small knuckle boom, no winch, rigging methods, push pull uses ?

I like the bed free for hauling, the boom is stacked away. Its not as good for erection work although it can be done. I want a bigger one on a different truck but this is so simple a girl can drive it.

The truck is so economical we use in in place of a 1 ton. Gonna send it today with a mower, brush hog type and a picnic table.

Mike L said:

what are you building?

Click to expand...

That's an old post
I put together a 4x4 freightliner.
My next little job in my spare time will be swapping the front clip and repowering with a C10

simonsrplant said:

That's an old post
I put together a 4x4 freightliner.
My next little job in my spare time will be swapping the front clip and repowering with a C10

Click to expand...

pics or it didn’t happen!

I took the test and have it on my NCCCO card, but have not used it since. They are handy though, the trench safety guys and concrete structure guys do great work with them.

I started before there really was a test I guess, I kind of dropped out before it became an issue and to tell the truth would rather be on the other end than pull the levers. Just curious, what is on the test? Is it like I tell my people,,,, with this little rig every foot you boom down or out its like tossing a 100# block on it.
There was a thread in cranes where one of the guys had a good list of tricks for lack of better wording, wish I would have copied it. I been at this long enough most of it I do by instinct but I do a quite a bit of training. Things like weigh and test, rotate in place and not to boom down with very7 heavy loads if it can be helped etc.
Back in the day I was the fill in operator for an owner and used to get comments on occasion,,,, that was way easier,,, smoother than the last guy running it,, ha
I dont muind utility work, a little is ok and I usually get someone to run it when I can. I been operating equipment well before I was double digits in age, I get bored with it too easily and just as soon stand with a shovel and point if I can when I want something fussy done.
Some days I can manage 1 control without too much problem, others can run 2, 3 and 4 on occasion,,,, ha.

There's a written test that you can study for for about 8 or 10 hours and take, there's individual tests for each kind of crane so I was a whole lot of tests to take to fill up that card
They do keep asking the same kinds of questions but they toss in the specific ones to that type of crane mixed in there.
The practical tests are all very similar. If you have something with a winch then you do things like take the hook and ball to a barrel, dunk it in there without knocking the barrel over, back out and over to another barrel 180° away and a different radius. Take a chain on the hook and fly it over to a circle on the ground and land it all inside the circle.
Then they all have a course you run a heavy weight through.
With the knuckle boom it was kept within the range of what it could do but it weighed about 2,000 lb, it was a barrel, and it had I think 3 ft chains hanging off the bottom. You had the boom and stick your way through the course of traffic candles with tennis balls sitting in the top of the cutoff poles. You couldn't touch the ground with a barrel and you had to keep the chains touching and you weren't supposed to knock any of the balls off of the traffic candle sticks. At each end of the course there was a circle to land in. They're all shaped like a z.

None of the more creative stuff? Hanging a guy in a 55 gallon drum cause no man basket to take a sheet off a building to slide a beam in? Sitting in a nylon choker 85 ft to hook the rigging on top of a flag pole? My fave,,, Hilti bolt a sign clip to the side of a concrete wall, shackle a nylon sling on to it and sitting in it so the rig can be used to bring the next piece to a huge cross to be sent up on the side of a church. Must have looked like a little Jesus hung up there in the middle of nothing,,, people walk past in the parking lot, look like a fly on the wall.

I remember a beam needed to go in a pocket under a balcony, no way to get to it and finally c clamp to stand on after getting off the ball on the far column, then connecting that end with a spud so it would come loose, hanging the beam and catting across to the other side to get a spot so could pull the other end loose to wiggle the first connection in. One other comes to minf was hanging the man basket, clamping it to the elevator and putting a 20 ft extension ladder in it.
Can you imagine that today? 25 guys on a building and saw about 1 lanyard. Now they have clamps and harnesses, cant move without tie off.