Just some work pics

[crane operator]

Popped up a couple of internet broadband towers last week. The first two pictures are a freestanding tripod tower, about 95'

The second two pics are the first 90-100' of a cable stayed tower. I think they were going to go to 180' or so, they will build the rest with their little climber leg and rope and pulley's.

 

[crane operator]

Some units over at the catholic church.

 

[AzIron]

You can't put a price on those big hooks I use them on just about everything I also seem to us half inch chain on just about everything to but at least I dont break chains

 

[crane operator]

My son called me a couple weeks after school started. He was at the gas station after school, with antifreeze tumbling out of the radiator of the camaro. Head gasket out again.

I asked him when he got home if he's been out running the snot out of it. "Dad, I don't run it hard all the time...."

Anyhow, he's been suffering riding the bus for a month or so, and I sprung him from that the other day.

1994 Ford f-150, 300 straight six and a five speed. $550 as a non running truck off craigslist. I took a battery with me to look at it, it had compression so I figured there couldn't be anything else too expensive to fix and brought it home. A new cap and rotor for the distributor did the trick. It was full of two year old gas, so we're getting that burned out.

I told him the only way to really learn to drive stick it to drive it everyday, so we rode circles in the neighborhood and a big parking lot for a while last weekend. He had driven stick just around the yard, but not everyday.

He managed to make it to school yesterday and today on his own, he takes the long way around to miss a uphill stop sign.

 

[crane operator]

The chains on the lowboy are 5/8". I had two bigger hooks and two smaller ones, and the small ones would get wedged all the time.

Made some forklift pockets for the fixed manbasket. We always load and unload with a forklift, and the base of the basket had tapered cross irons, and it just didn't work, so a couple pockets for guides and to keep it off the ground. Lots nicer to load now.

 

[crane operator]

Some trusses

 

[crane operator]

Couple wildlife pictures, everything is getting ready for fall.

Look close at the first pic, he's kind of hard to see- but we do get some big spiders here, that's my size 13 in the pic for a reference, and I've seen quite a few bigger tarantula's here.

The last pic is from this afternoon, I was down along the buffalo river and spotted this cow elk in the trees.

 

[crane operator]

Nice drive down there this afternoon. Fall is in the air here, sycamores are just changing color, not much else yet.

 

[crane operator]

Just for you boys out west that talk about the flat midwest:



This is on the way down to the buffalo river in arkansas. Its not really 13 miles downhill, but the last 4-5 miles or so is all down. The first four or five miles kind of roll up and down.

 

[kshansen]

Anyhow, he's been suffering riding the bus for a month or so, and I sprung him from that the other day.

1994 Ford f-150, 300 straight six and a five speed. $550 as a non running truck off craigslist. I took a battery with me to look at it, it had compression so I figured there couldn't be anything else too expensive to fix and brought it home. A new cap and rotor for the distributor did the trick. It was full of two year old gas, so we're getting that burned out.

Hey Dad! This is your long lost son up in New York any chance you could buy me truck like you bought your other son? I already know how to dive a stick and would even pay you back once I got it running

It's been probably 15 years since I saw a 1994 F-150 that looked that nice around here! 300 Six with 5-speed would be my top choice for a nice basic pick-up. We did have a bunch of them for off-road trucks at the quarries around here and they seemed to take just about all abuse the guys could heap on them and keep going.

 

[crane operator]

I'll keep my eye out for one, do I have to deliver it too? I could use a vacation.

Its got a little rust over the rear wheel wells, where all the old body style fords rust. Other than that, and it needs snycro's in the transmission, it seems like a ok truck. Around 200,000 miles on it, but it had decent rubber on it, they will need replaced before it gets hot next summer (weather checked).

At least I can open the hood on those style trucks and figure out what's going on, on some of this new stuff, I have trouble identifying what a lot of the stuff even does, let alone how to fix it.

The 300 six has a nice torque curve, and it doesn't really like too high of rpm's- maybe he'll keep his foot out of it.

We're in kind of a nice area for rust free. Far enough south not much salt on the roads, far enough north for no salt air from the gulf.

 

[Tugger2]

The first truck i ever bought was a 1968 f250 4x4 with a 300 six. The 300 was well beaten when i got so we rebuilt it ,they are great motors.

Heres some elk we saw on the way to the bridge job. Its amazing how they just seem to melt into the woods .

 

[crane operator]

Took down a video board the other day. It was old and heavy. My scale battery decided that was the morning to quit working, but I'm thinking the top was over 5 and the bottom was more.

New one goes up next week.

 

[crane operator]

Trusses on a church. Its a pile of wood for just a second story hallway.

10 or 12 common's in the middle and the rest were all built like gables, only vertical boards and all 2x4's, and getting shorter each way as we went up onto each roof.

 

[crane operator]

Coil at the hospital

 

[crane operator]

Got a adapter built to put my fixed basket on the end of the jib of my RT.

I had a local shop cut the side plates from a template I made of what I needed. They cut it on their plasma table.

 

[crane operator]

Put it to work on the christmas tree

 

[crane operator]

Followed this truck out of the jobsite today.

The sticker in the back window says "Locally Hated". What's that mean? Am I too old to understand?

 

[crane operator]

More sheet rock.

 

[crane operator]

One of my guys sent me this, they started setting trusses right in front of him, then worked to the back of the house.