Just some work pics

[hvy 1ton]

Spotted a crop duster on the way home from church, it must be pretty potent stuff he's spraying, because the tank isn't very big. Tank was on the back of the trailer with the booms. He's got a pretty slick little trailer for hauling it around.

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In my very limited experience with helicopter spraying, they've done the really high rate applications. Both times a tender was on the edge of the field and the chopper would land on the tender and get another tank of mix. Every few tanks they'd add just enough fuel to keep it in the air.

 

[crane operator]

More pics from the 100' trusses. And got a new headlight in the ford aeromax. It was $$ I thought- but I only found them at one place.

 

[crane operator]

Boat after we undecked it. And doing a hvac unit with the link belt.

 

[crane operator]

Had my hands full at the railroad, their older engine is a little heavier than the newer one.

It had a little bit of a gear chewed up, but I think the real problem was behind this gear. I think the main bearing is out. We left it up on blocks and hoping for a traction motor to be built. I fished the chunk of gear out of the grease box.

 

[crane operator]

Two way radio tower replacement.

 

[skyking1]

nice pick, it is hard to get the same number in both windows like that.

 

[AzIron]

What's the point of 2 weight readings

 

[1466IH]

What's the point of 2 weight readings

I believe the top number is the maximum capacity at the current configuration and the bottom number is what is actually on the hook

 

[skyking1]

yes, and usually a mouse farts or the breeze blows and it goes over on the actual and the alarm starts honking.

 

[Natman]

Had my hands full at the railroad, their older engine is a little heavier than the newer one.

It had a little bit of a gear chewed up, but I think the real problem was behind this gear. I think the main bearing is out. We left it up on blocks and hoping for a traction motor to be built. I fished the chunk of gear out of the grease box.

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I didn't know LMI displays went up to 130%! You nailed it, ALMOST needed a bigger crane but not quite. The big nuke research site out in the desert here uses a 50% of max limit on their picks I'm told.

 

[crane operator]

What's the point of 2 weight readings

Exactly like they said- one is max capacity- the other is what I had on the hook.

And yes- it will vary up and down a little- it will show more as you are cabling/booming up, and less when cabling or booming down, and settle out when you stop moving.

The big nuke research site out in the desert here uses a 50% of max limit on their picks I'm told.

I think the 50% is kind of ridiculous, especially when you are talking larger weights and cranes. In the railroad engine picture, true capacity (100%) is another 13,500 lbs or so. So if I'm over by 500lbs or so when I'm good for 90,000lbs, I don't get real worried. If you're only good for 2,000lbs, and you're 1,000lbs over, that's a whole different animal. Of course at the nuc site, I could see having big safety margins.

 

[skyking1]

there's a 10% buffer but I make a point of not giving that away, especially in something like a boom truck. That's for me

 

[hvy 1ton]

I think the 50% is kind of ridiculous,

The easiest way to sum up everything I've been told; the Idaho National Laboratory is a special place.

 

[Natman]

A retired iron worker I knew paid for his 15 ton boom truck, several times over, by leasing it out to some company out there, months at a time, with little operation, the meter kept running! I fly over the place many times a year (don't get lower then as requested on the sectional, about 1500') , never have wanted to jump thru all the hoops to work there. More nuke reactors in one place then anywhere in the world I think, all research. They developed the Pluto probe battery, 300 watts, 24/7, for 35 years I think it was...., according to the engineer I rode the ski area chairlift with once!

 

[crane operator]

Trusses at a new apartment

Stairway I'm glad I didn't have to build

 

[crane operator]

Chemical storage building

 

[petepilot]

Trusses at a new apartment

Stairway I'm glad I didn't have to build

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they could have put a slide in there with a winch at the top to get back up

 

[kshansen]

they could have put a slide in there with a winch at the top to get back up

Yep! make it into a bobsled ride.

 

[scholzee]

Why is the crane cribbed up on such an angel ? Novice here enjoy seeing your work and glad you are kept busy.

 

[kshansen]

Why is the crane cribbed up on such an angel ? Novice here enjoy seeing your work and glad you are kept busy.

Not to jump in on Crane Operators thread but simple answer would be to get the crane level. Sometimes picture makes it hard to tell how much a grade is when in person it is quite a bit over the length of the frame!