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Offline Nordic

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Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« on: November 18, 2004, 05:46:34 pm »
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How not to recover a car from a harbour.
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2004, 06:44:26 pm »
Looks like the site needs a Login  ???
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2004, 08:26:30 pm »
Thats a bummer, but put it this way.

Car falls into harbour - crane sent to hoist car out not set up right and follows car into harbour, bigger crane needed to hoist them both out, all captured on an amusing sequence of pictures

Needs the pictures really.

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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2004, 08:30:24 pm »
It let me view it!!

Pretty good shot of the first crane going in isn't it!!  :o
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2004, 09:12:22 pm »
Didn't work for me the first time, but OK now.

Also very amusing is the comments by other guys on the forum - I don't know what they are saying but

Damn.. Best erg dit.  

....seems to say it all!!!

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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2004, 09:18:12 pm »
Yup, I can see the pictures now.
Pretty inevitable really.  Notice the first crappy crane (really only the sort that delivers pallets of bricks to sites etc) has no side support legs out.
Also, the crane should have an overweight alarm / trip - no doubt bypassed to enable them to continue the lift.

No sympathy  ::)

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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2004, 12:20:30 am »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I have spent (wasted?) the last  26 years of my life working in car recovery in one form or another. Those picures just take the banana. Absolutely rock solid story of How Not To!

Looking at the number plates (wot my tired old eyes can't make out) I'd suggest that it might have been somewhere in Ireland. Not (Maybe sadly) in Germany as the last user on that site suggested.... The fact that lots of the vehicles pictured suggest a tax break available for van type motors over those with side windows, gives this theory some likelihood.

Well spotted Nordic, made my day.


Bill.

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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2004, 01:02:36 pm »
Can you post it I cant see it.
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2004, 10:21:13 pm »
Nothing to do with Skorpio, he's our resident recovery man !!

He's ben quiet for a while
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2004, 06:17:16 pm »
Quote from: Rick Cutler on November 19, 2004, 01:02:36 pm
Can you post it I cant see it.

Rick, email me or PM me your email address (I've lost it!!  :-[)

I've also got the pics in email format so can forward them to you!!
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2004, 07:08:44 pm »
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Re:Car + Harbour + rescue = opps
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2004, 08:50:30 pm »
Outstanding ;D ;D ;D
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