Anyone here want to take bets on if NYFD would allow a crane to lift a barrel of diesel at 55 Wall?
replyFor once , the name fits lol
I'm surprised they didn't put a window washing crane on the roof as DR to simplify the raising of the diesel.
replyIf there was electricity to run the window washing crane, they wouldn't need to haul diesel.
If they are hauling diesel it’s to run a generator, a winch is nothing to a data center load.
replyNone of us felt comfortable operating the crane or MacGyvering it to lift a barrel of diesel into the sky, and the building staff that could've done so was focused on bailing out the basement. It was something we talked about though :-)
replyThat's fair, Rigging a barrel is a trick. It's actually pretty neat to watch an experienced rigger belt strap some oddly shaped item.
replyYou can do a barrel knot, though with a modern metal barrel, you can also generally just do a hook on top an bottom and lift horizontally.
My comment was more about the goofy shit people do to make the failure mode simpler next time instead of eliminating the failure mode all together. Some of the places I've worked would probably have made one of us get trained on the lift or something instead of make sure we have the fittings on had or a fuel pump and hoses with 17 floors of head pressure. That would be the temporary fix and then when they got the quote for the pump it would become the fix.