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hosspuller

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Many years ago I helped build a log cabin from a kit … By hand... One log got away from us and ended up in the lake. :eek: Sure would have been nice to have a crane lifting the logs. It was hard to set the logs on the spline between logs. Lifting, turning, holding... all at the same time.

Did they have a come-along on the diagonal to square up the cabin ? or did the initial build have enough precision?
 

AzIron

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It seems like your new crane is spoiling you

It's kinda like an extendahoe on a backhoe once you have one you dont know how you got anything done without it
 

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No come a long. Just string lines on the first plate, and cross measured the diagonal after the first row, and screwed those down. Each row got staked to the last, and there were two that went all the way across the long walls, in the center in the last row, they had to pull a little on the long wall to get that top log on. No cutting or notching of anything, except the intial porch logs, two of those got cut for length.
 

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It seems like your new crane is spoiling you

Its strange, this year has been a lot of bigger crane work. Its been good though, can't afford to have it around if its not working.

It will change, its always kind of a cycle, in two months it will probably be 25 ton truss jobs all the time. I've got a job coming up that I need both my 70 ton and the 100 ton for. If it wasn't for it coming up, I think the 70 ton would be for sale. I've been kind of dragging my feet on selling it, hoping that a project would come up for it, and as a "fall back" if I had a bunch of trouble with the 100 ton.

We used the 70 ton a bunch this spring down at the tank building factory, but they haven't done any more big tanks since that spring order. And we haven't used it in many other places.
 

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Early in my trucking career I hauled cabins like that out of MT. They would stack logs on you until you were maxed out and then throw a couple more on!
 

Welder Dave

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That's close to home. Good thing they weren't lifting something and no one was hurt. It's a new school so I wonder if the ground wasn't properly compacted. It looks like they had everything set up properly. Do you normally have to check ground compaction when setting up a crane? A 360 ton crane has to weigh a few pounds. Says an engineering firm is figuring out the best way to right it.
 

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It looks to me like they had mats under the outriggers and big mud mats under the whole area. The only way to stand them back up is two cranes. One to lift it, one to catch it.

My old boss in iowa had a 360 ton liebherr about like this one, and if I remember right it was over 400,000lbs with counterweights on.
 

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On those log cabins, I would have to use binoculars to see where the logs were going. I have hauled lots of log houses like that. Would drop trailers at the log home yard and then, live unload at the site. Have been in some pretty fun places.
 

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Well I took a couple days off, thursday we flew to portland, Or. Drove out to the coast and rented a house and stayed with my wife's parents and her brothers and sisters and their spouses. Flew back late monday.

First class each way- which was a first for me. The last time I flew we took a booster seat with us, and our youngest is a junior in college, so its been a while since I've been on a plane. The extra width and leg room (booked 1st row on both flights) made a big difference for me.

So I haven't been in oregon since I was just out of high school. Of course I'm a little older, and I notice a lot different things than I did back then. I should have known what I was in for, before boarding the portland flight. There was a skinny girl with pink hair in a combat coat and a stocking hat (but no shoes?) , that sat on the floor in front of the united boarding gate desk, during the whole time before the flight. Never got up, just stared at every person that walked up to the desk and everyone just stepped around her. Right in front of the counter.

But airports are goofy places anyways, so I didn't think that much of it. Get the rental car, and head for the coast, about a three hour drive.

First off- I don't know what kind of revenue stream they are generating, but there's a weigh scale/ inspection station about every 10 miles all through the state, and on thursday, they were all open. Even the little side of the road ones that barely hold two trucks were open, with trucks lined up to get in. I didn't see as many open ones later through the week, but the scales are everywhere.

So we drive for a couple hours and decide to get lunch. Halfway to the coast, see a little town cafe, advertising BBQ. We park and I notice something odd on the door. Gluten free? What the? How do you have a bbq sandwich for lunch with no gluten. Wife stands in line for a table, I go out to use the phone, and she comes out about 10 minutes later. Still doesn't have a table, no one really in the diner. Says the only person working only brought out one meal the whole time she stood there, and it got sent back to the kitchen, because it was raw. Not undercooked, raw.

So back in the car we go. Next place is a McDonalds. Which I generally don't eat at, but with the luck we're having, I'm looking for safe, how can they screw up a mcdonalds?

It was like a episode of the twilight zone. The one person working there, was right off the carnival circuit. It was a lady, (I think) about 4' 4" tall, with a darker, fuller mustache than anything I've ever grown between my mouth and my nose. I get our food, and sit down, and on the other side are two guys, kind of look like regular people, except the young guy in carpenter pants, has a purse over his shoulder. A honest to goodness purse.

