crane operator
Senior Member
It has to be power both ways because it has a holding valve in it (I think) keeping the doors shut while loading and flying it. If it wasn't power down, you wouldn't get past the holding valve to dump it.
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Just some work pics
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colson04
Senior Member
ahh, I understand that. If my pump ever goes on the trailer, I'm just going to replace it with a power up/gravity down. It would work just fine like a regular dump truck if it was gravity down in my application.
mitch504
Senior Member
Yeah, lately all the little stuff I have been seeing, (p'up pulled trailers, and f350 sized dumptrucks), have been power down. Why?! Do they really think congress is going to repeal the law of gravity anytime soon?
Welder Dave
Senior Member
They'll find a way to tax it.
DMiller
Senior Member
Old scissors lift on my Grain wagon is a 'Semi' power down, can aid it but seals do not support pressure down, the added Cylinder fluid volume is for smaller reservoir size.
DARO
Well-Known Member
If the bed has to much sticking past the hinge point( small dump trailer) if it has no oil on the top of the cyl. The front of the bed will rasie up as fast as the load is falling once the back of the box becomes the heavy side of the lever. Think backing a wheeled skidsteer out of the trailer.
Comical..... but could make a mess.
Comical..... but could make a mess.
crane operator
Senior Member
Trash box is done. Had to adjust one door that wouldn't shut, it had been repaired before, and rewelded on crooked.
One of the guys got that done and a lid built so the battery and pump doesn't get covered with debris.
The box hangs about 2" low on the pump side, close enough to level that I'm not counterweighting it. I bet we opened and shut the doors 40 times on it, and the batteries were still good. I don't know how many cycles we will get.
Battery charger has the alligator clamps removed, is wired right to batteries and bolted to the box, otherwise I'll be tempted to steal it out.
One of the guys got that done and a lid built so the battery and pump doesn't get covered with debris.
The box hangs about 2" low on the pump side, close enough to level that I'm not counterweighting it. I bet we opened and shut the doors 40 times on it, and the batteries were still good. I don't know how many cycles we will get.
Battery charger has the alligator clamps removed, is wired right to batteries and bolted to the box, otherwise I'll be tempted to steal it out.
crane operator
Senior Member
New scale at the transfer station. You can see the other one I set a year or two behind this one. Now they will have separate scales for incoming and outgoing.
Trusses on the bathrooms that I set the timber trusses on a few weeks ago.
Trusses on the bathrooms that I set the timber trusses on a few weeks ago.
crane operator
Senior Member
Loading out the old concrete plant we took down a while back.
crane operator
Senior Member
crane operator
Senior Member
House trusses. Cribbing stacks are like big boy Jenga....
crane operator
Senior Member
Roofing materials at a hospital. Its about a three hour drive away, and we've got to go back like 4 more times.
They had the worst looking cable set up on the porta john to fly onto the roof. The little pulleys were just bolted to the plastic wall, and the bottom was all busted up from the walls. I think it might have been okay empty, but I don't think I would have flown it anywhere full. I rigged the bottom of it instead.
Funny thing- all the roofing materials had to get unloaded in a different lot, the semi drivers couldn't get in the lot by the crane. Which we all discussed, while we were standing by the 100 ton in boom dolly, beside the peterbilt with the counterweights on the trailer. Yep- no way they can get semi's in here.
So we got to wait everytime they went over to the other lot, to reload the materials onto a gooseneck trailer behind a pickup....
They had the worst looking cable set up on the porta john to fly onto the roof. The little pulleys were just bolted to the plastic wall, and the bottom was all busted up from the walls. I think it might have been okay empty, but I don't think I would have flown it anywhere full. I rigged the bottom of it instead.
Funny thing- all the roofing materials had to get unloaded in a different lot, the semi drivers couldn't get in the lot by the crane. Which we all discussed, while we were standing by the 100 ton in boom dolly, beside the peterbilt with the counterweights on the trailer. Yep- no way they can get semi's in here.
So we got to wait everytime they went over to the other lot, to reload the materials onto a gooseneck trailer behind a pickup....
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crane operator
Senior Member
30' away and 1200lbs in a church asphalt parking lot, that was dead flat. They don't get easier than that.
