Things done at Work

[willie59]

1) been there. I don't know what the specs are on those wire insulators, but they sure seem to do the job.

2) good to see blue sky there and snow shoved off to the side (where it belongs).

3) even if it were only a pic with a push broom in your hand...good to see an update pic of "Things done at work" thread.

 

[Tiny]

good to see an update pic of "Things done at work" thread.

Amen Brother , But off for 3 weeks and this is the 1st boom truck job after getting back LOL

 

[Winch Cat]

Tiny,

You have my utmost respect for making this job happen. On two levels, both of which say a lot about your temperment and patience. Working around wires is nothing to take lightly. Working through a bureaucracy is frustrating as well. I am glad to see that you are picking and swinging again and look forward to seeing more of these jobs from you. For your sake I hope that they do not all have to be so close to wires, but I can completely understand taking a job on so that bills get paid.

 

[Tiny]

In the Belly of the Beast

Today I was neither Driver or a lever puller . I was rigging parts off and back on a car crusher . I do have pictures but none of me in a safety harness , I have been a little self conscious ever since I was told the harness looks like the strings on a rump roast .

Used a 150 ton grove hydro with 1 load of weights . Heavy load was suppose to be 30,000 lbs. but was some what lighter . There was a grate that had to come off then a few parts they called anvils .

The holes in the grate look to be 4 inches X 5 1/2 inches . When a car go's in , every piece of them will go thru a hole that size .

The anvils only weighed about 1,500 lbs but took almost 10,000 lbs. pull to get them to move . The finer bits and pieces of metal are driven in to every crack and groove wedging everything tight . No real place to grab them so the plant people weld lugs on them as needed .

 

[Tiny]

1st pic is of where the anvil piece's set . 2cd of my partner , not as much dirt on him LOL . 3rd is one of the shears on site . 4th and fifth are the grate going to the ground .

It's pretty dirty and stinky doing this . Everything that is in a junk car go's thru there .

 

[Tiny]

Last pic is of some of the junk yard iron . I was informed that this place " is not a junk yard it's a recycling center "

 

[02Dmax]

Is that at Advantage? Looks like some of their Leibherr iron.

 

[Tiny]

Is that at Advantage? Looks like some of their Leibherr iron.

Yes Sir . This was the plant on Manchester . Oldest son is at the plant on 12th st as I type this .

 

[02Dmax]

" is not a junk yard it's a recycling center " must be drilled into them because I was corrected on the same comment in the St. Joe yard. They have basically the same set of equipment up here, Volvo with a shear and Leibherr handlers. No tracked models though, all rubber tired.

 

[Tiny]

Had cranes in and out at a precast manufacture this week . Loading 108,000 lbs beams . They use travelifts to move and load stuff but they had a hook in a spreader beam break and dropped the beam . They had 2 travel lifts in tandem on the beam . When the hook failed on the one the beam hit the ground and broke the rigging on the second . So both were down for inspection .

The machine that had the spreader beam with the broken hook tossed the operator out of the seat and against the roof of the cab . Only bruises from what I was told . No one hurt other than that .


This is a random pic of a travelift so you see what I'm yakking about .



Pics of where the beam came to rest . Beam landed on some new iron .

 

[Tiny]

One last pic

 

[Tiny]

In My part of the country there are several underground quarry's that have played out and have been converted to underground storage or cold storage . The caves off of 210 and 435 highways here in Kansas City Houses the U.S. foreign trade zone .

The one I was at this week is in Bonner Spring ,Kansas . Big trucks were running in and out . I set a high pressure blower on the top of one of the loading docks . gentleman said they will move product from the freezer to be processed then blow it back to another part of the freezer .

 

[Tiny]

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[Tiny]

Spent a few overtime hrs moving a 248 Link Belt out of downtown Kansas city today for another company .

 

[heavylift]

I've hauled stuff from some of those underground storage places.
The strangest was frozen shrimp, It was $250,000.00 in 1977. It wasn't few much either weight wise, 2 layers of boxes that covered the entire trailer. The 2 layers of boxes were barely 1 foot in height.
It was caught in the Gulf of Mexico, frozen. Shipped to be stored in Kansas City. I picked it up in KC. I then drove to the City of Industry CA, where it was loaded onto a refrigerated container headed for Japan.

 

[dbl612]

I've hauled stuff from some of those underground storage places.
The strangest was frozen shrimp, It was $250,000.00 in 1977. It wasn't few much either weight wise, 2 layers of boxes that covered the entire trailer. The 2 layers of boxes were barely 1 foot in height.
It was caught in the Gulf of Mexico, frozen. Shipped to be stored in Kansas City. I picked it up in KC. I then drove to the City of Industry CA, where it was loaded onto a refrigerated container headed for Japan.

makes you wonder what that load of shrimp is worth by the time it gets to japan when you figure in handling, transportation, and profit.

 

[Tiny]

More bridge beams , 108th and 169 highway in Gladstone . It will put 108th over 169 . This does away with a stop light in a 60 mph zone . Grove 5150 up on the abutment (150 ton) and an AC 180 (200 ton) down on the highway .

Traffic had to be kept open in one lane until the beam was set .

 

[Tiny]

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[Tiny]

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[willie59]

That's some good crane operating. And if they did it with minimal time of road shutdown, damn good operating.