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It was just weird.

We got our lunch and took off for the coast.


Had a great time with the wife's siblings. Ran up and down the coast, had some seafood, walked the beach, rented some 4 wheelers and rode the dunes. Last day was just the wife and I and we toured the falls on the columbia east of portland, and had a great time with just the two of us. But I was beginning to wonder at the start of things.


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Of course I did spend 15 minutes on the side of the road watching these guys stand a wall with a link belt 40 ton. They had some big timbers to set too, and my wife was giving me the "we're on vacation" look, so I didn't get to see how they were going to rig them.


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Well I took a couple days off, thursday we flew to portland, Or. Drove out to the coast and rented a house and stayed with my wife's parents and her brothers and sisters and their spouses. Flew back late monday.

First class each way- which was a first for me. The last time I flew we took a booster seat with us, and our youngest is a junior in college, so its been a while since I've been on a plane. The extra width and leg room (booked 1st row on both flights) made a big difference for me.

So I haven't been in oregon since I was just out of high school. Of course I'm a little older, and I notice a lot different things than I did back then. I should have known what I was in for, before boarding the portland flight. There was a skinny girl with pink hair in a combat coat and a stocking hat (but no shoes?) , that sat on the floor in front of the united boarding gate desk, during the whole time before the flight. Never got up, just stared at every person that walked up to the desk and everyone just stepped around her. Right in front of the counter.

But airports are goofy places anyways, so I didn't think that much of it. Get the rental car, and head for the coast, about a three hour drive.

First off- I don't know what kind of revenue stream they are generating, but there's a weigh scale/ inspection station about every 10 miles all through the state, and on thursday, they were all open. Even the little side of the road ones that barely hold two trucks were open, with trucks lined up to get in. I didn't see as many open ones later through the week, but the scales are everywhere.

So we drive for a couple hours and decide to get lunch. Halfway to the coast, see a little town cafe, advertising BBQ. We park and I notice something odd on the door. Gluten free? What the? How do you have a bbq sandwich for lunch with no gluten. Wife stands in line for a table, I go out to use the phone, and she comes out about 10 minutes later. Still doesn't have a table, no one really in the diner. Says the only person working only brought out one meal the whole time she stood there, and it got sent back to the kitchen, because it was raw. Not undercooked, raw.

So back in the car we go. Next place is a McDonalds. Which I generally don't eat at, but with the luck we're having, I'm looking for safe, how can they screw up a mcdonalds?

It was like a episode of the twilight zone. The one person working there, was right off the carnival circuit. It was a lady, (I think) about 4' 4" tall, with a darker, fuller mustache than anything I've ever grown between my mouth and my nose. I get our food, and sit down, and on the other side are two guys, kind of look like regular people, except the young guy in carpenter pants, has a purse over his shoulder. A honest to goodness purse.

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It was just weird.

We got our lunch and took off for the coast.


Had a great time with the wife's siblings. Ran up and down the coast, had some seafood, walked the beach, rented some 4 wheelers and rode the dunes. Last day was just the wife and I and we toured the falls on the columbia east of portland, and had a great time with just the two of us. But I was beginning to wonder at the start of things.


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a huge % of the california fruits &nuts have moved up the coast :confused:
 

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Can relate to the Above, fast becoming a place not fit for man and much of the time nor beast in the Great NW. Uncle has actually stated regret for moving down from Anchorage to Bend then CdA.
 

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CdA has went down the tubes in the last 10 years.
I had not been down there in about 10 years, hard to believe the change
Will stay in Bonners Fery, population around 3000-3500. I am 7 miles from town so miss The hubbub of town. LOL
 

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Well this might be OT for Crane Operators work but it's a little project going on near me.

They are starting the project of replacing an air suspended roof on a sports with a ridged roof of some kind and they have a live stream of the project showing the big crane being used.


Not much going on right now but might be interesting when they get really working on it!
 

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Traffic signs are a little different in oregon too. I've never seen a traffic calming zone.
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The funniest sign though was at a construction site. It listed all the things not allowed, drugs,alcohol, no PPE, No tobacco, No vaping (which was a new one for me to see), no discrimination on basis of sex, color, orientation, gender status, etc. , and then the newest addition, - NO bullying.

Never in my life have I seen a sign that listed "no bullying", but I'm wondering, who gets to decide what bullying is? You know it when you see it? So if two of my employees are standing there doing nothing, and I chew them out, I ain't paying for standing around time, am I then "bullying" and they can turn me in?

It was just a interesting trip.
 
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