Just some work pics

[crane operator]

Big entrance awning, I think this is going to be office or apartments. Ironworkers welded it all up on the slab, and it needed to be at the correct angle after we picked it. I think they spent a week welding it all up.

I think I could have got by with just two chain falls to roll it in the snatch blocks, but I didn't want to have not enough, and have to rerig, and that stupid thing picked perfect. So I guess it wasn't wasted time hanging it all.

 

[crane operator]

Back in the trees. Replaced some HVAC equipment.

 

[crane operator]

Trusses with the mack. Carpenters had everything laying between me and the house.

 

[crane operator]

I can't help on the shudder, but that's a sharp looking truck. A close friend of mine just bought a 2016 F150 yesterday. He doesnt have 100 miles on it yet, but I'll be listening to hear if he reports anything regarding a shudder.

I wasn't really shopping for me, my daughter was in a fender bender and they are totaling her car out (nobody hurt just a lot of quarter panels beat up). A dealer I've dealt with before had this, and we've been going farther and farther all the time, I decided a little newer truck to go look at stuff wouldn't hurt. And I'm not dropping 60-70k on a truck. I gave $22,000 for it. Which I don't know if its too much or too little, but I thought it was fair.

One of my guys has a newer GM and I don't hardly fit in those cabs. And while I like the rams, I'm not sure I need more mopar in my life, and they are spendy used. I still wanted a truck to haul parts around, but I have plenty of other bigger trucks if I need to trailer something, so 1/2 ton is fine for what I need it for. Somehow I've put almost 2,000 miles on it already.

 

[DMiller]

CO, I have pretty well decided once KW is licensed and ready to go, will do away with my old rust ball 3/4t, done me well for 22 years but time to go away. Will likely go to a Half T 6' bed or even a later Exploder or Escape as will only need a hitch for a small trailer as should need any volume will use the Big Wagon.

 

[AzIron]

Not sure what shape your tires are in I had a 3/4 ton that after 60 miles an hour would get a vibration similar to that spent like a month chasing it anyway it took a bolt in the sidewall one day and tires were used up enough replaced them all and no more vibration

 

[Tags]

Good looking truck. Is there any chance the truck has a “sensor package “ on it? That could be a “lane departure” warning going off even though you’re not leaving the lane? A friend has a newer F350 that does it quite frequently. A very light, but noticeable shimmy/vibration in the steering wheel when it thinks you’re doing something you shouldn’t but you aren’t, if that makes any sense?

 

[crane operator]

Its got new goodyear tires, no lane notifications. the vibration is almost more heard than felt. Can't feel it in the steering wheel, or really in the truck- you don't feel it in the floor or seat, it just sounds like going across rumble strip.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Any other ideas from you guys that work on these every day?

There is a TSB for the limited slip chattering, but I don't know that it would do it going in mostly straight lines.

 

[Oxbow]

There is a TSB for the limited slip chattering, but I don't know that it would do it going in mostly straight lines.

We've had to add an additive for that that will smooth them right back out, but I think he said he has the electric locking rear diff on the that, so I don't know if that would have limited slip or not.

 

[Natman]

My least favorite place to find the trusses, close and in line to where they have to go, far away...., and I let them know for next time. I explain how at the end of the job I've had to winch up and down over 1,000 feet, because I was picking close and reaching far, and how much faster and easier it is to put them off to the side if possible. As a former carpenter, I'm always amazed how clueless some crews are, but then I remember what I put the boom truck guys thru back when I was wearing the nail belt!

 

[Impact]

Big entrance awning, I think this is going to be office or apartments. Ironworkers welded it all up on the slab, and it needed to be at the correct angle after we picked it. I think they spent a week welding it all up.

I think I could have got by with just two chain falls to roll it in the snatch blocks, but I didn't want to have not enough, and have to rerig, and that stupid thing picked perfect. So I guess it wasn't wasted time hanging it all.


At least you didn’t have to rent the chain falls

 

[DMiller]

CO, BTW, how many chain falls did you ever manage to untangle from that hoard you purchased??

 

[boaterri]

Back in the trees. Replaced some HVAC equipment.

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Hope you notified the RR that the line would be blocked and they put out the appropriate signals.

 

[crane operator]

Hope you notified the RR that the line would be blocked and they put out the appropriate signals.

Its not that kind of railroad. Its just a loop in a amusement park, narrow gauge. And I did go talk to the boys at their railroad and made sure they weren't making a test run down the tracks that day.

And I did have the chain falls I needed for that job.

I think I ended up with around 30 chain falls out of that tangled mess.

 

[kshansen]

Its not that kind of railroad. Its just a loop in a amusement park, narrow gauge. And I did go talk to the boys at their railroad and made sure they weren't making a test run down the tracks that day.

I kind of thought that was the case as the gauge was small for even a narrow gauge set of tracks!

 

[DMiller]

Park Rails tend to be 18 or 24" ga. Knew the guy that set them up back in the 80s.

 

[petepilot]

Its not that kind of railroad. Its just a loop in a amusement park, narrow gauge. And I did go talk to the boys at their railroad and made sure they weren't making a test run down the tracks that day.

And I did have the chain falls I needed for that job.

I think I ended up with around 30 chain falls out of that tangled mess.

were there any 1ton or 1-1/2 tons in the bunch

 

[crane operator]

were there any 1ton or 1-1/2 tons in the bunch

I think so, I'll have to go look what's there.

 

[skyking1]

that canopy rigging was a work of art
The trusses on your toes, that's a miserable boom show.