Second and last picture is one I didn't get done. Its the bottom of the concrete plant we've been loading out, and we couldn't get it picked up. Had a lot of material left in it. We gave up that day, and they removed a bunch of material. We quit at 60,000, and didn't have it picked up.
Second and last picture is one I didn't get done. Its the bottom of the concrete plant we've been loading out, and we couldn't get it picked up. Had a lot of material left in it. We gave up that day, and they removed a bunch of material. We quit at 60,000, and didn't have it picked up.
crane operator
Senior Member
Some tires on the boom dolly. Had to carry it up from the back yard with the RT, so I just used it as a jack also. I'm liking the blue bar tire removing tool. It kinda has its own quirks, but its great on those lo profile tires.
crane operator
Senior Member
Not good when you drive into the yard and the cranes are all huddled up. They're supposed to be out working.
Welder Dave
Senior Member
It could be worse... they could all be waiting on repairs. You've already had enough repairs to last a lifetime.
DMiller
Senior Member
No doubt!
Weather should break in a few weeks and good old summer be back for long days in a greenhouse cab!!
Weather should break in a few weeks and good old summer be back for long days in a greenhouse cab!!
crane operator
Senior Member
Got the bottom of the concrete plant loaded up, after they removed all the excess material. Also note the 70 ton on a jobsite- engine back in and running.
We used the 70 and 100 ton to load it because of where it was sitting and access. Just took the 40 ton and 70 ton to offload it, we could sit right next to it, and its easier to move the 40 than the 100 ton.
We used the 70 and 100 ton to load it because of where it was sitting and access. Just took the 40 ton and 70 ton to offload it, we could sit right next to it, and its easier to move the 40 than the 100 ton.
crane operator
Senior Member
Had a interesting truck driver for the move, where we had to unload was up a hill at a quarry site. Of course "I've driven for years- I know how to get up there!"
Supertrucker proceeds to try speed shifting down in the flat- to "get a run for it". Of course he starts hopping in 3rd on the way up the hill. He manages to back it back down. And instead of just dropping it in low, and staying steady, gives a repeat performance of full throttle speed run, and ruins a axle or 3rd member when it starts hopping again and he stays on the throttle.
We sit around for 3 hours, waiting on the towing service to bring him another truck, swap trailer, and he does the same thing. I figured we were going to watch another axle get it, but by a miracle- he made it up the hill.
Of course, then we got to unload in the fading daylight, with it raining, and had to leave the cranes there because it was too dark to bring them home. If the driver was the one having to change the axle out- I think he'd learn how to drive. Then again, he didn't seem the learning type.
The quarry / concrete boys were kinda mad, they're on the hook for the crane time, because the driver wouldn't just stick it in low, and let it walk at 3/4 throttle. We had a loader and excavator if we needed to pull him up. We got to stand up at the top of the hill and watch the whole show.
Supertrucker proceeds to try speed shifting down in the flat- to "get a run for it". Of course he starts hopping in 3rd on the way up the hill. He manages to back it back down. And instead of just dropping it in low, and staying steady, gives a repeat performance of full throttle speed run, and ruins a axle or 3rd member when it starts hopping again and he stays on the throttle.
We sit around for 3 hours, waiting on the towing service to bring him another truck, swap trailer, and he does the same thing. I figured we were going to watch another axle get it, but by a miracle- he made it up the hill.
Of course, then we got to unload in the fading daylight, with it raining, and had to leave the cranes there because it was too dark to bring them home. If the driver was the one having to change the axle out- I think he'd learn how to drive. Then again, he didn't seem the learning type.
The quarry / concrete boys were kinda mad, they're on the hook for the crane time, because the driver wouldn't just stick it in low, and let it walk at 3/4 throttle. We had a loader and excavator if we needed to pull him up. We got to stand up at the top of the hill and watch the whole show.
crane operator
Senior Member
Show up to set some steel beams over a indoor pool. No room, dumpster and all the wood piles in the way. And the beams setting out in the cul-de sac.
Set up once, all the wood out, move the dumpster, swing/ skip the beams around to get them close. Move the crane, all the wood out again, and set the beams.
38' beams, 3800lbs
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Set up once, all the wood out, move the dumpster, swing/ skip the beams around to get them close. Move the crane, all the wood out again, and set the beams.
38' beams, 3800lbs
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