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  1. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    Setting trusses today 78' off to the side (exactly my weak area before, not now) I realized at one point that the slight bump I used to get when a 2 or 300 lb. truss touched down (my cue to hold the load/quit winching down) is much harder to discern, it's still there but almost totally gone...
  2. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    After a few busy days now, I'm a little surprised to NOT find it being a PITA to climb around. It does take up some deck space, but so far it's easy enough to go around the other way, or behind it, using the installation lifting pad eyes as hand grips. A friend who helped install it, with his...
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    30 ton National counterweight?

    It felt more stable at 70' then it did at 60' before. I had a chance to play with it today a bit, while waiting on some pipe fitters. No load on the hook but a difference for sure. Plus I gained about 6 sq. ft. of advertising space on the rear end, and am debating on what I'll use it for...
  4. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    I got my counter weight installed today, about a 15 minute job. I'll post a picture and how it changes things in a couple days.
  5. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    The latest addition to the National is working great, I've used it several times and I am glad to have it onboard. The "Trail Viper" is a fat tired folding electric bike, you can pedal along and increase the range, or just use the throttle. I built a aluminum box for it between the Mack cab and...
  6. Courierguy

    Gerasimek's Tree-mek

    Great compact truck, looks like a great setup.
  7. Courierguy

    little battleship rust prevention today

    I do my winch cable once or twice a year, using pretty much the method you describe. I know other guys been doing nothing for years and seem to have no issues either, but they also don't have an operative ATB, any LMI or load chart, don't carry any cribbing (I know when I'm on a truss job...
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    little battleship rust prevention today

    I bought a gallon of WD-40 (probably not the ideal lube, but it was handy) and while someone ran the winch I pretty much got all the cable lubed without too much of a mess, using a small pump spray can. I did keep in mind the part of the cable that gets most of the use, endures the most flexing...
  9. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    I finally heard back from the Boise area National rep, he says he can get the counterweight for a couple hundred bucks cheaper, and if he pays the freight to get it to Boise I'll just drive over (clear across the state but still just one day there and back) and save even more. He went on to make...
  10. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    The National also has a blank space on the cab panel labeled "remote", but my understanding is this doesn't change the fact that once the hydraulic system is modded for the remote, the free swing feature is lost. db1612 I see the rear of the Granite cab has two big air bag looking things...
  11. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    I get a lot of solar modules via the freight lines, and compared to shipping them the counterweight will be somewhat less worry some, but yeah, they could screw up a wet dream. I have backed off on the remote option since I found it means losing the free swing feature. I haven't had a single...
  12. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    Amazing, I just got a call back from CRW, the counterweight IS readily available, one phone call to National and a few minutes was all it took I was told! That and a couple weeks of calling around on my part. $3550.00, a lot for a chunk of metal less then 2000 lbs (he was unsure of the exact...
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    30 ton National counterweight?

    Yeah, it was easier them trying to get one ready made and then modify it to fit. I had to notch out one end for the exhaust elbow and a couple other things. By notching I was able to offset it to the pass. side more and maintain my access to the truck cab when I step off the crane bed. I don't...
  14. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    I called Kirby -Smith, and they have sold that 30 ton. Not surprised, that looked like a pretty sweet deal. So, no help from them. Then I got ahold of CRW and talked to a sales guy about the new 30 ton they have, and found out something interesting. He said the counter weight was a cost saving...
  15. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    While I've been waiting to hear back from someone about the counterweight, I got involved in another mod to the 30110a, sort of, actually more to the Mack carrier. It took longer then I thought, and cost more, but it came out pretty good I think. It will have no effect on the crane operation...
  16. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    I was thinking, using the usual crane part cost adjustment factor of a few hundred percent more expensive then it should be, about 10 K for the weight AND the re programming. I'd build my own, doing it for less then $1000.00 would be real easy, probably more like $500.00 at most, just some...
  17. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    After contacting two different National dealers, still no call back from either, after two weeks, as to how to get a counterweight for my 1300 series. I am still pursuing the option, but it seems odd it's this difficult to get any good info. Anyone have a good connection for National, someone...
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    Hidden Septic

    No way could I haul all that steel plate around all the time just in case, and still make it through the weigh station. As an alternative I carry enough 6' 6 x 12's that I can lay at a right angle over my usual dunnage, and in effect have a pad bearing area of 3' by 6', while still be able to...
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    Hidden Septic

    I just finished up a 2 week job lifting logs on a big custom log home. One of my rear outriggers was near a yet uncovered septic tank, it hadn't been back filled yet. But the line going to the house was, and I could see where it exited the tank and also where it entered the house, and my pad...
  20. Courierguy

    30 ton National counterweight?

    That's some heavy thinking, pun intended. I didn't think of that, interesting. I contacted a National dealer plus asked for copy of the load chart of the one for sale that has the CW, it should make for interesting reading.

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