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  1. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    It came with the dunnage racks (stainless steel framed, that's also stainless making up the bed siderails, the underbed framing, and the rear custom bumper, all stainless steel with stainless bolts! Those are my aluminum sideboards I kept off the Manitex. The first one dropped into the side...
  2. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    I am comfortable now, after a very busy two work weeks on a wide variety of jobs immediately after buying this rig, with the new to me outrigger pads. I am still using my old system of 12" micro lam (may be called LVL in your area, the laminated heavy plywood beams they use for headers in...
  3. Courierguy

    lmi cable

    Good find pctree, please post a picture of the tag. That price is more like it. Having a full reel on hand would take much of the aggravation out of it next time. My friend in AZ who now has 2 Manitex 22101's (one being my old one) was crying and moaning over that cable the other day, he'd...
  4. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    and for the first time left the pads on while driving and didn't use any dunnage under them on the asphalt street. Leaving them on while driving is OK it seems, as long as you're not doing even mild boondocking. I don't believe I'll get in the habit of leaving them on, they are not that hard to...
  5. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    It would have been very difficult, even if I had the reach and capacity (which I didn't) to do that grain mill job with the Manitex. I had all kinds of obstacles to work around, it was breezy at least up high, and the background noise made it impossible to get an aural clues from the crane...
  6. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    Got to/had to use the jib today, both of them. 160' at the tip, working at a grain mill hoisting up roofing material. Spent 6 hours and never got below 74 degrees boom angle. Every pick took almost all the boom extension I had, though usually just a couple feet shy of 110' plus the 44' jib...
  7. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    Talked to the Nat rep today: when using the remote the glide swing is negated, unless you command a rotation it is braked. that makes sense, more sense then a little foot pedal on the remote. Backed out of my driveway today (in 6" of spring snow) and got out and turned the beeper defeat back...
  8. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    OK, I'm getting used to the glide swing feature, working today in 30 mph gusts (setting a 9500 lb. irrigation pump system, the perfect job for a windy day), and already would find it hard to go back to not having the feature. It is so easy to come to a gentle stop after rotating, without the...
  9. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    Good deal, glad it arrived OK. I looked behind the seat of the National today for the first time, and down on the floor they have the same exact heater. In fact, the only familiar thing I saw while getting squared away by the seller, was the heater control! As tight as the cab is on this thing...
  10. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    I hate/love the horn honking feature that sounds off the second you lift off the operator seat, WITHOUT pushing the switch that locks the boom rotation and defeats the crane controls (so the boom doesn't swing of course, and also all the controls go dead so no worries about bumping one getting...
  11. Courierguy

    National 13110a, new to me

    It's sitting in my crane yard, after a 1600 miles uneventful drive back. I am new to the type of outrigger pads it has, those big aluminum ones that pin on after the outriggers are extended. My Manitex had those small round steel ones, obviously meant to be used with dunnage to get a decent...
  12. Courierguy

    Manitex 22101S FOR SALE

    Turns out I'm flying commercial to get there. So plenty of room and payload for the basket, I'll hang on to it.
  13. Courierguy

    Manitex 22101S FOR SALE

    Anybody need a 2 person manbasket? If I drive to Wisconsin to pick up the new/used National, I won't have room and possibly will be overweight, by the time I load the car onboard. It does not pin to the boom, it is the suspended type. It has the built in test weights, and needed rigging. You...
  14. Courierguy

    lmi cable

    BTW pctree, that Espar heater I mentioned I had did get sold to another member here. Just letting you know as you had asked about it (and any others that may have been interested, it's shipped). Back to your lmi cable: I had a constant battle with mine on two Terex 3470's, it was like a...
  15. Courierguy

    lmi cable

    My buddy who's buying my 22101S just went through this, he's a real good scrounger and he could not find a source other then the crane parts outlets.
  16. Courierguy

    Manitex 22101S FOR SALE

    Don't know if it has free swing, hope so but if not that's OK as I have never had it before and don't know what I'm missing! The man basket comes with it, not for tree work other then a piss elm that needs to come down in my crane yard. In the past I have not had much call for a man basket...
  17. Courierguy

    Manitex 22101S FOR SALE

    Thanks for the input. I wasn't looking forward to learning about DEF fluid, and having to deal with it, now I won't. The owner's business background/trade and the pre emission engine were huge selling points. So many of the machines I tracked down (after giving up on a new one, long story...
  18. Courierguy

    Manitex 22101S FOR SALE

    It looks like a National 13110a (30 ton 110' of boom, 44' of jib) is going to be my next rig. I found a 2006 with 1500 hrs and 45 K miles, bought new by the same guy who's selling it, kept inside between uses, only set trusses once, NEVER rented out, "clean, one owner". He's owns a metal fab...
  19. Courierguy

    Today's Job

    I hear that, I gave up on being cheapest long ago, that just attracts the nickel and dimers, and the guys who don't pay at all. And yes, your K boom would have been just the thing for that generator move under the power lines! Another real busy week so far, setting and pulling municipal water...
  20. Courierguy

    Today's Job

    Keeping in mind Idaho's per-capita income is only 78% of the national average, and 44% of the wages earners make only minimum wage (!!), and the average wage is only 34% of the national average, I am happy to be able to charge 95 an hour to my local customers. Out of towners, from the big cities...

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