Just some work pics

[crane operator]

Concrete culvert. Making a new driveway for a new bank. Dirt work guys said the driveway portion was over $150,000. Its to get to a side street so the customers can have a light to pull out onto the main street.

 

[crane operator]

We didn't get them all done on Friday, and it rained cats n dogs friday night. I was a little worried about the crane being in the hole saturday morning. I'm glad I did get it moved friday for the second half of boxes, otherwise it would have been fun in the mud.

Water got kind of deep by the trash on the entrance box.

30 boxes total, at 18,800lbs each is 546,000lbs of concrete boxes. Unloaded 22 boxes friday, did the last eight saturday morning.

 

[crane operator]

Drivers had to back around a blind corner, some were better at it than others. One of the contract drivers had a big sleeper long wheelbase truck, but he nailed it right in.


Old School kenworth with some fancy lettering on the door.

 

[hvy 1ton]

I expect nothing less from Boonville. Damn, I just noticed the e. Must be Arkansas.

 

[Tradesman]

That’s quite a driveway culvert is it the Missouri or the Mississippi flowing through it

 

[kshansen]

I expect nothing less from Boonville. Damn, I just noticed the e. Must be Arkansas.

And what's with the three red horns behind the fuel tank?

 

[Bumpsteer]

Look like they are off a locomotive.....

Ed

 

[kshansen]

Look like they are off a locomotive.....

Ed

I sure would not want to have him passing me on the left while I was on my motorcycle and have him hit the horns!

 

[Hank R]

10 years ago I was following Jordie into town and he had a set on his low bed truck I was in my school bus and the kids at the bus stop did the the air horn thing you should of seen them jump. When those Train horns went off

 

[terex herder]

The state of Texas is off limits to that truck.

 

[crane operator]

RT went to a water pumping station monday. They pump water from here to two other lakes for drinking water. There's actually 4 pumps here, but they rotate every couple years rebuilding pumps. The bad thing is its 2hours there by car, I used to do it with my 35 ton crane, but its a 4 hour drive in it, so I loaded the lowboy up and its a much nicer delivery in it. There's like 300' of pipe with a pump on the end of it, and all the pieces come out of a 8' x 20' lid on the concrete.

The pump is about 16,000 lbs or so, that's it on the trailer in the one picture. The deadman is for pulling the whole mess, then we tie it off a piece at a time and two line it up out of the hole.

 

[crane operator]

Pulling the first piece, and the pipes how they run down the bank and into the water. Its actually a pipe within a pipe/ casing, and runs on rollers up and down the casing.

 

[crane operator]

Took the little neck breaker out again this week, HVAC work in a tight area. The units are on the other side of the building, and 30' down the other side, so up and over the security light, but not into the antenna or the upper part of the building, and then shove the boom through the tree.

 

[crane operator]

Trains. whoo whoo, chuga chuga.

They have been refurbishing this engine, and needed some weight figures for it. They said 10-12. I thought they said thousand, but I've lifted them before and knew they were way heavier than that. They might have meant 10-12 ton.

An oh yeah- they needed a weight as going down the track, so the boiler and water reservoir were full too. Ended up around 28,000 lbs. Good thing I had the 35 ton. And they don't have much for factory "pick points" on the old engines either.

 

[crane operator]

Roofing materials in Eureka Springs. Its a little resort town down in arkansas, about 2 hours away. Old- old town, narrow street and we drove in and backed out. I took the yellow 25 because its the fastest down the road.

 

[crane operator]

Yellow 25 is getting some new shoes up front.

And a little food trailer made out of a 20' conex going in.

 

[crane operator]

So the camaro strikes again this morning. My boy leaves for school, drives around the block, and back in the door he walks. Says "my car is making a loud noise from the back, can you look at it?" (He's learning, it took him the trip around the block, but at least he's stopping when something sounds wrong.)

Anyways, it rained a bunch this weekend, so I'm thinking a little rust on the rotor and a wheel brake is squeaking. Nope, there's two grooves in the asphalt like the oregon trail , he went the block on the rim.

I've been laughing to myself about it all day. His shocks are shot, and I've been after him to replace them because it rides pretty bad. My youngest daughter actually walked right past the flat tire to get in the car, and he never even walked around it when it was "making noise". Probably just turned up the stereo louder.

Unbelievably, the rim is okay. I figured it would be junk, but what's that saying about angels protecting fools and children? I'm not sure he's a child anymore, but I wonder about the fool part. He's learning though. He asked what the tire fixing was going to cost, he's down to about $60, waiting on his income tax return and hoping his $ lasts until schools out and his summer job. Oh to be young again!

 

[crane operator]

Anybody else get to pick up a dinosaur today? Probably just me.

 

[Tradesman]

How do

Anybody else get to pick up a dinosaur today? Probably just me.

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How you calculate the Center of gravity on a dinosaur

 

[crane operator]

I figured it was between his head and the tip of his tail and I was right on......