Things done at Work

[Tiny]

The other span was set last Friday set up like this side was , Grove on the abutment and the Demag on the road . Moved the Grove Friday and set it back up for today's work . The Demag had to wait until after 8:00 am This morning and could not start setting beams until 9:00 am per state inspectors instructions .

10 beams total . The Grove could do the whole job from one spot . The Demag could set 5 , Then had to set part of the counterweights off and move ahead for the next 5 . That worked out pretty good . Precast company put 5 trucks in the haul and by the time the 1st truck got back with the second round they only waited on us 5 minutes . The Grove set diaphragms while the Demag moved .

 

[Tiny]

That's some good crane operating. And if they did it with minimal time of road shutdown, damn good operating.

6 minutes from the time traffic was stopped til it was turned loose per beam .

 

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[oldtanker]

They had some quarries like those pictured near Ft Leavenworth KS. I was at Leavenworth in the early 80's......AT, not IN! Almost got reassigned there in 93. When to Ft Riley instead and finished up my career as a platoon Sgt in 1/4th Cav. I was on the ultimate heavy equipment.......M1A1 Tanks! Heavy (70 tons) kinda fast (governed down to 45 MPH) and you could blow stuff up a long range! Plus there were machine guns to play with! All that and a pay check too! Wife always claimed my mistress was a tank!

Tiny really enjoy your pics.

Heavy equipment relocation specialist?????:beatsme Is that a pumped up name for a truck driver??????:beatsme Gotta remember that NASA taught a monkey to fly a rocket with a few lemon drops........ Bet I could toss a pack of life savers in a truck, put the monkey in and he could figure it out himself:drinkup:usa

Rick

 

[dbl612]

They had some quarries like those pictured near Ft Leavenworth KS. I was at Leavenworth in the early 80's......AT, not IN! Almost got reassigned there in 93. When to Ft Riley instead and finished up my career as a platoon Sgt in 1/4th Cav. I was on the ultimate heavy equipment.......M1A1 Tanks! Heavy (70 tons) kinda fast (governed down to 45 MPH) and you could blow stuff up a long range! Plus there were machine guns to play with! All that and a pay check too! Wife always claimed my mistress was a tank!

Tiny really enjoy your pics.

Heavy equipment relocation specialist?????:beatsme Is that a pumped up name for a truck driver??????:beatsme Gotta remember that NASA taught a monkey to fly a rocket with a few lemon drops........ Bet I could toss a pack of life savers in a truck, put the monkey in and he could figure it out himself:drinkup:usa

Rick

most drivers today would have to have someone read the instructions to them on how to open the lifesavers. good truck drivers are priceless! nice pics tiny. as usual a class act.

 

[95zIV]

Heavy equipment relocation specialist?????:beatsme Is that a pumped up name for a truck driver??????:beatsme Gotta remember that NASA taught a monkey to fly a rocket with a few lemon drops........ Bet I could toss a pack of life savers in a truck, put the monkey in and he could figure it out himself:drinkup:usa

Rick

Never thought of that, I wonder if I threw a couple of sealed cups of coffee into one of my trucks if I could get Tiny to learn how to run one of those?

 

[classictruckman]

Boy, you're just a bunch of real nice guys, aren't you

Tiny's pictures are about the only reason I check up on this forum.

 

[biggrader]

Tiny.... Do you feel the LOVE!!!!!!! awesome pics

 

[Tiny]

LOL , At least while your razzin me your leaving the good people alone . Besides if you want , Your can scroll backwards thru the beam pictures and watch the beam being put back on the truck

 

[oldtanker]

LOL , At least while your razzin me your leaving the good people alone . Besides if you want , Your can scroll backwards thru the beam pictures and watch the beam being put back on the truck

Well heck, if you hadn't delivered it to the wrong place they wouldn't have had to reload it

Still great picture Tiny:notworthy

Rick

 

[Andrew_D]

6 minutes from the time traffic was stopped til it was turned loose per beam .

I have no experience with hauling beams, operating cranes or any type of highway/bridge construction, but I'd say 6 minutes is pretty darned good! I wish I was first truck in the line waiting so I could have watched!

Andrew

 

[Tiny]

Wednesday started with "decking" a trailer .

 

[Tiny]

And then I hooked a load of Grove 5150 weights and headed for Ritchie Bros. In Odessa Missouri ,The plan was to load out 3 railroad tampers but that changed to 5 + 3 ballast machines . Made it a long day .

Worked for 3 different outfits before it was over . The long day part came from a 2hr. delay in between trucks showing up and the fact that the last outfit from North Dakota bought two trailers and didn't have any way to hook the hydraulics up .

I told the guy leading the mess that I could move the trailers so the crane could load them . He said "I can't do anything with them . If you can load them it would help us greatly " . So I backed up close , Swung the boom around and picked up the front of the trailer and back under .

Turned into 11 1/2 hrs

 

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[Tiny]

Oldest Son is oiling ..... But can't out run the old man

 

[Tiny]

Today was a bit different . 1st order of the day was to fix a busted door hinge to to office . Got the door down and figured out what I needed then my minor Boss gets a call from the Grove 9000 E crew . They went to Olathe Kansas to set a storm sewer box and Couldn't get close enough to set it .

The 9000 carries all the weight it can but to be street legal it has to leave 24,000 lbs of weight . It should have done the job set as it was but the contractor laid the hole back further than planned . Had to hustle the extra weight out to them .

Box was 40,000 + . Also I hadn't seen one set up with the lugs on the outside like this one .

 

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[Tiny]

I have no experience with hauling beams, operating cranes or any type of highway/bridge construction, but I'd say 6 minutes is pretty darned good! I wish I was first truck in the line waiting so I could have watched!

Andrew

This was about the the quickest one , Sorry about the sad vid quality . I wasn't going to post this but thought it would give an idea time wise .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0w9sJeFJGc