Just some work pics

crane operator · Sep 15, 2018

When you hit a curb with a truck tire they generally push the top off to the side, they don't have much side support, plus the impact. But I've got the push spread out with my mat, and the concrete curb is probably 10" thick, while the drive is probably only 4 or 6".

hosspuller · Sep 15, 2018

Crane Op … RE: front cribbing … would you have used 4 timbers crisscrossed instead of two stacked ? For stability ? Or something else ?

crane operator · Sep 15, 2018

Those blocks are a little narrow for one stacked on top of the other. I usually go two and then two more crosswise. Its just throwing two more blocks, and I don't like cutting corners. I like the wood to be at least close to as wide as the steel pad.

crane operator · Sep 22, 2018

So there's a couple retired guys in my neighborhood always complaining about people driving too fast. I think they got the county to put up two speed limit signs, that have solar panels and radar readouts that show your speed in real time.

It's not working for me, at all.

When I back out of my driveway, the northbound sign is about three houses down from me. When I stop, and shift into drive, it has a little blinking red light, then as soon as I start, the numbers start going up in real time.

Everytime I see that blinking light and the numbers start moving, I get that feeling like "wonder how fast I can get the numbers to change". Like the big hammer game at the carnival, I keep wanting to peg it.

I try to force myself to look the other way, the signs are playing mind games with me, and not in a good way.

My wife thinks I'm crazy, she says they don't effect her at all that way, I feel like its my own little private christmas tree, dragstrip set of lights, everytime I leave my driveway.

Welder Dave · Sep 22, 2018

You need some way to test the repairs on your P&H. I think it's a great diagnostic tool!

crane operator · Sep 22, 2018

Well if anyone sees a f450 with a flatbed, mechanics crane and aluminum tailgate out driving around, let me know. They stole it out of my shop yard between 12 and 4:00 today while I was out on a job.

Tradesman · Sep 22, 2018

crane operator said:
Well if anyone sees a f450 with a flatbed, mechanics crane and aluminum tailgate out driving around, let me know. They stole it out of my shop yard between 12 and 4:00 today while I was out on a job.

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That’s the sh!!!Ts man. Hope you get it back in decent shape.
Edit: cops didn’t take it for drag racing at the speed sign in front of your house did they?

crane operator · Sep 22, 2018

I don't think the cops took it. Its not hardly fast enough to beat the speed limit there.

I'm sure wishing I had that GPS chip in it now though.

Hank R · Sep 22, 2018

I get Earthmovers Magazine every month and Equipment losses are huge every where in the world. Cameras and chips are a must have now a days it is sad this world. I feel for your loss.

kshansen · Sep 22, 2018

crane operator said:
Well if anyone sees a f450 with a flatbed, mechanics crane and aluminum tailgate out driving around, let me know. They stole it out of my shop yard between 12 and 4:00 today while I was out on a job.

That sucks! Hope they find it fast!

td25c · Sep 22, 2018

Reckon they are the same bunch from the last episode ?

Hope you get it back in good shape and they end up in the slammer for a long time .

Natman · Sep 23, 2018

I am lucky to have the county Sheriff department's main entrance 50' past my crane yard/boom truck yard (?) entrance, that seems to be a good thing these days.

crane operator · Sep 24, 2018

Took the 25 ton truck crane out to set trusses Saturday, and ended up having to come back and get the galion. I could have got the 25 down the hill, but the road wasn't wide enough to get turned on, I would have stuck my back outrigger on the gravel hill up to the garage.

I thought about taking the mack out there, it has a lot more rear clearance, but I didn't figure I could get it set up on that hill without a lot of work, and the galion would reach it. Its just that we had just loaded the RT on the lowboy friday for monday, and so I had to unload it, then load the galion.

I had kind of a late start because they didn't want the crane until 11:00, so by the time I drove back to the shop to get the other crane, we weren't getting a exactly quick start, but they had walls to straighten and brace yet, so they did that while I switched cranes.

Fortunately, it was kind of flat between the blacktop and the front of the garage on the gravel.

crane operator · Sep 24, 2018

I tried to get the door post in the picture on the way out, its hard to get a feel for angle in pictures.

I went down in 1st in low range, but I should have put the transfer case in. It was sliding a rear wheel for a lot of the trip down. I was worried if I had it locked in it would bind up when turning off the black top and tear the blacktop up, and it can be kind of finicky about locking and unlocking, so I didn't want to try to do that on the slope.

I didn't mess around though when walking it up out, I just locked it in, and walked it up the hill.

They only had two carpenters, so I had my son meet me at the shop to load and unload, then came along to rig and run tag rope. Saved them some time.

In the one picture you can see the truss pile, the delivery truck wouldn't go down the hill, he dropped them up top and they drug them down the hill with a track skid loader.

They had to park it on the bottom side of the pile so they wouldn't slide on down the hill like a pack of cards when they cut the bands.

crane operator · Sep 24, 2018

Tailed a tank at a factory, they have a guy right close that just repainted his old 35 ton. We picked it up inside to put their skates under it, then rolled it outside to stand it up.

Rt is at the mall doing some units. This was a new VA clinic, so the "superintendent" was all about paperwork. Lift plans, copies of last three months inspections, rigging plan, certifications with picture ID's, the whole nine yards.

Last picture is a hot tub with the galion. It fit just right on their blacktop down to their lawnmower garage.

Tradesman · Sep 24, 2018

Ready mix trucks must of loved backing in there

Tags · Sep 24, 2018

I really look forward to your updates, you do some really interesting things in some very challenging places...sorry to hear about your truck, any news on it?

crane operator · Sep 24, 2018

No news on the truck, they found a abandoned stolen car near our shop that day, they think they abandoned it then stole ours, but who knows?

The concrete drivers have some real fun in our area, you really have to watch not to spin the drum up too fast on a side hill, or when it climbs the side it can lay you over real fast. Most of them have full lockers on the rears, the one concrete company has their own winch truck, the other one will have a wrecker come to pull them out uphill when they are empty on a steep hill.

They probably parked a pump truck, right where the galion is, then just backed the trucks straight down the hill to dump in the hopper while on the blacktop.

ichudov · Sep 25, 2018

Well, I craned some 42" gate valves yesterday that I bought from MWRD. Two of them turned out to be brand new. Then, surprise, turns out that I also got a FREE SKUNK that was living in the wood crating of one of those valves!

Tugger2 · Sep 25, 2018

You guys have a great variety of work.
Hope you kept that little guy happy.

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