Just some work pics

[crane operator]

Got a rigging box mounted on the galion also. There's just very little storage on the crane, and we rarely have the rigging truck with it. I like having a assortment in each rig.

We just welded on 4 little tabs, and its all bolted from there. If you had to pick and carry a large tank or something that you wanted to brace off the front, or put a tire between you and it, you could just dismount the toolbox with 4 bolts and set it on the ground, then remount after.

 

[Junkyard]

Did you call Galion for approval to weld on it? I'm sure the manual says to.....

Looks good to me. Smart to make it removable in case you gotta pick and carry.

 

[crane operator]

Did you call Galion for approval to weld on it? I'm sure the manual says to.....

Sshhh.....

 

[crane operator]

Went late yesterday down to the quarry to reinstall the crusher ring. New blocks look much nicer than the old ones. Its about a hour and a half down there, and they weren't going to be ready to pick it up until 4, so it got kind of late.

 

[crane operator]

Busy today too. 35 ton for a couple units, then the 25 off setting some glue lam beams, 48'. Far unit was 80' radius, so I put out dead stick.

 

[crane operator]

25 ton beams. They were in three separate cabins all in a row.

I was going to go down to the next building and talk to those framers, I work with them quite often also, and its been a long time since I've seen all clear plywood used as exterior sheathing (I was curious why they were using it). Most everyone here has gone to the zip system stuff.

 

[crane operator]

Its a pretty drive out to that cabin site. They make me use a construction entrance, and it makes a 15 minute drive, into a 45minute to hour drive, because I have to drive all the way around.

The first picture you can see the road on the other side of the bottom, going up the other hill behind the fence.

Second picture is in the development, headed down the hill. The road goes downhill pretty good, and then where the road disappears before you cross the pond dam, that's where its really steep. The new cabins were off to the left of the cabins on the other hill.

Third picture is going back up the hill leaving, don't worry, I had plenty of time to take the picture at walking speed going back up the hill, you don't have a prayer of shifting until you hit the top.,

 

[crane operator]

Took a couple other pictures while leaving, the gravel road is the construction entrance. You have to kind of turn at the top of the far hill where you meet the county road, or you'll spin out. (It's steep up at the top).

The second picture you can see the construction road on the far hill through all the trees.

Last picture shows a nice big valley a mile or so up the road.

 

[crane operator]

Precast today. This is going to be a pond inlet with the bottom one being the discharge to the next creek. They only sent 3 sections because they haven't finalized the elevations on the pond to make the top box.

They made the hole a little big, I had all I wanted setting the base, I straddled the corner to get as close as I could. Bottom section was 52,000

 

[crane operator]

I think there is going to be one or two more risers and a lid. This was 3 risers and they will basically build the pond dam around the outlet.

 

[crane operator]

I can stand walls too! I just don't have those fancy snatch blocks, and all that other stuff like someone else has.

Went last night and looked at this jobsite, steep entrance, no room and powerlines too. In fact the truss pile was directly under the power lines.

Galion would fit though, unfortunately I'd delivered it to a different jobsite, where they weren't ready yet (but I was thinking ahead and delivered it early), so I'll get to deliver it again for practice.

 

[crane operator]

And in case I haven't mentioned it, I hate friction swing. Did I say I hated friction swing? Yes, I'm pretty sure, I'm not in favor of friction swing. Really. Totally not in favor.

 

[Hank R]

Good to see the neck breaker getting out and earning its keep...

 

[hvy 1ton]

Are you tempted to add remote controls yet?

 

[Knepptune]

My neck hurts just looking at that. Wonder how long it would take for you to get good at running it by looking at a mirror.

 

[crane operator]

Pick up the truss tight to the building, hope the tag man doesn't swing the truss into the power line as I was sneaking past, then swing left until the nail-benders yelled (I almost called them carpenters- when will I learn?).

That deaf, dumb, blind operator sure swings a mean crane ball........

 

[mitch504]

That Galion has friction swing? How does that work?

 

[crane operator]

It has a brake drum on the swing lever, so as soon as you let go of the lever, the brake locks. Some small boom trucks have it too. It really stinks for cycle work where you're back and forth like setting trusses. Free swing is much smoother. Friction swing is nice if you set one piece of pipe in a refinery, and they weld on it for 6 hours or so, you can fall asleep and the crane doesn't swing away in the wind.

 

[mitch504]

Oh, I was envisioning swing powered by shafts, drums, frictions, etc; like a B-E 22b or something. I couldn't see where they could put that!

 

[crane operator]

Anybody ever do this?
Hour round trip to the shop, if someone came and got me,and I had a air line break on the lowboy. I tried to salvage the ferrule on the fitting, but I couldn't get it out. The air line had broken just 2" past the fitting, and after standing there and swearing at it for a little while, and giving up on the ferrule coming out, I just rammed the air line back on the fitting, and cranked the nut down.

It sealed up mostly, and I just hammered for home. It was friday afternoon and I just didn't feel like messing with it, it was on the leveling valve for the air bags, not a brake chamber, so I figured if it popped itself back out, I would just be losing air fast enough I would see it in the cab. Made it home successfully, sometimes the equipment gremlins run and hide.