Rigging 101: secure the load

These guys skipped that step...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzS8BdKPjP8

Wow! What a spectacular demonstration of stupid.

I'd fire all of them, starting with the guy that set up the spreader bar.

Load's fine, spreader bar works, it wasn't the parking brake setting guy?

spreader bar may work.. but from the moment it went into the air, it was tilted forwards. you do not want an off centre load as this is what happens

914Driver wrote: Load's fine, spreader bar works, it wasn't the parking brake setting guy?

Mentioned in the comments - seems some purpose-built rally cars don't have parking brakes, although I suppose someone could have pulled the e-brake handle and wrapped a bungie around it to hold it on.

Even better would have been to properly strap the car down onto the lifting platform. Otherwise it's not much different than loading a car onto the back of a flatbed and just leaving it there.

mad_machine wrote: spreader bar may work.. but from the moment it went into the air, it was tilted forwards. you do not want an off centre load as this is what happens

This. The instant the load left the ground and wasn't level, it should have been set down and re-rigged.

A little google-fu suggests the car is a SEAT Leon from the Mexican Touring Car Championship. The current series leader is probably mighty pissed off about this.

I would have pictured a car named Leon to be gray or maybe beige.

Ian F wrote: Even better would have been to properly strap the car down onto the lifting platform. Otherwise it's not much different than loading a car onto the back of a flatbed and just leaving it there.

This was the main issue. Secure car to platform and it would have never happened.
Basic load training. I used to crew cargo helicopter and still work around it and loads.
Even if parking brake was set it could skid off the platform.

Aren't we lucky that dude was there to make sure nobody stepped into harm's way?

I thought this was going to involve those orange harbor freight ratchet straps I see littering the highways and byways.

wlkelley3, about a month ago I saw an Erickson cargo helicopter, what an interesting looking helicopter. I was thinking they might be heli-logging but hell if I know.

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This is what I used to do and now make sure those that still do have what they need to keep on doing this.

Insured?

Ouch. Seat Cupra Leon's are badass. Wish we were able to buy them north of the border. Always drool over them when I visit Mexico.

needs Benny Hill music... but the Benny Hillifier doesn't work for me...

A single solitary wheel chock would have worked. Idiots.

Most likely the lift had to be contracted out but a Pro team and no rep there to stop the lift, shame.

Check out the nice flat bottom on that thing!

motomoron wrote: A single solitary wheel chock would have worked. Idiots.

Nah, they would've placed the chock behind a rear wheel.

Keith Tanner wrote: Check out the nice flat bottom on that thing!

And the flat front!

good thing it has a roll cage

So do desk managers at SEAT lots remind their salesmen that there is "a SEAT for every ass!"?

Ian F wrote: These guys skipped that step... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzS8BdKPjP8

It's a rally car. (Not sure what a "rally race" car is, maybe that's a video game thing) A rally car that does not end its life crumpled into a ball has never lived.

maybe they hired one of the people from shipping wars to transport it

Not that it's any substitute for rigging it up properly, but if the car was left in 1st it wouldn't have rolled so easily.