Just some work pics

AzIron · Oct 2, 2020

crane operator said:
Add from JLG :

Delay or eliminate the need for cranes onsite. Our new 1075 telehandler reaches up to eight stories and offers a 60-ft horizontal reach for less material rehandling.

No need for cranes anymore- 75' telehandler.

Dont worry as the lack of talent worsens you will get plenty more calls to upright forklifts I have seen 3 go tail up in in the last 2 months one of them bent up a rebar cage for a Casson to where it was scrap gc kicked the crew off the job for safety violations

colson04 · Oct 2, 2020

AzIron said:
Dont worry as the lack of talent worsens you will get plenty more calls to upright forklifts I have seen 3 go tail up in in the last 2 months one of them bent up a rebar cage for a Casson to where it was scrap gc kicked the crew off the job for safety violations

I've seen the carnage people do to telehandlers and I've never understood it. I've ran them a fair amount on construction sites and in the oilfield and never torn one up. Maybe I'm not using them right?

DMiller · Oct 2, 2020

Meh!! Just not trying hard enough!!

crane operator · Oct 2, 2020

Impact said:
Do you need to borrow a chain hoist to pull the engine?

I'm good. A beam trolley at about 3 ton would be handy for my gantry though, we've just got a old piece of chain wrapped around the top of the gantry. Which is horrible, because I wouldn't stand for anything like that on a jobsite with one of the cranes. But its been on there for years and I just never think about it. One more thing on the list.

crane operator · Oct 2, 2020

Good news Friday!

Got the motor out, (picked it up, rolled the gantry ahead and let it down). Valve cover off. All the valve springs have their washers. Compared washer from pan, its too big for valve spring washer, but it is the same size as the head bolt washers

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Front right corner bolt, has no washer under it. Evidently on its last head gasket, the washer dropped off the bolt before they braappeddd it in place. It rattled around the valves, and tinkle tapped its way to the oil pan. The "mechanic" said f it. and ran the bolt home anyways. I think we are just going to leave it alone. I'm concerned if we pop the head bolt loose, then I'll have to do head gasket. Its held this long without a washer.

I do at least now know where the washer came from- progress!

hosspuller · Oct 2, 2020

crane operator said:
I do at least now know where the washer came from- progress!

Yeah ... But will you remember where you put the washer for safe keeping when you DO take the head off. ?

colson04 · Oct 2, 2020

hosspuller said:
Yeah ... But will you remember where you put the washer for safe keeping when you DO take the head off. ?

He's praying this engine never comes out again while he owns this crane

DMiller · Oct 2, 2020

terex herder · Oct 3, 2020

Truck Shop said:
Could be pulled over for any number of driving reasons/moving violations.

Trucks with crap piled on dash board, dirty, crooked torn flaps, bent stacks, broken steps, dented scraped up fuel tanks, oil spots on back of cab and frame, broken cracked fenders,
bad glass, cheap stick on letters for name, multiple tires that the tread don't match are all dead give away to a truck and driver that have a problem.

Around here pulling those trucks over would be racial profiling. And the drivers don't (won't) speak English.

crane operator · Oct 3, 2020

hosspuller said:
Yeah ... But will you remember where you put the washer for safe keeping when you DO take the head off. ?

I've already forgotten

colson04 said:
He's praying this engine never comes out again while he owns this crane

Second law of thermal dynamics : the entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

All things come apart eventually.

Truck Shop · Oct 4, 2020

terex herder said:
Around here pulling those trucks over would be racial profiling. And the drivers don't (won't) speak English.

It's required that drivers understand and speak English to get a CDL-so who is giving them the license back there?

DMiller · Oct 4, 2020

Am thinking some states went back to letting the Corner Drugstore issue licenses.

kshansen · Oct 4, 2020

Truck Shop said:
It's required that drivers understand and speak English to get a CDL-so who is giving them the license back there?

I think they are putting them in one of these if you buy the 3-pack!

crane operator · Oct 7, 2020

https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/36304/outrigger-incident-in-nz

Pretty small mats, on not very good ground. Didn't have much ctw. on the back either. Probably dinged section #3 pretty good where it hit the bridge beam, but the bridge saved him from going all the way over.

Tugger2 · Oct 7, 2020

Ground permits for all? outrigger setups . On it goes. Im doing a job right now with a sectional barge,these are older sections without the center lift ring. Customer wanted me to use my 1/2" 4 way chain bridle and just dead end the hooks like stoppers in the pin pockets. I said no way . I called my wire rope guys up to have 4 3/4 X 5' straps made with an eye on one end and a knob pressed on the other.This would have been a positive direct connection. They said no can do ,not for lifting not Worksafe approved . How does a choker manage to jerk a huge log in from the bush , with the cable always pushed to breaking strength? The sections are 13 tons ea. Rigged like this ,attached to my 4 part 1/2" chain bridle the chokers exceed its capacity of 31000lbs.Gotta be better than a grab hook jammed the wrong way into a slot. They are jamming us deeper into the box we all think outside of to survive.

Tinkerer · Oct 8, 2020

DMiller said:
Am thinking some states went back to letting the Corner Drugstore issue licenses.

Illinois is famous for having governors go to jail. George Ryan-- for drivers licenses. Before he went to jail we had Polish drivers delivering rock on a job that neither spoke or understood English.

DMiller · Oct 8, 2020

Tinkerer said:
Illinois is famous for having governors go to jail. George Ryan-- for drivers licenses. Before he went to jail we had Polish drivers delivering rock on a job that neither spoke or understood English.

My Parents were from IL, born/raised, Dad was the one came up with the Driver License from the Corner Drug Store as is where received HIS OWN First License, East Alton IL!!!!!

Kiwi-truckwit · Oct 9, 2020

crane operator said:
https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/36304/outrigger-incident-in-nz

Pretty small mats, on not very good ground. Didn't have much ctw. on the back either. Probably dinged section #3 pretty good where it hit the bridge beam, but the bridge saved him from going all the way over.
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Pretty much the entirety of that project area is crap ground. I'm surprised that they hadn't used swamp mats for the outriggers if the radius was that far.

crane operator · Oct 10, 2020

One down- down under, and the other one in florida. Both blamed on ground giving way.

https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/36325/void-causes-overturn

https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/36323/truck-crane-over-in-nsw

AzIron · Oct 10, 2020

It occurs to me that it's an extra hours work to do heavy mats but seems a cheap price to the alternative is it stupidity or laziness

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