On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:01:14 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:31:34 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:04:03 -0500, Ignoramus22088
wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ako5guyzNg

He was standing so close, it's a wonder it didn't eat him on the way
down. Lucky man. What a bummer! Good thing you replaced the cable
on your crane, huh? Well worth the price and aggravation/time.

Could see it coming though, he was taking load off the little chain
falls, the drill wasn't moving, so SOMETHING was taking the extra load
- it ended up being the overloaded and deteriorated crane cable - - -

I was watching the spare hoist chains moving and another sling
shifting but not yet touching, so I thought it was OK until BAM!
It hit the floor. Hearing him lament that "it was such an angle"
means that he knew that extra stress was on the device and that it
might happen. That's what happens when you don't listen to the little
voice inside telling you to be careful or to do something. I think
it's the Anti-Murphy Angel, if not your intuition.

--
A good plan violently executed now is better
than a perfect plan executed next week.
--Gen George S. Patton, Jr.