Yeah, a boom truck, so the operator drove home at 70 mph instead of 45!
I was talking with a buddy the other day in a nearby western state, who has expanded his business recently from a single boom truck (a 26 ton National, BTC, but on a all wheel drive chassis, pretty cool) I see Manitex offers that 40 ton'r with a 142' stick now also. He now has a Manitex 40124, plus a 90 ton LinkBelt, and he was raving about how much it could do compared to any boom truck he's operated, BUT, at the end of the day 45 mph back to the barn, was tough to get used to after boom truck speeds. We all need one of each, just like airplanes, no one machine does it all. Every single time I call my 30 ton rider boom truck, a CRANE, which is almost always, I hope no one on this site hears about it, ha ha.
Tradesman: your load chart is about identical to mine. If all a guy did was set residential trusses 100% of the time, the Manitex 101S is hard to beat, I could and did set a lot of trusses out 95' with my old one, and I can't quite do that with the 30 ton National. I see why you had that 40 ton do the craning on your job, plus it's always fun to see how another operator gets it done.
I was talking with a buddy the other day in a nearby western state, who has expanded his business recently from a single boom truck (a 26 ton National, BTC, but on a all wheel drive chassis, pretty cool) I see Manitex offers that 40 ton'r with a 142' stick now also. He now has a Manitex 40124, plus a 90 ton LinkBelt, and he was raving about how much it could do compared to any boom truck he's operated, BUT, at the end of the day 45 mph back to the barn, was tough to get used to after boom truck speeds. We all need one of each, just like airplanes, no one machine does it all. Every single time I call my 30 ton rider boom truck, a CRANE, which is almost always, I hope no one on this site hears about it, ha ha.
Tradesman: your load chart is about identical to mine. If all a guy did was set residential trusses 100% of the time, the Manitex 101S is hard to beat, I could and did set a lot of trusses out 95' with my old one, and I can't quite do that with the 30 ton National. I see why you had that 40 ton do the craning on your job, plus it's always fun to see how another operator gets it done.