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The Frannas – a 20t and 25t with Superlift – were despatched to a property Bundamba. The crews said it was hard to comprehend the levels of devastation.
LINDORES FRANNAS IN FLOOD CLEAN UP Following the devasting floods in early March, Crane Industry Council of Australia member Lindores Mobile Cranes despatched Frannas and crew to help with the clean up process. CHANTELLE LINDORES, MANAGING director of Lindores Mobile Cranes takes up the story. “The first lift was in Bundamba, a suburb of Ipswich, which was absolutely decimated in the floods. I volunteered to help with our Frannas after a call out from the Ipswich Mud Army, which helped mobilise hundreds of volunteers during the clean up process “The Frannas, a 20t and 25t with Superlift, were despatched to a property called High Tides in Cornish Street, Bundamba. When they got to site, the crews said it was hard to comprehend the levels of devastation. The smell was revolting, there was debris everywhere, the place was an absolute mess. 18 / CAL May/June 2022
“The owner had lost everything including his 4WD business, which had been washed down to the back of his property. Before the flooding, they were told it wouldn’t be worse than the 2013 floods. They took everything out of the house for those floods, having been totally devastated and losing everything in the 2011 floods. So they moved everything in 2013 in fear of being flooded but it didn’t get to the house. On the advice they were given, they thought they were OK this time and left everything in the house, absolutely everything,” said Lindores. The Frannas conducted a dual lift on a Panelfab site shed that had been washed up and was leaning against the
house. The owners had been using the shed as a pottery barn to conduct pottery classes in. “It needed to be a dual lift because the site shed was completely sodden and unstable, and we had concerns it could shift during the lift, causing more damage to the house or to the shed itself. The owners had lost just about everything and the little they could retrieve was left outside the house to dry out and these possessions were stolen by looters over a few nights. After putting the shed back into place what you don’t see is the effort these people need to go to, to rebuild their lives. It is so, so sad,” said Lindores. She volunteered to help these people www.cranesandlifting.com.au
