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Just some work pics
Hmm, I had another guy with a tms540 I was talking to before I bought mine and he mentioned that they were electronic over hydraulic. Now I'm curious ill have to do some reading in the service manual to see what they are. Mine was sold as a 99 but had a lower serial number than one i saw... -
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Just some work pics
Looks like a pretty clean 40ton. What year? I ended up buying a tms540. I haven't had a chance to use it much yet but I can see the electronic over hydraulic will take some getting used to. The cable hoist seems real sensitive on a single line. When I test drove it they had the block with 4... -
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Why I hate boom trucks
Such a shame to see such nice boom trucks destroyed. -
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Bobcat S185 intermittent park brake locking up
I have a bobcat s185 that recently has the park brake coming on intermittently while operating. Sometimes it can run for an hour and not do it but sometimes you might go five feet and it locks up and about throws you out of the seat. When it happens the only light that it loses out of the four...- Manistar
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Why I hate boom trucks
Interesting that my spying phone coincidentally suggested a 5 year old Jimmy with To The Top Crane YouTube video with him running their stand up boom truck last night. Their boom truck seemed to be a similar vintage and model to the one I ran and the controls looked identical. Except on the... -
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Why I hate boom trucks
I found a new hate for boom trucks yesterday. "Fixed cab" boom trucks that is. I never realized that in my 20 some years of running cranes and boom trucks I've never operated a fixed cab. I had to set some grain bin rafters the other day and the customer owns a boom truck that was on-site... -
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Equipment to erect 40x80x18 steel building
Owning both cranes and a just a 6000lb 34ft telehandler, if I were going to build a building this size and could only have one on-site it would definitely be the telehandler. They're just more versatile on a jobsite for material handling. After two weeks I wouldn't give the concrete a second... -
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Just some work pics
Looks like the rt650e gives you pretty nice bump in capacity for a similar weight machine. Not sure how often you'll miss the 5' of boom but it seems like it doesn't matter how long it is there's always a situation you wish it was a little longer. -
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Compressed air in the hydraulic tank on Badger 4435-is this normal?
I have a Grove that has air that leaks into the hydraulic system through the swivel. The throttle in the operator cab is controlled with air that runs through a port in the main swivel. It doesn't really cause any problems other than it doesn't hold air pressure in the air system very long and... -
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Just some work pics
It might not be quite as bad as I made it out to be but it has a old Detroit 6-71 and throttling up does help smooth it out but the winch isn't what it once was. Its not stuck in high speed but it does act a little funny when its in high speed its like its fast on the cable up but cable down... -
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Just some work pics
I am trying to update from 1975 haha. I have the dead stick and I'm sure I'll miss it for the 104' main boom but once you swing the jib to 136' its only good for 9500lb which is fine for a leg head section but after about 6500lb the winch gets a little jerky and without a lmi/scale I don't push... -
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Just some work pics
Okay well it looks like it doesn't have it then. Which is kind of disappointing. The ones I'm looking at are the 90' main boom. The 115' main boom makes it a 10ton road minimum where the 90' can strip down to make a 9ton road if needed. The 113' boom setup on my tms300 gets just a little too... -
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Just some work pics
Hey crane operator, on your tms500e does your lmi have a spot in it where you can select over the rear or 360? I went to look at a tms540 today and I only see the 360 charts for the crane. In all of the Grove literature they show it as having over the rear charts so I was just curious if this... -
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Why I hate boom trucks
I know there are people that do it all the time and for John it probably helps that its his own crew cutting the trees. As a construction guy with cranes I've had some tree guys ask if I would do tree work but I ve always turned it down. I just don't trust them even though I probably could I... -
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Why I hate boom trucks
I am an operator and when I think of tree work I think sketchy haha. I think any operator would rather take a load from the ground to the air as opposed to from the air to the ground. When you pick something off the ground if you don't like it you set it back down and re-adjust. When you pick...