Just some work pics

[Junkyard]

Watched a video at a safety meeting a few years back of a guy changing the aircraft warning bulb on the top of one of those towers. I almost got sick just sitting in my chair from the height.

Junkyard the fall might be just a fatal from 30 to 40 feet but you would have a lot longer time to think about it on the way down!

Exactly. I wonder if there's time to bend over and kiss your a$$ goodbye on the way down!

 

[DARO]

I was working up 60 feet when you drop somthing you can count to 3 before it would hit the ground. A few hunderd feet would give you lots of time to scream...

Exactly. I wonder if there's time to bend over and kiss your a$$ goodbye on the way down!

 

[hvy 1ton]

Watched a video at a safety meeting a few years back of a guy changing the aircraft warning bulb on the top of one of those towers. I almost got sick just sitting in my chair from the height.

Junkyard the fall might be just a fatal from 30 to 40 feet but you would have a lot longer time to think about it on the way down!

Was this video you watched ksh? My hands start sweating every time i watch it. Well, my hands are always sweating, it just intensifies. I'm good to about 50', after that i have too much time to think about the fall.

 

[crane operator]

Prepare to be shocked.

I spent Saturday at a concrete plant, setting a new bag house on top of their cement and fly ash silos. They weren't really ready, so I flew up the welder, torch and weld on ring.

They had sent out two loads of concrete that morning that got returned (someone got their wires crossed at the jobsite).

I know the plant guy, I helped build the plant a couple years ago, he hopped on his backhoe and scratched out a 4" deep driveway.

I helped set forms and then got to relive a misspent youth:

 

[crane operator]

That's right-concrete splatter on the boots and hardhat- just like someone that works for a living.

like the old timers say "finish school or finish concrete!"

I actually did both many years ago.

The welder and his helper were laughing at me when they came down, said they had never seen a crane operator sweat.

I was kind of wishing I had my mud boots, but I have pretty long arms, so I just ran the chute and the rake, then did a little hand troweling around the pipes and edges.

Its funny how something you used to do all the time, is kind of fun to go back and do 20 years later. But a guy that does it all the time, doesn't think its fun at all...

I should have brought my little R mack- it would have fit right in with their lineup.

 

[Tradesman]

That's right-concrete splatter on the boots and hardhat- just like someone that works for a living.

like the old timers say "finish school or finish concrete!"

I actually did both many years ago.

The welder and his helper were laughing at me when they came down, said they had never seen a crane operator sweat.

I was kind of wishing I had my mud boots, but I have pretty long arms, so I just ran the chute and the rake, then did a little hand troweling around the pipes and edges.

Its funny how something you used to do all the time, is kind of fun to go back and do 20 years later. But a guy that does it all the time, doesn't think its fun at all...

I should have brought my little R mack- it would have fit right in with their lineup.

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I love pouring concrete, the guys that work for me say they figure that I get a little too excited when I see a ready mix truck roll in ( in kinda a sick way)

 

[kenh]

I break out with a rash just thinking about working with that stuff!

 

[Knepptune]

I break out with a rash just thinking about working with that stuff!

And my back starts hurting.

 

[Knepptune]

That national gonna be paying for itself soon.

I'll bet your gonna love that 95' boom. I don't remember but how does that national chart compare to the 25t. Pretty similar unless your over 10k?

 

[crane operator]

I haven't had the national to a job yet. Every time I fix something, something else is wrong.

Won't build air right now. The governor was stuck when I brought it home, we replaced the governor, and two days later, now it will only build air to 60 psi and that's it. It was working right after we replaced the governor (we also did unloader valves, compressor head gasket). I've got a lot of oil in the air dryer, and with all the moisture in it, it looked like pudding in there. I imagine I've scored one piston.

I think I'm going to have to reseal the hyd pump also, it leaks at the input. Still need to do fenders and ladders, governor on the injector pump, and I need to fix the exhaust right behind the turbo its cracked and leaking. Also have a outrigger leaking on retract.

Did just get my new steer rims for it today, hopefully with them mounted, I'll be able to turn.

I'll keep whittling away at issues, eventually I'll get it sorted out.

 

[crane operator]

Trusses today on a resort building. Notice no one working near the crane.....Its like a detroit defense zone..

 

[crane operator]

They just have the pan deck and iron set for the other half, they will dry in this half for the subs (plumbing wiring hvac) then frame the other half. It will look just like the last one they built a year ago.

 

[crane operator]

This job does have a pretty good hill in and out of it also, took this as I was leaving the job, you can see the culvert tunnel for the railroad tracks in the distance, and the roofline of the gate house will give you a idea of the hill.

 

[hosspuller]

From the pic... Looks like you take your half of the road from the middle

 

[crane operator]

From the pic... Looks like you take your half of the road from the middle

Yep- that's a really steep hill, the road I came out of t's into this road, so I just came around the corner. I'm in 3rd gear there headed down, the gate on the left is the one I'm headed for, the real exit gate is to the right and I don't fit too well into it. I want anyone headed up to get the idea to stay out of the way, they usually sit at the bottom in the entrance until I'm through.....

lanes? lanes? we don't need no stinkin' lanes....

 

[Natman]

My National has no access ladders built in, and I like it that way. I do have a 6' ladder scrap (half of a bent 12' cheap extension ladder) that i just throw up on the bed for transport, then when setting up I put it where needed. That is the key, depending on the job, a built in ladder can, WILL, be on the "wrong side", where as I just put it where needed. Simple and cheap also. Just be aware, when you let down the outriggers at the end of the job, make sure the ladder can't jam up against the bottom of the operator cab, it's really hard on the ladr, been there done that! I have a steady supply of ladder scraps, keep your eyes open they are just laying around, people don't know what to do with a half bent ladder, now they give them to me.

 

[lumberjack]

This is what I have on my crane to access the deck. Works well, I like it better than a non mounted ladder (ladder leaning against the deck or freestanding).

I keep a 13' and 22' folding/multipurpose ladder on the deck for job access.

http://www.uniquetruck.com/product/...MI8q2MuoWC1gIV2ouzCh22_AQxEAQYAyABEgKt3_D_BwE

 

[crane operator]

Oh yes, set under the power lines and scope out, grab the unit and retract, I can do that and fit in there.....

I took the ball and scale off to gain a few extra inches on boom head height.

 

[crane operator]

Oh- I can fit in there too, shed, wall, trees, chain link fence, no problem....

I'll just tuck the corner of the outrigger pad under the shed, and remember to retract my beam before lifting the pad all the way up, so I don't destroy the shed.

 

[crane operator]