Powerful force removes poles safely

摘要

The ground shook as 28,000 kg of lifting force was applied to a corner pole in Tweed Heads, NSW, raising it from the ground. For EnergyAustralia senior crane borer operator, Garry Coppin it felt like an earthquake as he watched the pole and two breast logs, each approximately 1200 mm long, ripped out."In my whole 30 years of using a crane borer I have never been able to remove a pole with breast logs and always had to cut them off below ground level," Mr Coppin said.