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crane operator

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I'm sure they will warranty the pump. They probably won't warranty my shipping back and forth. All my time trying to figure out what was wrong. My steering orbital. My flow restrictor pressure relief valve. Or any "downtime". Or any labor in and out.

But maybe I can get it back working again.
 

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BMC Stone has a conveyor system similar but ANCIENT, comes out of the pit to the crusher and stockpile area.
 

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I shouldn't have to buy another tag rope for a long, long, long, time. I went to a sale last weekend, a customer of mine that did tower repair work is getting out of the business. There was 5 miles of rope, and I brought home about a mile of it. Its all good double braided without that cheap core. A couple of the tubs had 5-600' in them.

There's a bunch of roundups under the tubs of rope, and I got a few chain come a longs and some shackles too.
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Looks like your schools are flush with cash, like in my area. Covid relief money I think it is, they got a big chunk and are spending it ASAP. My HVAC guys was surprised to be replacing units before their due date, well before. Easy come easy go!

Kubota minis have designated rigging points marked, look on the digger boom, at the top of the arch, those are two. The other two are also marked, in the rear. Not that you did it wrong, just not the way the Kubota whiz kids planned it, but you probably have a lot more time in the op seat then they do!
 

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Kubota minis have designated rigging points marked, look on the digger boom, at the top of the arch, those are two. The other two are also marked, in the rear. Not that you did it wrong, just not the way the Kubota whiz kids planned it, but you probably have a lot more time in the op seat then they do!

So I grabbed it by the blade and the lugs on the track frames. This little unit is a hard used rental, and I didn't see any other places marked. It was actually back heavy, not boom heavy, so I couldn't really see it getting away from me.

I do see what you're talking about on the arm, but I just leveled it with a pair of shackles, and kind of put the boom out until it hung straight. Isn't it nice when they put designed pick points on something, only they are over 4' different in height? Good luck on guessing that for rigging length.

I've done some larger ones without lift points, and usually I'll just grab the track frames, and if they have a bigger stick, I'll put another line on the stick.

I put arrows on this web picture where I grabbed it, where's the other pick points on the rear? You own something like this if I remember right.

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So I grabbed it by the blade and the lugs on the track frames. This little unit is a hard used rental, and I didn't see any other places marked. It was actually back heavy, not boom heavy, so I couldn't really see it getting away from me.

I do see what you're talking about on the arm, but I just leveled it with a pair of shackles, and kind of put the boom out until it hung straight. Isn't it nice when they put designed pick points on something, only they are over 4' different in height? Good luck on guessing that for rigging length.

I've done some larger ones without lift points, and usually I'll just grab the track frames, and if they have a bigger stick, I'll put another line on the stick.

I put arrows on this web picture where I grabbed it, where's the other pick points on the rear? You own something like this if I remember right.

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I cheat a bit. I'll use a couple of 5ft synthetic slings shackled to the blade, and just chuck a hook onto them and another hook onto a shackle to the boom. Comes up perfect on a digger that size, up to 3t.
 

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Kiwi refreshed my memory, you swing the house around "backwards" and use the blade. On my U 25S Kubota mini, figuring I'd be lifting it often, I had two custom length wire rope slings made up, they and two stock slings made it fly perfect. For sure your rigging job worked equally well, many ways to skin a cat etc. I think I picked mine a few times before noticing the designated pick points, kind of a nice touch they include those but they need bigger labels!

I sold it a couple weeks ago, got all my planned projects done, hadn't used it for a year, and used the money to asphalt my rural home's driveway, (plus more room in the hangar now, where i stored it) something I've wanted to do for decades. It was fun to operate that little machine, and they are working fools.
 
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