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"They" always know better.....until something fails years later and "they" are nowhere to be found......
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crane operator
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HVAC Units with the 100 ton.
crane operator
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Reinstalling outrigger jack on 70 ton.
Sign at the truck stop, the led's don't last 8 years if the covers aren't on the cabinet and the rain burns the wiring up.
Sign at the truck stop, the led's don't last 8 years if the covers aren't on the cabinet and the rain burns the wiring up.
crane operator
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Tree. It was steep and pretty narrow coming off the city street, I don't know that I could have got in there with a truck crane, so galion to the rescue.
Tugger2
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Doing trees is good until you see water coming out of the cut on the stump while your holding it. Good job !
Welder Dave
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Must have been a pretty experienced arborist to take that tree down.
Kiwi-truckwit
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Did you lift down the limbs on that tree too, or just the stem?
Trees make me nervous, but also give a good feeling of accomplishment when they're sitting on the ground
Trees make me nervous, but also give a good feeling of accomplishment when they're sitting on the ground
crane operator
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The tree climber already had the top and most of the small stuff down. He just wanted me for the big stuff because it was so close to the garage and with the house and power and cable lines everywhere, there really wasn't a place to just drop it. It was solid all the way down, just had root rot real bad, so it was only a matter of time.
I've seen sycamores in the spring be running with water tugger, they are real heavy then.
This afternoon, we had to work about a hour by radio, because the sun was right where we were working.
I've seen sycamores in the spring be running with water tugger, they are real heavy then.
This afternoon, we had to work about a hour by radio, because the sun was right where we were working.
crane operator
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Our "fix it" list is getting kind of long. We've been kinda busy, and I've kept my mechanic/ rigger working as rigger so much, he hasn't had any time to be mechaniking. I've been running crane too much to really look at anything, let alone fix something.
So right now- the old ford flatbed tandem that we've been using for counterweight hauling in bad conditions, just chucked something in the front diff.
The western star lowboy puller has been limping along, with a problem with the top gear in the 13 speed (probably bearing related) Its going to need a reman trans, and sooner rather than later.
The peterbilt project we got running this spring to pull the rollback/ counterweight trailer, has something leaking oil into the antifreeze. I'm suspecting oil cooler, I'm worried its liner o-ring, its parked until we sort that out.
Small grove 25 ton has a 8.3 cummins that's down on power. I'm not sure if its fuel related, or possibly something in the inj. pump. (diaphragm?) Its turbo spools up, no strange smoke, doesn't rattle or miss, its just low on power. A "barely get down the road" kind of low on power.
Grove 35 ton has sprung a leak in the but telescope section, its going to need a re seal before it goes to another job. That's a 3 man for 2 days deal to pull boom, reseal, and reinstall.
We just got a outrigger jack rebuilt on the 70 ton, and left it on jacks overnight while greasing, etc. and now a different jack is wet.
40 ton rt was puking oil out the boom also, but it turned out to be a hose in the upper section. So its back operational. Baby steps, baby steps.
Galion has a wheel seal leaking, so there's a planetary that's going to need pulled apart to get at that seal. Right now its just going to have to live with leaking a little.
Mack with the National boom truck has a outrigger leaking on retract, and a control spool leaking also. Its going to need its camelback rebushed also.
The liebherr has two steering cylinders leaking, and one of the counterweight cylinders is damp on retract.
The newer ford flatbed counterweight truck, is still in pieces, and is on the back back beyond of back burner until I get some other things fixed.
Its been great to be busy, but I've got some catching up to do.
So right now- the old ford flatbed tandem that we've been using for counterweight hauling in bad conditions, just chucked something in the front diff.
The western star lowboy puller has been limping along, with a problem with the top gear in the 13 speed (probably bearing related) Its going to need a reman trans, and sooner rather than later.
The peterbilt project we got running this spring to pull the rollback/ counterweight trailer, has something leaking oil into the antifreeze. I'm suspecting oil cooler, I'm worried its liner o-ring, its parked until we sort that out.
Small grove 25 ton has a 8.3 cummins that's down on power. I'm not sure if its fuel related, or possibly something in the inj. pump. (diaphragm?) Its turbo spools up, no strange smoke, doesn't rattle or miss, its just low on power. A "barely get down the road" kind of low on power.
