skyking1
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you could plug Boeing in there and it would fit to a tee.
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Tugger2
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Its pretty sad to see a great outfit like Boeing going down that road. I hope theres lessons for future management in these businesses or we are never going to build or get anything done.
I like the new Grt groves. I like the new Manitowoc CCS systems. I will say, manitowoc and potain have their stuff together when it comes to diagnostics. The Grove and Gmk lines have a ways to go. On the crawlers and towers you don’t need a computer other then looking at manuals. You can see any diagnostic information right on the displays. Grove you still need the service tool software but I’m betting it’s a software update away from doing everything on the display. And I hope that update comes soon. But, it may never come.
crane operator
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KW has been booted to the back yard, I think its got a miss in it, and its possibly electrical, but we just don't have time to dick around with it.
Mack with a flatbed showed up on a auction, and big shout out to @Junkyard for giving me a hand getting rolling out in Tulsa.
Of course with a auction buy, you know there's going to be a problem, this one's seems to be a blowby smoking habit. It runs like a top, no black smoke, its just got a lot of blowby. 2000 model CH600, 600,000 miles or so. E7-460 hp with a 18 speed transmission. I haven't looked for a tag on the rears, but they are low, top gear 1500rpm is only about 62mph.
I think they were using it as a sprayer tender, whatever they were spraying made for a rust layer on the deck, and we had to cut all the hoop body off the bed. I've got it all stripped down to a flatbed now. Probably going to add a axle behind the drives to get a little more bridge.
But its already made it successfully through a couple jobs.
Mack with a flatbed showed up on a auction, and big shout out to @Junkyard for giving me a hand getting rolling out in Tulsa.
Of course with a auction buy, you know there's going to be a problem, this one's seems to be a blowby smoking habit. It runs like a top, no black smoke, its just got a lot of blowby. 2000 model CH600, 600,000 miles or so. E7-460 hp with a 18 speed transmission. I haven't looked for a tag on the rears, but they are low, top gear 1500rpm is only about 62mph.
I think they were using it as a sprayer tender, whatever they were spraying made for a rust layer on the deck, and we had to cut all the hoop body off the bed. I've got it all stripped down to a flatbed now. Probably going to add a axle behind the drives to get a little more bridge.
But its already made it successfully through a couple jobs.
crane operator
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Whatever they were spraying, it ate up the chrome wheel caps on the tag, I've got them beat off the wheel, but I think we are going to try to battle the nuts off at the shop, rather than on the road somewhere.
I covered the cab good when I was cutting off the hoop frame, but at the last I wasn't paying attention cleaning up the headache rack. We're going to need new mirrors, I've slag sprayed the glass and ruined these.
I covered the cab good when I was cutting off the hoop frame, but at the last I wasn't paying attention cleaning up the headache rack. We're going to need new mirrors, I've slag sprayed the glass and ruined these.
crane operator
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If you look close, that's me on the big screen, they've been building a big concert venue south of town. Schedule is unbelievably tight, I'm set up in front of the stage, hanging a flagpole about 2 hours before the concert was supposed to start.
They had the floor seating (folding chairs) set up right to the crane. They started doing sound checks when I was about done, I saw the cab glass move when they fired up the bass. The video guys came and asked how much longer I was sitting there, they had video cues to set up.
Of course, all I could see was a hose blowing or some other catastrophic break down, and the big theme of the concert would be my broke down crane, right in front of the stage. My angels were watching over me, and the crane held together. A welding guy we work with, welded all through the night getting the stage ready.
They had the floor seating (folding chairs) set up right to the crane. They started doing sound checks when I was about done, I saw the cab glass move when they fired up the bass. The video guys came and asked how much longer I was sitting there, they had video cues to set up.
Of course, all I could see was a hose blowing or some other catastrophic break down, and the big theme of the concert would be my broke down crane, right in front of the stage. My angels were watching over me, and the crane held together. A welding guy we work with, welded all through the night getting the stage ready.
crane operator
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Flying glass and scissor lifts into the building.
crane operator
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Big storm went through bentonville/ rogers arkansas area. I got talked into sending cranes down there for a couple days. I've really got things to do at town, but I'd like to think that if I had a tree laying on my house, someone would come and take it off. So I had 3 cranes down there late this week.
