Just some work pics

Junkyard said:

I had a sterling rollback with a Mercedes. Biggest POS I’ve ever owned, driven or cussed at. Only ex-wives should be allowed to own them!

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They have a Sterling with Mercedes for a water truck at the quarry where I worked and I would have to disagree with you. I have an ex-wife and despite some differences, no she does not deserve that!

crane operator said:

Vet clinic MRI machine. Offloaded with the galion, skipped it to the door. Two brick steps and then 60' down a hallway.]

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Pretty amazing how common those are. Less than two decades ago only select locations for people had them, and even fewer university veterinary research facilities. They're life savers for people and Fido, I know.

Knocker of rock said:

Pretty amazing how common those are. Less than two decades ago only select locations for people had them, and even fewer university veterinary research facilities. They're life savers for people and Fido, I know.

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And also not that many more years ago ultra-sound was a "new thing", now days if you call out the Cat dealer to do an estimate on a bucket repair they us their ultra sound machine to measure the thickness of the steel so they know what sections need replacing and which ones are good to go.

And not that long ago if you were having a problem with the shifting of your D6C you either figured it out yourself using the service manual or paid the dealer to come out. Now days you can post something on this site and you might have half a dozen different people from as many different countries or continents offering help from trouble shooting charts, parts books and such!

kshansen said:

They have a Sterling with Mercedes for a water truck at the quarry where I worked and I would have to disagree with you. I have an ex-wife and despite some differences, no she does not deserve that!

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I’ve heard all the hate for these trucks and engines but I had mine for 5 years I changed a fuel line and did the front spring pins and shackles. Now having said that it was on a boom truck and was driven from job to job at 85 kmh ( a little over 50 mph) not to tough a test but I had no complaints. But then again I don’t have an x wife either just the one I married 32 years ago and I still think real highly of her too.

I think the big complaint on the mercedes of that era, is due to a couple things. It was loaded with emissions stuff. It wasn't a common engine, like cummins, detroit or cat, so no one really wanted to work on them or grow to understand them, or stock any parts for them. The germans just build things differently. The volvo engine is another one that isn't real popular in my area either.

The complaint I always hear on the sterlings of that era is how cheap the dashes/interiors are put together. In the rough use of dump truck or garbage truck that the vocational market that ford/ louisville/ sterling always tried to hit, the interiors wouldn't stand up to the daily pounding. Plastic would bust up and fall apart.

crane operator said:

I think the big complaint on the mercedes of that era, is due to a couple things. It was loaded with emissions stuff. It wasn't a common engine, like cummins, detroit or cat, so no one really wanted to work on them or grow to understand them, or stock any parts for them. The germans just build things differently. The volvo engine is another one that isn't real popular in my area either.

The complaint I always hear on the sterlings of that era is how cheap the dashes/interiors are put together. In the rough use of dump truck or garbage truck that the vocational market that ford/ louisville/ sterling always tried to hit, the interiors wouldn't stand up to the daily pounding. Plastic would bust up and fall apart.

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Exactly. Oddball motor parts etc and JUNK interior. I had another sterling that was my boom truck. Little C7 Cat and an 8LL. Poor little motor never had a chance with a 23 1/2 ton crane on it. Only interior cheaper than a Freightliner is a sterling!

Junkyard said:

Exactly. Oddball motor parts etc and JUNK interior. I had another sterling that was my boom truck. Little C7 Cat and an 8LL. Poor little motor never had a chance with a 23 1/2 ton crane on it. Only interior cheaper than a Freightliner is a sterling!

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What's the difference, a lot of the parts seem to be the same as I remember.

Oddball as in nobody stocked anything. Even the dealer. The rollback sat almost a month waiting on parts. Around here Mercedes parts aren’t as readily available as Cat, Cummins or Detroit. Not to mention they do things their own way like Crane Operator said.

Little walkbridge at a resort near town, across a creek. 66' long and allowed to clear out no trees. None. No branches, no weeds nothing. Touch nothing in the creek bed either.

And don't start working until 11:00 in the morning, because its right next to the honeymoon cabin, and we don't want to disturb the guests at $1,000/ night. And the other side ends on the main entrance road, which is a constant stream of traffic after about 9:00. The side I'm on with the 35 is in a parking lot.

They fabbed the beam up in a different lot, brought it to the 35 with two forklifts. I picked it in the center, and boomed it down across the creek until I was touching the tree that was really in the way. Then I had one of the other guys block one lane of the entrance road, with the galion, and grab the far end of the beam. You can just see it through the trees. They flagged the road to one lane, and let the tourists howl for a while.

After the galion grabbed the far end, I let down on the center, then re rigged on the close end of the beam, and we finished setting it with both cranes. In and out in a couple hours, for the two beams, and never had to block the road totally, and no trees damaged. Honeymooners even got to sleep in until 11:00. Everybody happy.

Looks like a tree is going to be in the middle of the walkway. "pears to be covered in poison ivy too. Hope it's an optical illusion or the future honeymooners are gonna be itchy.

I like that beam grabber. We don't really use them here much, except for the guys in the fab shops.
Are the beams weathering steel, or are they going to paint them later?

Kiwi-truckwit said:

I like that beam grabber.

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I have two of those, they are really nice on big I-beams, that are hard on wire chokers. They are super nice if you have to grab a beam off center and tip it up to thread through a structure. Filling in, so to speak. When you do that with a wire choker, they tend to want to slide off the beam, and the clamps will stay where you put them.

hosspuller said:

Looks like a tree is going to be in the middle of the walkway.

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The beams are actually all to the left of the tree (just barely), the reflection in my glass makes that hard to see.

And don't start working until 11:00 in the morning, because its right next to the honeymoon cabin, and we don't want to disturb the guests at $1,000/ night.

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To heck with trucks, excavators and cranes - we are in the wrong business!

CM1995 said:

To heck with trucks, excavators and cranes - we are in the wrong business!

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I don't know- if someone wants me for a day with the equipment it costs $1,000, more for the bigger stuff. Its just kind of pricey for a room. It is a really fancy resort, and this is their fancy "honeymoon" cabin right by their spa.

They had a wedding there shortly after they had the restaurant back open, and the number for the wedding and reception and rooms was on the far side of $100,000.

Busy day friday, two different locations replacing HVAC units (35), then a water tank with a two hour drive each way. Used the Rt and one of the 25's for the tank.

Busy monday, HVAC unit first thing at a shopping mall. Then off to set a tank that we took down earlier this spring. 70 and the 25 to tail.

After the tank I got to take the 35 back to the military base- they were back from training at Irwin, and needed their conexes unloaded.

Water tank, they at least brought a short wheel base tractor to deliver, unfortunately, they loaded it backwards, but we made it work.

Looks like it was a tight squeeze to get the bale in the back of the truck, but if it fits, it ships.... (its antique plates on the truck too)

And when the clouds look like this behind you, its time to get to the barn.

So another trip to Ft Lost in the Woods?

I actually went to the guard base in harrison ark (that's only a hour from me). There's a engineer group there, that took some of their stuff to california with them. I don't get over to ft. leonard wood. Its too far for me, I do a little work with a crane outfit out of rolla mo. They do most of the work on base.