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Recent content by John Griffin

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    Looking for info on beam to beam connections with trolley

    Now if you want to assemble one, you could use a truck kit from Dayton or someone similar. Unlike what you are talking about doing with the trolleys, this is designed with the racking they see in actual use. A jib crane or two might work for what you need to do and keep most of your floor...
  2. J

    Looking for info on beam to beam connections with trolley

    I'm not trying to be mean, but if you have to ask this you have no business making a shop crane. Theres multiple crane companies such as gorbel that will do custom spans.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Yeah I'm not happy about it. The gmk ended up down for almost 3 months over the sensor. The sensor was replaced by grove about a year ago. Our local grove dealer has some problems. It took them a month to dispatch a tech to look at my broken down crane.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    It didnt take long for us to put it to work. I have apparently been slacking on posting pictures. All loaded up with 25500 lbs of counterweights. It really wouldnt hurt my feelings to have more at times. We had to really stretch out the crane to pick the broken half of this cherry tree. It...
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Got my new work truck by the scales. We plan to use this to haul a fuel tank for filling up the cranes, counterweights, and extra cribbing. Plenty of capacity for hauling 8800 lbs of counterweights. It's a 25999 gvwr truck. Itll be handy for hauling crew back on multi day jobs.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Started snowing monday morning and didnt stop for a couple of days. Had to go rescue a friend of mine tha thg had trouble with his obs truck. Many years we dont see snow here. I think I remember two times in my life it has stayed around more than a week before this. I'm 40.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    The last pic is of another oak tree that slammed into a house. It was the last one before the snowstorm. Packed the crane in at 4 and headed back to the lot.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    We had a bunch of storms roll through here a little while back. Spent 6 solid days craning trees off houses. Started tuesday morning and got wrapped up just in time sunday afternoon. Monday morning we had a snow and ice storm move in. We had snow and ice on the ground for a bit over a week. I...
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Used the rt crane at our lot to unload those oak logs so we can take them to the mill on a rain day.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    We had to pack up the gmk and go get the tms300 to finish the job. The pressure transducer for the boom shorted out and took down all the sensors on the can bus. This is why we keep the old crane as a back up. We ended up with a couple of nice oak logs we took to the sawmill.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Took 5 trees down in an area with no room thg o drop them. This day 1. We had a problem with the gmk lmi at the end of the day.
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    Trees, Trees, and More Trees

    Took a dead tree out of a tight spit in a back yard. The gmk would barely fit around back of the house.
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    Just some work pics

    Yeah we have some possibly of buying a larger excavator in the future that would take a lowboy to move. We might buy a 50 ton rt crane one day so I should probably go with a triple axle lowboy. I dont want to have to buy another lowboy later. I see us moving this to 3 to 6 jobs a year. If we...
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    Just some work pics

    I've been doing some checking. 100k annual os/ow permit here is $100 annually. I will have to have one since this crane is 8ft 8 in. 8 ft 6 in is out max here without permit. 88k lbs gvw is our limit here on state roads. With the permit, I'm allowed 22k per axle. Unfortunately, it basically...
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