We already brought one crane back to town, and I think we should be done with the worst of it by the end of next week.
We already brought one crane back to town, and I think we should be done with the worst of it by the end of next week.
skyking1
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Good on ya.
hvy 1ton
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Glyphosate and UAN are hard on most metals. Then there are the guys that spray sulfuric acid for various reasons.
John Griffin
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Good on you for helping lift trees off houses. I dont wish it on anyone but it's good to be able to help folks get them off their houses. We have been doing it for over 3 weeks since a tornado hit our area hard. Today was our last storm tree to take off a house.
John Griffin
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We weren't finished picking trees off houses from the tornadoes 3 weeks ago Wednesday when that storm rolled through. We had probably 100 trees down in the 5 points area of Huntsville. I'll post some pics in my thread when I get a chance. We had multiple large oaks down. We took a 52 inch one off a house. Looked at another white oak that measured out to 61 inches.
Welder Dave
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Edmonton tornado footage was used in the Twister movie. The tornado was headed for our acreage but turned just before hitting us. A mile West a granary was flipped over and a barn had 2x4's sticking out the side almost looking like a ladder to climb on the roof. Our next door neighbor took some pics. from their deck and successfully sued or got some kind of judgement because the pics. were posted in a book about the tornado without getting the neighbors permission. I was racing home to look after our dogs but my dad got there ahead of me. We lived in a mobile home too so very glad the tornado took a turn. The sky was green at one point and then went almost pitch black. There was a huge oil storage tank flipped over. You had to look carefully to realize the name on the side was upside down. Most bizarre was a McDonalds straw through a 2x4.
John Griffin
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I've seen playing cards stuck in wood siding in person. It's just flat our bizarre. In the 2011 tornado outbreak, a farmer just down from where we were working had a cow with a 2x4 through it. It was still walking around. Same storm, I found a 9 cubic yard dumpster wrapped around a large oak tree. The front and back walls were about 2 ft apart. Some of the weird things we find doing tree work that dont belong there were probably left by tornadoes.
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Weirdest thing I saw in a tornado aftermath was the 2013 ones that came through central AL. It was a split foyer house where you walk up to the main level into the living room with the kitchen on the left.
Living room intact like nothing happened. Walk into the kitchen and the exterior walls and roof were gone. Just to the right of the door to the kitchen there were some shelves on the wall with an open bottle of toothpicks with the toothpicks still in it. How does that even happen?
Took a garden home down just up the street that was hit as well. The front windows were blown out and there was grass and mud plastered on the walls of the hallway to the kitchen and living room. Kitchen intact however the entire roof was gone on living room adjacent to the kitchen, only the rafters were left. Weirdest part was the ceiling fan was still hanging from the rafters with all the globes with bulbs intact.
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Not saying we never get wind storms around here but nothing like those mentioned. I guess I'll deal with a bit of snow off an on over the winter. At least most of that goes away on it's own in a month or so. This last winter was almost disappointing, got new snow tires on my little Ford Ranger and don't think I ever really needed them.
crane operator
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Got the camera dialed in a little better.
Unless you have a zoom feature (mine does not) you'll find the field of view will differ a lot with how high above the load the camera is, obvious I guess, but sometimes I'll run some more stick out just to get my tip of boom mounted camera a wider angle/ Usually if I want to keep an eye on both sides of a large truss, so I can watch both nail benders finish nailing off their stabilizers, and as one of them (and they may switch off) shimmys out the truss to unhook me I can be cabled down by the time they get there. It sure beats them yelling (and me not hearing) or having a signal person, your regular customers will quickly get spoiled with your new capabilities.
crane operator
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I don't think this has zoom, but I'm not sure, its got a lot of menu options and the manual isn't in my native language.
I would say this one is more wide view than it probably should be, I was setting trusses on a 40x60 today, and I could see the whole house in the picture.
Honestly, the camera is kind of neat, but for flying trusses, I end up just running the crane by eyeball like I always have. I'm kind of looking forward to a HVAC unit in the blind, and see how that works. But similar to watching a LMI screen, or watching what the hook and load is doing, I chose to watch the load and the hook.
I bought two cameras, thinking I'd have one looking at the winch, and another one on the boom. I don't think I want the other camera, it will split the screen, and I want the whole screen for the boom camera.
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