Grove 35 ton has sprung a leak in the but telescope section, its going to need a re seal before it goes to another job. That's a 3 man for 2 days deal to pull boom, reseal, and reinstall.
We just got a outrigger jack rebuilt on the 70 ton, and left it on jacks overnight while greasing, etc. and now a different jack is wet.
40 ton rt was puking oil out the boom also, but it turned out to be a hose in the upper section. So its back operational. Baby steps, baby steps.
Galion has a wheel seal leaking, so there's a planetary that's going to need pulled apart to get at that seal. Right now its just going to have to live with leaking a little.
Mack with the National boom truck has a outrigger leaking on retract, and a control spool leaking also. Its going to need its camelback rebushed also.
The liebherr has two steering cylinders leaking, and one of the counterweight cylinders is damp on retract.
The newer ford flatbed counterweight truck, is still in pieces, and is on the back back beyond of back burner until I get some other things fixed.
Its been great to be busy, but I've got some catching up to do.
petepilot
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sounds normal
crane operator
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In other news, got into the trees a little earlier this week, setting trusses on a house. Set in the street, reach over one tree to the truss pile, pick the truss over a 60' tall tree, then boom down through these to lay them down. This kind of nonsense is what I like about wireless A2B.
Even worse- I had to take the mack , no room to put jib in the 25 ton, not to mention that its not running right.
Even worse- I had to take the mack , no room to put jib in the 25 ton, not to mention that its not running right.
crane operator
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Finishing out the parapet wall with the 100 ton. 
crane operator
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There's a bad clay mudhole on this project, the general won't dig it out and put in some 6" rock, so everyone keeps sticking manlifts and forklifts through it. Of course the more you drive in it, the worse it gets. That is what probably happened with this cable choker, it isn't mine, it was laying there when I showed up this week, I think its the iron workers, and it looks ugly.
crane operator
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Removal of a old concrete deck scale. Unfortunately, someone built a bunch of hopper bottoms on top of it. I drove by on saturday, and kinda wondered how we were going to get them out on monday. Turns out, the construction crew figured the crane outfit would know how to get them out.
I had them split the scale in 1/2, they had requested my 70 ton crane, fortunately the 100 ton was just 3 miles down the road, so I went and got it. I needed to set back far enough to pull out the deck from underneath.
I had them split the scale in 1/2, they had requested my 70 ton crane, fortunately the 100 ton was just 3 miles down the road, so I went and got it. I needed to set back far enough to pull out the deck from underneath.
crane operator
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The other half wasn't quite as easy, it didn't have enough of it sticking out from under the hopper bottoms to get ahold of. I tried to kind of slide it out, but at 30,000lbs, it wasn't doing much sliding. I sent one of the guys to the local metal supply house to get a 15' piece of pipe. I picked it up, we slid the pipe in over 1/2 way, set it down on the pipe, and used it to roll it out. Egyptian style.
crane operator
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Units with the 70 ton.
crane operator
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Church steeple removal. They howled about the cost of the 70 ton, but it was a pretty good distance away, and I knew there was more weight there than they thought.
The cap wasn't bad. it was just a metal pyramid. It was the framing cap that was going to be heavy. Carpenters- "there's only 1,200lbs there". Me- " there's 1000 lbs of shingles on that piece, not counting sheeting or the 2x12 stud framing, or the fire proof sheet rock interior lining." I guessed 3,000 lbs.
I was good for around 4,000, and I had to have them demo off the bottom 3' of sheeting and shingles, and then throw out the fire rock from inside, before I got it off the roof at around 3,500lbs. So I was under on weight too.
The cap wasn't bad. it was just a metal pyramid. It was the framing cap that was going to be heavy. Carpenters- "there's only 1,200lbs there". Me- " there's 1000 lbs of shingles on that piece, not counting sheeting or the 2x12 stud framing, or the fire proof sheet rock interior lining." I guessed 3,000 lbs.
I was good for around 4,000, and I had to have them demo off the bottom 3' of sheeting and shingles, and then throw out the fire rock from inside, before I got it off the roof at around 3,500lbs. So I was under on weight too.
crane operator
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crane operator
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Stuck manlift in the alley, so lets not hook onto the frame of the forklift to pull it, lets hook to the mast and let the retract chains take it. This is why we don't buy used rental machines. The other side of the machine is a clay bog, and we've had some rain recently. They throw rock on top, but there's no bottom to it.
