Things done at Work

[td25c]

Cool pictures Tiny & thanks for sharing them. I'm guessing the old Ford had the 534 gas engine in it?

 

[mitch504]

My first tractor trailer looked just like that, except it seems like the hood scoop was a little taller, maybe not. It had the 534 in it, I forget just how many gallons per mile it got. I finally talked my father who owned half the company into agreeing to buy a 1980 R-model w/ an ENDT 676 in it. We paid for the truck in a few months w/ the fuel savings.

 

[FSERVICE]

great pics Tiny!! Makes you relies what you can do if you think about it first thanks for posting the older pics I enjoy seeing how things got done without all the "nessecties" that we think we have to have now!!

 

[Tiny]

That truck had a 534 gas engine . 5 speed main box and a 4 speed aux

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

That truck had a 534 gas engine . 5 speed main box and a 4 speed aux

Thanks Tiny, that's interesting, in my experience any way such things never existed over here.

Cheers.

 

[DigDug]

Thanks for all the pics , very interesting. Just found this thread last night , thanks for sharing. I have a old cable crane to play with at shop and this documentary of your work is a education for me.

 

[Tiny]

Old school way to make a bigger crane

Found this pic in some old photos and being as the company is gone I will show you what they did in 1965 when they needed a bigger crane

 

[mitch504]

This one confuses me, I just see 2 cranes?

I'm really enjoying all these old pics,
Mitch

 

[Tiny]

You don't see the Extra counterweight made of concrete ?

 

[mitch504]

Oh, heck, I thought all the old cranes came with that feature. My brother in law (75 y/o) has 2 22Bs and a 15B, they all have steel boxes filled w/ steel mill slag on the counterweights.

 

[Tiny]

Few years back we did a major yard clean and deep in the back there were still 4 weight box's / concrete cheaters . Boss wanted those off the place before sundown .Guess he didn't know they were there.

 

[grandpa]

Oh, heck, I thought all the old cranes came with that feature. My brother in law (75 y/o) has 2 22Bs and a 15B, they all have steel boxes filled w/ steel mill slag on the counterweights.

Tell you brother in law he needs two 15b's..... I'll sell him mine, you come get it.

 

[mitch504]

He'd probably want to sell you one of his 22Bs, he says he's retired, he hardly ever works more than 60 hrs a week these days.

 

[Tiny]

I don't think I posted anything about this job . Got a call from an outfit about removing part of a condemned structure on a building downtown . That building was the AT&T building and the structure was the old microwave antennas and the towers that held them on the roof .

Company used the biggest rig they had , M 250 , 300 ton crawler And 510 feet of boom . 190 ft main .. 200 ft of luffing jib ... 120 feet of fixed jib . I think that is the Max on boom length . It did work out that just one light wire that run a single street light was all that needed taken down ( A real surprise for downtown )

Also with the spot the crane was put on it had us laying out boom to the south and right across a bridge over I 70 . Nothing really wrong with that , just odd . It took 5 more days than were planned but a 20 MPH wind would put the crane out of service and the boom had to come to the ground .

 

[Tiny]

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[Tiny]

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[willie59]

Helluva luffing boom setup.

 

[Tiny]

I believe that's the Max boom for that machine .

 

[mitch504]

I sure wouldn't want to run it, much less in that tight hole.

 

[willie59]

I believe that's the Max boom for that machine .

If not, prolly no more than 10 ft shy.