front ones deeper than back, not good!!
i really don't know why a crane was needed on this job, unless crane there for other work, or some other tree unseen.
i can see a crane operator might be better at figuring steel loading /balance; tree becoming a slippery specialty to them(ones i've worked with have been familiar with trees). But that is a lot of stick, for not very much wood; it seems it really didn't have a chance, so that might be more setup/crane operator(?) should have turned down job. 1 local small biz owner comes out and looks at each job before sending a crane out; most don't. But if crane failure came from ground failure, incorrect- no pad outriggers, not enough counter ballast, or just wayyyyyyy to low an angle to do realistic work, allow operator to work blind etc.; i think the crane operator should especially be focussed on.
i think the climber too should have insisted on eye contact or a 3rd radio man on ground that had an art going with the crane operator. If climber overloaded from impact or huge piece, s/he might carry focus fairly.
