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[Tradesman]

We got the dust collector back up today.
I know for a fact when the cows come home, according to the time stamp on the picture it’s 2:51. They where pizzed off too, the gate was closed and they couldn’t get to the barn. Because we where working in the barn yard.

 

[Tradesman]

I picked this gable set up at 75 ft. This morning. Not many houses like this any more, gable to gable including the garage.

I reset the sea can on top of the under ground concrete maple sap tank. I posted a picture on this thread a few months back when I lifted it off. It took longer to put the outriggers down than to make the pick.

 

[Natman]

Yeah, a roof structure designed to just keep the water off IS rare these days, most seem to be a way for the architect and truss engineers to show off! Girders hanging off of other girders, so needlessly complicated and it makes me wonder in 100 years how many will still be standing. Of course for us, it's more billable time.

 

[Tradesman]

I’ve been quite busy so I haven’t posted any pictures lately. The first picture is of a tower I took down on a quiet back street, I had to block traffic and reach over the house the lay it down in the back yard.

This picture is of a gable set at 83 ft. Radius

I put a man up in the basket at 72 ft. Radius to put bird screening on the gable vent and a chimney cap on a large church. I was within a couple feet of maxing out.

 

[Tradesman]

This was the first time I used all 112 ft. of stick

 

[Tradesman]

My wife and I where doing some shopping for our first grandchild.

 

[crane operator]

This was the first time I used all 112 ft. of stick

My mechanic is still upset with me. When I bought my RT I bought it by pictures. I had it delivered to a jobsite, and wanted to do a quick inspection of my own before I went to work with it.

I drove it off the trailer, put on the outrigger pads, set it up and shot out 110' of main, and boomed it down flat over the side. Jim said the pads on the other side were floating a little, but- its designed to do it. I told him "I'd rather find out now if it will do it, than when I really need to do it on a job".

Congrats also on the "grand" news.

 

[Natman]

And isn't it nice to be able to say that, "first time I used all 112"?! Compared to when I was ALWAYS needing ALL the stick I had when running 2 different 17 ton/70' stick boom trucks, my 110' the National has is also rarely used, but man is it nice to know it's there!

 

[Tradesman]

This is a Mennonite shop I did a week ago. When I showed up the trusses weren’t even there yet, so I set up and waited. When they arrived about twenty men put a three truss section together and away we went two hours later I was driving out the lane.

This is the view I had today while I put this swim spa into the back yard

 

[Tradesman]

These are some preformed standing seam sheets I put up on a library

 

[Tradesman]

This is a couple of my own projects that we have going now.

One of my employees sent me this. The guys that work for me usually keep an extra pencil for me in there apron. In my defense I am usually doing 10 things at a time while talking to customers or suppliers on the phone

 

[Tradesman]

The lake side of the house above.

 

[f311fr1]

Looks like a nice house

 

[Tradesman]

Heart breaking !!

 

[Tradesman]

This is the vertical auger tube out of thr grain drier I worked on a couple years ago. Pretty well used.

 

[Natman]

The abrasiveness of grain on elevator components is something I am thankful for.... (4 hours today, a different grain wear related job tomorrow) though I remember when I first heard about it I couldn't imagine it eating through steel! Good work too, usually on pavement, level pavement, less wear on the equipment then setting trusses also.

 

[crane operator]

Heart breaking !!

I'm smiling on the outside, but I'm laughing on the inside.... We were about two hours south of a pretty good snowstorm sunday, it was like 65 degrees here saturday. (I have no idea what that is in Canadian: 57, 109 who knows? It was no coat and no white stuff weather.)

The mess on the new rig stinks, but I'm not sure there's a thing you can do about it, aside from a indoor wash bay. Time to add onto the shop.

 

[terex herder]

Hey, dammit, no laughing. Saturday was great here, but Sunday was miserable. Miserable is when the wind speed is above the temperature, Sunday gusts were double miserable. Temp of 24, wind gusts of 53. The ground was warm, so melting from the bottom up in most spots. No serious drifts a blade and vee plow couldn't open on rural roads.

 

[Tradesman]

I have used the same 4” polyester slings for a number of years on core slabs and they’re starting to show some wear I was thinking about getting some 5/8” wire rope slings 16 ft. long 1/2” would do for the slabs I lift, but slabs can be pretty abrasive, so I’m looking for good safety margin. What do you guys use for core slabs ?

 

[crane operator]

I use my 8'x 1/2" steel around the core, to my 4-1/2" x12' steel with hooks on them. No need to drag 16' through and around. 8' cheaper to replace when they go bad. The bigger slabs in the bigger cranes I still use the 1/2" around the core, but my 5/8" or 3/4" spreaders with hooks instead because I don't have the smaller hook spreaders on those cranes.

I've never used poly/nylon on core slabs. I suppose you could use those plastic corner protectors or softners (belting or firehose) to protect the straps, but that takes a lot of time.