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No
Bungee Jumping from Mobiles
A
couple of times every year the question of bungee jumping from
mobile cranes is raised.
Is
it allowed or not?
All participants
at the 2009 International Crane Conference in Paris and again
at the Septemeber 2010 International Crane Alliance meeting in
San Diego, USA with participation from AEM, CICA, FEM, SC&RA,
and ESTA, repeated the answer that bungee jumping from mobile
cranes was, is and remains a NO!
It should also
be noted that most, if not all, crane manufacturers around the
World mention this explicitly in their crane operation manuals.
Cranes are not designed for recreational activities such as bungee
jumping or "Dinner in the Sky" activities. They should
only be used according to the manufacturers' instructions as
outlined in their manuals.
Source: International
Cranes and Specialized Transport / October2010
Mini excavator
endurance record
Finnish service
engineer Jukka Mutanen is due to enter the Guinness book of World
Records following a mammoth drive across Finland in a mini excavator.
Starting from Hanko in southwestern Finland on 1 June, he reached
Kuusamo in the north east of the country on 29 June. Mr Mutanen
made the 942 km journey in a Sunward SWE17B mini excavator, driving
at its 4 km/h travel speed. This clinched him the world record
for “Personal continuous furthest driving
with a mini excavator.”
He was greeted at the finishing line by a crowd of some 3,000
Kuusamo residents, along with dignitaries including Finnish Member
of Parliament Tuomo Hanninen, president of the Kuusamo district
committee Matti Heikkile and president of Sunward, He Quinhua,
who made a special journey from the company’s headquarters
in Changsha, China, to congratulate Mr Mutanen. Sunward and its
Finnish distributor CE Rental Oy sponsored the record attempt.
Commenting on the vehicle for his month-long endurance drive
before the start of the event, Mr Mutanen said, “It’s
a lovely ‘guy’, reliable and flexible, stable and comfortable.”
Indeed, the SWE17B completed the journey without any mishaps
or mechanical problems.
Source: Demolition
and Recycling International / October 2010
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