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crane operator

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Curious on the nose joints, trailer deck flattens out?

Its a traveling axle tilt bed trailer. Made for driving paving machines and rollers etc. Mine was originally from a asphalt company in Kansas.

The rear axles have their own sub frame, they slide ahead, then the 5th wheel and neck stays stationary and the lower deck pivots and puts the tail on the ground, making the deck a wedge from the top of the neck, tapered to the ground. With the winch on the neck its real nice to drag a non running semi on the deck.

Mine is a trail- eze brand, the most common ones of that type are landoll, but I don't like the older landolls, they pivot up on the 5th wheel, and the whole trailer goes up. The landoll is a lot lighter (no sub frame), which gets you more payload. But they aren't as stable as mine. Kind of like the difference between a frameless dump trailer and a frame type. I think the newer landoll's are more like mine.
 

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Still prefer Cottonwood!!
Nice trailers Trail-Eze, seen quite a few with the wrecker crowds around here had not had the pleasure of working on any as yet, Landolls are not garnered with much affection here either.
 

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Right up on the hill, it was kinda clear first thing in the morning By the time we got the unit set, the fog had rolled in and I had to come back in a couple hours to take the crane home. It was too foggy to drive it home.

Got a little start on putting some decking back down. Picked up a new cordless drill and impact driver at Lowe's. Of course I ended up having to get out the corded drill, there's some things that cordless just doesn't have the oomph for, like drilling a whole bunch of holes in stringers for a trailer deck. The little driver hammers the screws home pretty good though. I went with dewalt cordless because my grease gun uses that battery system. I stared pretty hard at a cordless 1/2" impact, but I just couldn't bring myself to drop another $175 on it. Maybe would use it more than the drill and screwgun.



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If you had the impact you’d use the crap out of it. I have a 3/8 and 1/2”. The little 3/8 gets used almost daily.
 

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I was thinking the smaller of the two 1/2" drive impacts, the "compact" one. The bigger one has more torque, but I was thinking more for swapping rears, trans, or other awkward places, that the little smaller package would be better.

I did buy a new 3/8" adaptor for the impact driver I got. Those disappear more frequently than anything else.

I will say that I wasn't very impressed with the battery life. I bought the "brushless" ones, they looked a little better built and are supposed to get better battery life. I ended up using my grease gun battery because its a lot bigger battery. The two batteries they sold with the drill/driver package were the smaller ones, and they aren't up for driving a bunch of holes.
 

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Yeah the small ones don’t last long. My 1/2” is the bigger brushed motor. It’s kinda clunky and off balance but it hits hard. The smaller one would be a lot handier for balance and getting in tight spots. The bigger batteries are definitely the way to go with anytning like an impact. My grease gun does ok on the smaller ones. There also seems to be varying quality in the batteries too. If they don’t have the little charge indicator they’re junk based on my experience.
 

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Was a accident report from W St Louis county on a job site yesterday. Was about a excavator operator had his ear buds in listening or jamming to tunes, repositioned and as could not hear the crew yelling stop swung counterweight into a deliver truck cab. Was on the news then Gone like never happened.
 

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I don't worry about flats on my backhoe. It's attached to a track loader, tough to get a flat on a steel track.:D
 

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That a spare 3208 or an 1160 up on the shelf?

3208T, but it smokes like a street hustler longing for a fix.

Actually from a New holland combine, bought used to replace a blown one. After the work to get it installed, the "good runner" from a junkyard, was pulled right back out and set on the shelf. I think its mostly all there, its just not much use to anyone without some work. The exhaust manifold ports on the heads are all blown out, and I just wasn't going to put it in a 50,000lbs crane and expect it to last long. So if anyone needs a not real great 3208, just shoot me a message.
 
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