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[Tradesman]

Some random pictures.
The roof on a 5 plex

A garage from Friday morning first set was at 78 ft.

A glamour shot from Friday afternoon.
I love the way the sun sparkles in her head lamps.

 

[Tradesman]

My son sent these pictures to me from one of their sites. It’s a big septic for a church
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[Tradesman]

Last Saturday I travelled about 1 - 1/2 hours and took down and dismantled three 100 ft. Internet towers. A good client bought them on an on line auction from a school board, they had to come down and be taken away on the weekend.

 

[Tradesman]

This was the last tower, I had to hook ten feet down because I was 54’ away, thankfully I was up hill a bit and picked up around 6 ‘ of elevation and just because of my cautious nature we only hooked onto 40 ft. of this one. I am also glad to report that I used a technique a saw on this sight as a safety precaution, I had the climber put two spud wrenches in the bolt holes so I could test the load before I owned it. As I remember I think whoever it was on this sight used long bolts but the wrenches worked well. Thanks!

It can fly!

A beautiful old school

 

[Tradesman]

I placed the lower trusses, ridge beam and girder rafters for the dormers on this house

One of my competitors retired and I picked up a couple high end housing developments in a ski resort town. This is a four plex with triple drywall party walls the one I’m hooked to was 4,500 lbs and had to go out around the gable wall, we put two tag lines on and slid it in quite nicely.

A little project we’re working on. A covered porch with cedar shingles on the roof and all the gables of the house.

I went back to the house on the hill and set the super joist rafters, they had to be packed both sides with plywood and ended up being a lot heavier than the framer anticipated

 

[Tradesman]

A beautiful Friday morning waiting on the contractor to show up. The wind is supposed to get up and I’d like to have these 60 ft trusses up before it does

 

[Natman]

Hope you're charging wait time! Your Canadian contractors are oddly similar to the ones here in Idaho.

 

[Tradesman]

View attachment 206740 A beautiful Friday morning waiting on the contractor to show up. The wind is supposed to get up and I’d like to have these 60 ft trusses up before it does

Oh ya from the time my shop door opens till it closes or till I’m sitting on the next job

 

[Tradesman]

A little crane porn! I spent New Year’s Day, washing, undercoating, and waxing. The sad part is today I was out on slushy roads and am dirty again. The middle picture got out of order, in it I am setting a HVAC unit across the road from the store that my wife works in.

 

[crane operator]

Looks a lot better than the last manitex picture I saw:

 

[Tradesman]

Looks a lot better than the last manitex picture I saw:

Yes I saw that as well, I was waiting for all the regular jack a$$es to say how another tree outsmarted a crane operator

 

[The Peej]

Yes I saw that as well, I was waiting for all the regular jack a$$es to say how another tree outsmarted a crane operator

Does anyone know the story?

 

[crane operator]

Does anyone know the story?

Too much tree, too far away, and probably soft ground too. At least no one got hurt.

Tree work is some of the most difficult work you can do with a crane. No one wants a huge crane on their driveway, and that expense, but they want a huge tree taken out, on the other side of the house.

 

[kshansen]

Too much tree, too far away, and probably soft ground too. At least no one got hurt.

Tree work is some of the most difficult work you can do with a crane. No one wants a huge crane on their driveway, and that expense, but they want a huge tree taken out, on the other side of the house.

Think the way to remove a tree would be to do it opposite to the way it got there and that big.

Start from the top down not the bottom up. Might take a bit longer but safer over all. Kind of the Johnny Cash method:

That said the last tree I took down was maybe 20 feet from power lines and at least twice that tall. Not a lot of branches and I had plenty of room in all other directions and a good solid tree to hook a cable to and put lots of tension on it to encourage it to go where I wanted it to land.

Power line still up and tree is cut split and stacked in wood shed!

 

[Natman]

Though I do keep my National in a heated building, it has no floor drains, and I am loath to just let any wash water run out the door, to seep into the gravel outside. Reason being, I have set septic tanks for buildings in my area, needed as a "grease settling tank", or words to that effect, as part of a near 10 K system to tie into the city sewer system. One of my past customers let it slip to the P & Z people, while applying for his building permit, that the building was going to be for storing his large, bus sized, motor home in, and maybe they asked him if he'd be washing it in there, next thing you know, and 10 K later, he was able to (legally) do so! I use the car/truck wash, and spend about 6 bucks in quarters, a couple of times a winter. The rest of the time, it looks like crap, but all vehicles here do in the winter time. Just be aware, washing heavy equipment may require more then just a standard tie in to a sewer line, less said the better. The commercial high pressure car washes have already jumped thru all those regulatory hoops, and i don't mind giving them a pocket of quarters to keep the P & Z types off my butt.

It may be even more of a regulatory nightmare, if on a private septic system, if the wrong agency knows about it!

 

[Tradesman]

Though I do keep my National in a heated building, it has no floor drains, and I am loath to just let any wash water run out the door, to seep into the gravel outside. Reason being, I have set septic tanks for buildings in my area, needed as a "grease settling tank", or words to that effect, as part of a near 10 K system to tie into the city sewer system. One of my past customers let it slip to the P & Z people, while applying for his building permit, that the building was going to be for storing his large, bus sized, motor home in, and maybe they asked him if he'd be washing it in there, next thing you know, and 10 K later, he was able to (legally) do so! I use the car/truck wash, and spend about 6 bucks in quarters, a couple of times a winter. The rest of the time, it looks like crap, but all vehicles here do in the winter time. Just be aware, washing heavy equipment may require more then just a standard tie in to a sewer line, less said the better. The commercial high pressure car washes have already jumped thru all those regulatory hoops, and i don't mind giving them a pocket of quarters to keep the P & Z types off my butt.

It may be even more of a regulatory nightmare, if on a private septic system, if the wrong agency knows about it!

I hear you, I wash on the downhill side of a gravel driveway that runs down beside the barn then onto a concrete pad that holds my manure pile.

 

[Natman]

Perfect!
My yard is in town, right on a main drag that just happens to be about 1/2 mile down from the county P&Z offices, so I go out of my way to keep a low profile and not rock the boat. I do any needed maintenance inside, with the door closed. No signage on the building, nothing going on here!

 

[Tradesman]

this dust collector is only 7,000 lbs.
when I was fine tuning the radius looking up at those slow moving wispy clouds I got that split second feeling it was coming over on me. Gets your heart going. Lol

 

[mitch504]

this dust collector is only 7,000 lbs.
when I was fine tuning the radius looking up at those slow moving wispy clouds I got that split second feeling it was coming over on me. Gets your heart going. Lol
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Yep, but there are more pleasant ways to experience excitement

 

[Tradesman]