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crane operator

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skyking1 said:
A knuckle with a 20' bed would do lots of things for you crane op, including some overhead clearance jobs. You could drive by and set that ramp and all sorts of cribbing. No forklift needed.
Make some modular bases, for example. it would be a base unit with a sling built into it and you could stack cribbing on as needed. Swing it into place in one piece.
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I've looked at a couple knucklebooms. They want big $$ for the big ones. I don't really want a 100' of reach, but it would be nice to have enough capacity to do jib inserts/ offset. Or for setting mats and such. Mounted up, it pushes a truck into $80,000- 200,000 pretty quick. The one's I've come closest to buying were dismounted, and I'd mount it to a truck.
 
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G..G..G..Granville.........!! Fetch your cloth.
If you were to buy a knuckleboom I would suggest to mount it on the rear of the chassis rather than directly behind the cab to get the benefit of a full 360 degrees of operating radius. Most knuckleboom trucks I have seen that are used for mat, etc, placement are set up that way. The downside is that you have to be careful in selecting the chassis length of the truck in order to fit whatever you’re going to carry in the space between the back of the cab and the crane.
 
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Yes and the other thing is you get to dance with your load as you bring it around you. I've done it both ways.
It really is nice to hang a tag line on there with the rear mount, it just gets a little dicey in tight quarters.
As far as the spend, you just have to back off from the ultimate knuckle a few models.
It's not like you don't have some other cranes lol.
 
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Ive found 12" wood crane mats work great for setups almost anywhere.I like Knepptunes steel mats,looks like they are built from H pile. A hiab wounld be nice to deliver and handle them,but its another truck.The 910 Cat loader i have with quick change forks bucket and a trailer hitch is my Swiss army knife .I keep an X plate on it so i can drive it to site sometimes.I can unload trucks ,level a crane pad on a rough site,pull stuck things and move the small trailer. I guess the 6 ft jacks are like everything else to with cranes ,more boom ,P3211211.JPGP1010147.JPGmore capacity would always be good but you work with what you have.
 
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Tugger2 said:
Its old and a bit tired but super handy around jobsites . Just made brownie points with my neighbors in our latest snowfall ploughing the road and a few driveways.
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The 910s are sure a nice size little loader just wish they put something other that a 3204 in them... if memory serves me right the 910,D3 and 931 were all made by Mitsubishi in Japan.
 
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In the interest of full disclosure those ramps were owned, delivered, and set in place before the crane ever got to the river. How they got them in place I don’t know and didn’t ask. I set the crane up on the nice level spot, broke the crane down when I was done and drove away.

It was for a boat show they do every year. I’m sure the ramps were cheaper than paying crane companies to fight the slope every year.
 
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Sewer lift station down a nasty spot. We transferred the boxes from semi's to my straight trucks. Truck drivers were a little hurt they didn't get to go to the hole location, until I mentioned that I really didn't want to go there in a straight truck, let alone get a semi in there.

It was the base section at 11'x14' and then the wall section. We'll have to come back later and set the lid when they get done with the plumbing.

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Who's too lazy to swing jib? Its me that's who....

In my defense - with the trees there really wasn't room to swing jib, and it was only the first couple they had to push to set. They're up. Had a quality path through the trees to the house also. Was a little tight in spots with the crane.


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After the house down through the trees, I had to go set these. We didn't get started until after 2:00, I had the amish boys moving, good thing it stays light a little longer now. They had a lot of help, and didn't mind me being into the throttle. Two hours later I was headed for the shop. IMG_5214 1.jpgIMG_5215 1.jpgIMG_5216 1.jpg
 
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Spotted this nifty custom fuel tank, one of my customers had.

And I hate this tread pattern of tire. It seems to pick up our specific rock size, and then they get locked in, and just drill right into the tires.

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We've had quite the weather swings. Got pretty cold and froze the lake. Then bad fog for a week while it was warming up. Had the plow on the old ford, and then got ice instead of snow.

Been high 60's and low 70's here last week though. IMG_5187 1.jpgIMG_5188 1.jpgIMG_5189 1.jpgIMG_5184.JPG
 
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Left the western star in a parking lot, and evidently someone swung by a little close. Its not the first time its been bent.

One of the guys put jib on in a bad spot in the trees. He didn't get cabled down far enough before reeling up main line. I got this straightened out, unfortunately, the brake pack is leaking on that winch also, which I didn't get fixed.

Funny story- took one of the link belts out to set some units the other day, and it had the funniest smell, only when I would brake? It was like the drivers side steer shoes had something horribly nasty on them, but it didn't really smell like brakes.

Well it wasn't brakes, one of the guys ties his lunchbox on, and it was laying loose, so when I would slow down, it would lay up against the exhaust, and the wind would flip it off when I would take back off. Cheap bungie bites the dust.



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In other news, I just sold two cranes, a 40 ton RT grove and a old 25 ton grove truck crane. Same buyer for both. We were still using the rt all the time, but the truck crane hasn't left my yard in a couple years.

I was going to buy a replacement RT right away, but the buyer only gave me a deposit, and would pay the rest in a month on possession. I told the guys, that I really expected the sale not to go through. But he showed up this week with a check for the full amount, so I guess they are going down the road. They are headed to Louisiana.

I've already replaced the truck crane with newer models, but I will need to replace the RT. We don't use it a lot, but it works great on longer term jobs, or if its a mudhole jobsite. So I'm RT shopping. I'd like to stay around the same size, because I don't want to haul any larger of a crane in the places we go.
 
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