DMiller
Senior Member
Guys like this give a black eye to all the true talented operators out there
Sad to say he is becoming the typical
Sad to say he is becoming the typical
Finally working the well known bugs out.
They going to build the building around it? (The wheel lathe)
That's some beautiful country Tuger a few years ago Mrs. Tradesman and I took a two day train ride through the mountains, then I went horse back riding with an old rodeo guy ( no city folks welcome ) I saw moose, bear, elk and some of the prettiest country I've ever seen. The train ride was nice but being out in the mountains and touching it like you do every day was fantastic. I live in the middle of the great lakes and have some nice scenery but nothing like the mountains in BC. and Alberta, I hope to get back before too long and go hunting with a horse pack in outfit.Heres the next crane for you when the Liebherr gets too small ,as they always seem to. This was a 270 ton they brought in to set our girders. 2 nice new b trains all decked out with pockets for the counterweights and pads, It was rigged as a 200 ton for this job. The quick rig block had a permanent knob instead of a becket and all nylon sheaves.
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Had the same thing happen up here last week. I thought it was on Wednesday, but it's been a long week and the days have been running together.This storm actually rolled in from the north east and was traveling south west, which is a super rare weather pattern here.
100 ton top plate is balanced wrong, it is made to use to install aux. winch, and if you don't have aux, it has little weights that go on it. I don't have weights, and the winch is mounted, and its a pain to set it on there hanging crooked. I have enough troubles, I try to make things easy.
I welded on a d-ring that doesn't hit the upper when the weight is mounted, and now it hangs straight with a third line. I've got a cable choker and hook the same length as the chain come along that we use for that plate, works great.
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The liebherr is that way. The aux cable has been cut off, so I'm trying to decide between the crosby epoxy spelter to replace it, or standard becket. Becket would be easy, except liebherr uses 17mm cable. crosby beckets run 9/16 and 5/8" and then skip to 3/4". There's a wedge from a 5/8 in the sidebox, but no becket, but the people I bought it from never used the aux. Never even had it mounted. I have done the epoxy spelter, but it was a lot of years ago, not on my crane.The quick rig block had a permanent knob instead of a becket and all nylon sheaves.
That must have took some serious preheat to weld the D-ring on
The Liebherr seems to be earning it keep already.
2 nice new b trains all decked out with pockets for the counterweights and pads,