Just some work pics

Tugger2 said:

Congratulations on the new crane

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Thanks for that, and to everyone else for the encouragement also. Its a lot of $ and there's no "guaranteed" work for it out there. I just find a lot of the stuff we are setting just keeps getting bigger and bigger. So I guess bigger and bigger cranes. But man are they expensive to work on.

I really want to get the thing stacked up with some counterweights and all the stick in the air and see what it will do. Get it to work- its got to pay for itself somehow.

Pool made out of a cut down conex. All pool or it has a removable divider that makes 1/2 of it a hot tub. They reused the doors cut down and latches as access to the hot tub pumps. Then the steps are on top of that area.

I don't know what they put in the bottom, but the sides were still the corrugated steel with a sprayed on liner. Whatever they put in the bottom was heavy, this was made out of a cut down 20', and it was over 9,000lbs. A standard 20' conex is usually only 5,500-6,500lbs.

More work on the entryway.

This one was the heaviest one. I was over 16,000 with beams, bar and rigging. Its laying out the flattest also.

Needed the lights by the time we got done with it too.

Sure is a LOT of steel for a sign. That CONEX appears to have a Lot of extra material welded on it and in it!!

In liebherr news. Finally got a chance to mess with the Hi/ lo range. Electrical worked. Air switch was working. Took the air nozzel and poofed some air to the air shift piston. Nothing. Then a little something. Then it started popping back and forth. Put a little air tool oil in the air lines, and shifted it back and forth a bunch. Reassembled all the air lines and electrical and it goes in and out of high like it should. Yeah.

Tried climbing my shop driveway and it didn't want anything to do with it. Barely 1,000rpm with it loaded up. Drained off all the old diesel. Lots of algae/ slime snot in the bottom of the tank. Took the power washer to the interior of the tank. Warm halogen light on it for a couple hrs to dry it back out.

I cut the fuel filters apart that I put on in N. Carolina to load it and unload it. They were black and nasty. Hopefully the killed algae and water.

Filled it up new fuel, and put in some of the tank treatment that hvy 1 ton posted a link too. Also some of the "injector cleaner/ cetane booster/ fuel treatment" from powerserve too, under the "it can't hurt" system. New fuel filters again, and fired it up. Black smoke rolled as I got into it. I made a couple trips up and down my hill and it seems to be running pretty good.

I've got one cylinder running about 40 degrees warmer than the other 5 on the exhaust manifold. I'm thinking maybe a valve carboned up a little from sitting and not seating quite right yet? Hoping a good warm up and run will fix that. It is the last one in line of the three on the exhaust manifold, but the other side didn't show that much temp difference (engine is a v-6). I'm showing around 160-180 degrees or so on the rest of them at the manifold, and that one is right at 200. Turbo mount bolts that were right beyond it were loose on the connection between turbo and exhaust manifold, and it was leaking exhaust right there too, don't think that would make that one run warm.

Likely not the loose bolts, may also have a little snot in that nozzle yet dribbling and adding a little extra fuel so I would expect to see that work thru.

crane operator said:

This one was the heaviest one. I was over 16,000 with beams, bar and rigging. Its laying out the flattest also.

Needed the lights by the time we got done with it too.

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I can see why 2" steel plates were needed. what a rig

I'm curious … What is the business or organization that's going to be using that entry way ? I can't think how "Caught", "Gossip", "Cover up" and "Explosive" relate to each other. But I'm a bit slow.

hosspuller said:

I'm curious … What is the business or organization that's going to be using that entry way ? I can't think how "Caught", "Gossip", "Cover up" and "Explosive" relate to each other. But I'm a bit slow.

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Sounds like a presidential campaign office?

DARO said:

Sounds like a presidential campaign office?

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No body I'd vote for. Spending other people's (taxpayer) money frivolously. Spending your own money … That's different and something I'm all for.

I just thought of a "rag" newspaper … " All the news that's fit for a birdcage."

Its a "national enquirer museum".

Loaded out the big tank we stood up the other week. Its been sitting there for about 6 days now loaded, I'm guessing waiting on permits to leave.

Finished up the sign with the 35 ton. I left the 70 ton down at the tank place and the big beams were all done. I should have slid out dead stick though, I almost was short of tip height.

Maiden voyage Monday. I had a panic moment on Sunday though. I was test running at the shop and couldn't get the winch to cable down. It was locked out. Turns out the 3rd wrap indicator gets tripped by a series of cams, and if you spool the cable all the way on the drum, (like I did before having it hauled home) the winch will not cable down.

Of course, its only mentioned in passing in the manual. "If cable is fully wrapped on the drum, the cam sensors will be tripped and must be reset". No mention of what the "cam sensors" are, or how to reset them, only after much digging in the manual, did I discover that they are on the winch. I did some tearing apart of the winch, and found the little "cams" and discovered how they "clock" and reset them. I have no idea if I reset them in the right direction, but the winch went to working, about 5 hours after discovering it wouldn't go down. Fun, fun, I tell you.

Anyways, action pics. As far as a 1st job, we put up some steel platforms on the elevator shafts for them to pour the next section off of. I had 8,900lbs gross at 95' radius.

Also put all the rebar and some forms up, and boomed down right up to chart/shutoff. Everything worked great and its pretty solid feeling even to max cap. I should have cleaned my top glass, the one picture from the cab didn't come out too good.

Better yet, we picked up everything that needed picked up, and put it on the roof. I've got a list of things that need work, but I can't complain, we got through the first job without destroying anything.

Even got the real boss to working on Sunday, I was in 'hurry up and get the crane ready for the monday job", and needed a hand to install aux. winch.

The aux counts as counterweight, and if you don't have it mounted, you're supposed to have a couple extra little cheek weights you install. I don't have the little cheek weights, and I knew we would be pushing chart, so I mounted aux. winch, and we also dismounted the jib. I didn't want the preload from the stowed jib.

Made a test pick at the shop with some big steel plates I've got, and went ahead and laid it down with just hook on also.

In non work related news, we had kind of a busy weekend in addition to trying to get the liebherr ready to go. My second child graduated from high school friday night. GRADUATED.

He's never been a big fan of school, but he made it through. He's going to the community college next year (he did 1/2 days there this year) and at the end of next year should have a associates degree, and then wants to transfer to a 4 year school and finish there. Thinks he can end up with a 4 year degree, with only 2 years at the 4 year school, 3 years out of high school. The community college doesn't cost him any tuition.

Feed mill. 151' to the bottom of the floor. 4,000lbs through the concrete windows.

Something is wrong with the old lattice truck, and its kinda in the way. But I think if it was working, we wouldn't have been there today.

Congrats on the crane, your son GRADUATING high school, and getting the "real Boss" out on the new rig to help....my boss would be afraid of getting a spot of grease on something.....