Work Photos

[Steve Connally]

Climbing dead trees is my true passion.. /sarcasm

I don't know why I always find the ones that no mechanical can reach.


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I'd have to pass on those. I just don't have that kind of experience.

 

[RopeShield]

Big pines
High throw
Dead top
Glory shot

 

[RopeShield]

Nother

 

[Sgriff]

Dayum Levi,you really turnt it up with this thread [emoji106][emoji869][emoji109][emoji43]

 

[ROYCE]

Getting our new crane plenty of action!! I sold all these jobs before I had the crane. I looked at them and thought, no problem I am going to own a crane. It's amazing how far 75 feet actually is when your sitting in the crane. It doesn't look far from when your selling the job. I bring a tap measure with me for every job now. We got then done with no problem. Two of the jobs had very little landing room for the picks. But my great ground man made it work.

 

[NE Tree]

Getting our new crane plenty of action!! I sold all these jobs before I had the crane. I looked at them and thought, no problem I am going to own a crane. It's amazing how far 75 feet actually is when your sitting in the crane. It doesn't look far from when your selling the job. I bring a tap measure with me for every job now. We got then done with no problem. Two of the jobs had very little landing room for the picks. But my great ground man made it work.

Nice pics Royce

 

[Magnum783]

I can see the grin on your face in every photo. It's priceless. I am sure you are one proud crane owner and the real question is do you want a bigger one yet!

 

[ROYCE]

I can see the grin on your face in every photo. It's priceless. I am sure you are one proud crane owner and the real question is do you want a bigger one yet!

Ha, yes I do want a bigger one. Not to have more live boom or anything. But it would be nice to be good for more weight at around 70 feet. It would be nice to be able to pick around 3K or 3.5K at 70 feet. I am good for 2300 at 70 feet. Which is fine, I just find that I use all of the 2300. What I am finding is that if you can get your crane just a little closer it makes a huge difference. 10-15 feet closer can be a lot more capacity.

 

[ROYCE]

Nice crane Royce, and photos.

Are you getting the operator's belly yet?

Not yet, but I find that I really want to climb and not be in the crane everyday. I look at the trees and think "man, I want to be up there, and not sitting down here" Its hard to watch the climber when that is what I have done for the last 12 years or so.
I tend to snack in the crane though. Its only a matter of time.

 

[Hoowasat]

Don't let it happen, hire an operator who already has the belly! That way you know he's well seasoned

I like the fact that a CLIMBER is operating the crane. Who else understands better what the guy hanging on his hook needs?

 

[ROYCE]

Don't let it happen, hire an operator who already has the belly! That way you know he's well seasoned

So this crane is a swing cab. You can swing it left and right and then you have a foot brake to slow you down. Well, with the boom in the air sometime the wind will swing the cab. So you have this park brake your suppose to engage every time you leave the cab. If you try to leave the cab and you have not engaged the park brake a very loud horn will go off. It seances the weight on the seat. So your ass comes up and off goes the horn. Well throughout the day I am constantly sounding that horn because I don't weight enough to really put a ton of pressure on the seat. Must be like 20 times a day the guys look at me like why is he sounding that horn. The crane is asking me to gain 20 more pounds to safely be able to operate it!!!

 

[ROYCE]

I like the fact that a CLIMBER is operating the crane. Who else understands better what the guy hanging on his hook needs?

That is a good point. I find that my climbing experience has made me a pretty good operator because I know what the climber is going through.

 

[ROYCE]

HAhahha, that's hilarious! your too thin to operate, you'd better eat up, a fat operator may be part of the counterweight design

Thats what I am thinking. I am going to send the guy to get me pizza for lunch everyday this next week. Oh, and dunkin donuts for breakfast! I need to be a safe crane operator, that means another 10 pounds.

 

[Drewtree]

 

[Hoowasat]

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Nice, but a wee-bit too big for tree work. Ya' need another crane just for set-up & tear-down.

 

[Drewtree]

Nice, but a wee-bit too big for tree work. Ya' need another crane just for set-up & tear-down.

Funny enough, I managed to get one pick out of that crane while it was on site. The word "overkill" comes to mind.

 

[NE Tree]

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Geez, how fat does the operator have to be to run that crane?

 

[Jeff]

Funny enough, I managed to get one pick out of that crane while it was on site.

PLEASE tell me you have a photo of that (1000 ton?) monster picking your iddy bitty tree at a 400' radius?!?

 

[Hoowasat]

Funny enough, I managed to get one pick out of that crane while it was on site. The word "overkill" comes to mind.

Please tell me that the one pick consumed the entire tree.

 

[Drewtree]

Please tell me that the one pick consumed the entire tree.

I was in the tree for the pick and it was only one cut for the canopy, I have a pic somewhere, I will dig it up. It was absurd.