What do you do if you drop a small tool into the area around the winch drum?

[mitch504]

Talking about the guy running down the boom, I once saw a guy walk a 4" hawser from barge to tug! In the ocean! He was fired when we got back to the dock!

 

[DMiller]

Have found enough odds and ends tools in Refers belly pans, old truck and tractor hidey holes to stock a house box for the little woman to destroy stuff with. Even found a 2 D Cell Maglight in the flywheel housing of a Mercedes engine in a Carrier Transicold unit, was not destroyed where sent it in for refurb, got a new one back FREE. Owner Operator thought engine was knocking, light was just moving around.

 

[Shimmy1]

We went up in a 3 ton bucket truck that could only be operated from the truck.

How were you planning on getting down when finished??

 

[RZucker]

I ran cheap tools, working in the elements can be hard on stuff, kept the good ones in the shop.
Set of cheap china wrenches, need to bend one or loose one, can replace the whole set for less money then buying a single snapon.

Honestly, are you going to spend a couple of hours dropping the belly pan on a D8 to rescue a 9/16 wrench or just go to the store and spend $13 bucks for a new one.

I dropped a 9/16" wrench in the frame rail of a Wabco scraper once while replacing a generator and could not retrieve it. Two years later I got to pull the transmission for a rebuild and remembered the wrench, with the trans out I could reach right in and grab it.
Got it back just in time to replace it's replacement that I lost.

 

[Welder Dave]

How were you planning on getting down when finished??

Someone was coming to let us down but no one was around when the wrench fell. I would have waited but the laborer was a little impatient. He didn't even wait 5 minutes to see if someone came outside.

 

[Vetech63]

I have rigged up some pretty unique magnet set ups over the years. If I can’t retrieve my wrench/socket/screwdriver/ratchet with any of my custom set ups.......I amazingly don’t need that tool any longer!

 

[tractormech]

I worked on some old Detroits in boats with nasty bilges. I had plenty of 9/16 and 5/8 wrenches and sockets after you clean the bilge.

 

[Shimmy1]

I worked on some old Detroits in boats with nasty bilges. I had plenty of 9/16 and 5/8 wrenches and sockets after you clean the bilge.

Today, with this metric $hit, you'd probably have a lifetime supply of 15 and 18s.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Lol. thanks for the entertaining answers. I guess i can make my models a little more realistic by taking a drill to the bottom of the model? I do

Not also to mention the fact that unwinding the "rope" on the model a lot of times causing the rope to jump off the pulleys....lolll..

Belts use pulleys. Cranes use sheaves.

 

[Welder Dave]

What's worse is when the news says the flags are flying at half mast and they show a building. A mast is on a ship. It should be half staff unless it's on a ship.

 

[Tugger2]

The only bonus you got if you were the first one into the bilge of a dozer boat on an engine change was a few decent tools. Still didnt make up for the blackness.
As for hiding things inside frames ect,we used to have a bucket of balls from a big rotec off a burnt grapple yarder . As devious shop guys we would throw a couple inside things we built out of hollow structural tubing. A push off frame for a 980 to dump logs was one that got the WTF was that .

 

[wornout wrench]

The only bonus you got if you were the first one into the bilge of a dozer boat on an engine change was a few decent tools. Still didnt make up for the blackness.
As for hiding things inside frames ect,we used to have a bucket of balls from a big rotec off a burnt grapple yarder . As devious shop guys we would throw a couple inside things we built out of hollow structural tubing. A push off frame for a 980 to dump logs was one that got the WTF was that .

I don't care what anyone says, that is funny.

Note to self, never get together with Tugger, we would make a bad team

 

[wildpig1234]

Here's my cranes. A tadano atf400 and liebherr hs 855. a bolt has been dropped accidentally into the winch area by a worker. unfortunately the bolt is made of brass so that worker will now have to go down into there to get it as a magnet fishing line wont pick up a brass bolt....lol...

 

[wornout wrench]

Oh the horror.

Nice job on those models.

So now just imagine, in real life. Me, 5'9", 200+ pounds of solid muscle (errrr, just a little white lie) having to squeeze my largeness down between those 2 drums, twist around a couple of shafts and work on the travel down drive on a mechanical machine.

I'm referring to a Madill 044. Google one and look at the images.

Just imagine me stuffed down in that hole for a few days and now you know why I refer to myself as the wornout wrench.

Hey Donkey Doctor, if your out there care to confirm

 

[Welder Dave]

Really long tweezers.

 

[wildpig1234]

Oh the horror.

Nice job on those models.

So now just imagine, in real life. Me, 5'9", 200+ pounds of solid muscle (errrr, just a little white lie) having to squeeze my largeness down between those 2 drums, twist around a couple of shafts and work on the travel down drive on a mechanical machine.

I'm referring to a Madill 044. Google one and look at the images.

Just imagine me stuffed down in that hole for a few days and now you know why I refer to myself as the wornout wrench.

Hey Donkey Doctor, if your out there care to confirm

That Madill is smaller than the HS 855. not much room ;(

Really long tweezers.

lol.. that would translate into a tweezer at least several hundreds lb,,,,

 

[Welder Dave]

Titanium. No one said it would be cheap.

 

[DMiller]

I can Remember the old Friction Americans, Manis and Link Belts, working inside the house trying to retrieve lower drum drive parts? ALWAYS Middle of August and in a Open yard No Shade OR Breeze.

 

[Tinkerer]

Many times I have wrapped a rag around a small diameter piece of tubing and taped it in a shop vac hose to retrieve nuts and bolts.

 

[DMiller]

Duct or Welding tape wad on the end of a broom handle has been my friend a time or two.