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Recent content by GrainBinMan

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    Man Basket for a Stinger R.O crane

    Makes sense, I didn't think of having two drums.
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    Man Basket for a Stinger R.O crane

    Ok, so how do go from having that fellow in a chair to having straps attached to your crane and no man in the air? If I'm understanding what you're doing, you put a fellow up there to put the straps at the right place to lift the pipe. But what did you do with the top end of the straps while...
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    Impact's "Things Done at Work"

    I heard some speculation that the reason the tank at Bunge failed was because they had put a skid loader door in the side just last year.
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    Just some work pics

    There was two young men killed near here on Monday when a big flotation tire on a manure spreader blew up on them. I don't know if a cage would have saved them, because the blast of air is what threw them...
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    Remove roof, save building

    Same here. I can never seem to get my money back anytime I try to buy used and either resell it, or put it to use for myself. My understanding from the building owner, was he just wanted someone to demo it. If I wanted the steel, I could make an offer.
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    Remove roof, save building

    I like the looks of that project. The beams and posts look similar to the building we are working on. I don't have any of the heavy equipment that you do, so I would have to hire that part done by somebody else. And there are plenty of fellows around here that would be glad to do it.
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    Remove roof, save building

    No. Government.
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    Remove roof, save building

    That's an idea. I'll have to see if the owner would be open to that. The original plan was to save the trusses, but he didn't like the estimate I gave him for finishing the job, the way we started.
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    Remove roof, save building

    The original owner's name starts with a 'G'. The track is 2" wide and 2" tall.
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    Remove roof, save building

    More pictures
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    Remove roof, save building

    How would you go about taking this roof off and saving the steel structure? The concrete block walls will be taken down, but the building owner would like to save the I-beams, joists and columns. I'm not 100% sure how it was originally installed. But there is a joist every 5'. Every 33" along...
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    Accounting for Warranty Work

    We use the Enterprise version of Quickbooks 14.0. If we have a warranty deal, we make up an invoice to the customer, just like always. That does two things. It takes your parts out of inventory, and keeps that straight. The second thing is the customer can see what this would have cost them if...
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    Finally learned how to post pics.

    Got a stupid question: how could they come back on you? So they don't say you damaged it when setting it back up? Just trying to learn as much as possible. Thanks.
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    Demoing a cement tank

    We have an opportunity to bid on taking down a hopper tank that held cement for a precast plant. The tank hasn't been used for a number of years, but is nearly full of product. It definitely is hard on the top, but it may be still in powder form below a crust. I know dust can be explosive. How...
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    Just some work pics

    I'm guessing that concrete silo wasn't empty? How much did it weigh? You weren't worried about the lifting brackets at the top giving way?
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