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  1. Courierguy

    crane vs. concrete driveway.

    [ QUOTE ] norm, nice to see an adequate cribbing job done. no span blocking under main outriggers and pads close to 90 degrees to cylinder. (within 10 degrees allowed) good example. for all instances even on concrete or paving dunnage shall be three times area of crane outrigger pads at minimum...
  2. Courierguy

    first tree job with the Manitex 22101S

    I'm still old school, mostly. It never occurred to me to have the sign guy in the bucket truck take a picture and send it to me down in the crane. I'd still prefer going up my self and eyeballing it personal. Frankly, my belief at the time was if that is what they used to set it, ought to be...
  3. Courierguy

    first tree job with the Manitex 22101S

    Yeah, we talked about that, being on the crane I like that better, being in the tree my climber didn't. Well, not for this job anyway, he seemed pretty skilled and open to whatever so we will keep that in mind for the next job, on this one we didn't seem to have a setup where he felt comfortable...
  4. Courierguy

    Hoisting License

    I'm pretty sure I'll be the first to know if I don't feel well. I'm not against it being required BTW, and when it was for me I happily complied, but it ISN'T anymore. Maybe I'm too healthy, if I was more sickly I'd get one again. Other then the sleep apnea, high blood pressure, the heart...
  5. Courierguy

    Easy money

    I didn't know that, the different spec for RR wire rope, which I have. I've been going by the 6 times standard, good to know the difference..
  6. Courierguy

    Easy money

    And then there's this excavator I spotted on a 8800' ridgetop a couple weeks ago, some good scrap metal there also! There is a defunct mining operation a half mile away, it was heading there and never made it.
  7. Courierguy

    Easy money

    [ QUOTE ] I bet that it is worth $4k in scrap... Thats easy money. [/ QUOTE ] Don't think I haven't thought of that, I'll give it another year or so and make my move!
  8. Courierguy

    Easy money

    another pic
  9. Courierguy

    Easy money

    I first landed by this rig some years ago, and it hasn't moved since. I re-visited it yesterday and it always reminds me of something out of a Mad Max movie, the terrain helps the effect, it just looks like a brutal way to make a living! I don't understand the probe in front, maybe he hung rocks...
  10. Courierguy

    Hoisting License

    [ QUOTE ] Physicals are a good idea I think. Who wants to have something go wrong with their body while driving a big truck and have it run wild and kill people because you passed out or died? [/ QUOTE ] I had to get mandated physicals for years as a licensed pilot. For a few years I...
  11. Courierguy

    Hoisting License

    Speaking of the CDL test: I got a letter from the Feds recently, and it turns out that certain big rig drivers DON'T need a medical card! Like tow truck drivers, emergency service,a lot of farm rigs and a bunch of others. In my case "taxi crane service" wasn't specified, but in talking with the...
  12. Courierguy

    first tree job with the Manitex 22101S

    No pics, too lame after some of the ones I've seen here! Next time, and it looks like there will be one.
  13. Courierguy

    first tree job with the Manitex 22101S

    As some may know, I lurk here just for the crane chatter. Crane work (small crane but a crane none the less) is ALL I do. But it seems I accidentally learned a little about crane tree work and my first job went real well. From a strictly crane work POV, tree work is potentially some of the...
  14. Courierguy

    Crane flip in MA

    I was doing some crane in an Idaho Power sub station earlier in the year, and the lineman I was talking to scoffed at the OSHA 25 ft. rule, "we go 3'", he said. I don't have a problem with staying 25' away..... This sounds like maybe some kind of totally unexpected odd ball thing with the...
  15. Courierguy

    Round pads

    I plan to keep using 12" micro lam scraps I get free. 11 7/8" by 1 3/4" thick, and my under frame racks (both sides) are built for the max width I have there, 32". I carry about 24 usually, so total 48. I alternate/log cabin them as I build up lap them over, etc. I also carry some 4' 6 x 12...
  16. Courierguy

    Round pads

    Making plywood pads round, sounds like a lot of wasted plywood. And the scraps left on the ground will be that much less surface area. Now if you were casting brand new ones out of aluminum, round makes sense, as in no waste. But starting with a 4x8 sheet of ply and making circles? And cutting...
  17. Courierguy

    Crane size

    Yeah, lets not forget or ignore the huge difference in utility between a rider and a conventional behind the cab boom truck. My Manitex 22101S has a 360 degree load chart and continuous rotation, and with it's out and down outriggers I can short jack one side if only working the opposite side...
  18. Courierguy

    LMI/ATB Woes

    No interference ever, as far as I know. Yeah you can get boom angle, length, you name it...I figure it's not that much work to look at the gravity powered angle indicator, and my boom is lettered (A,B, etc) as is my load chart. You can set them up to interact without your existing cut outs...
  19. Courierguy

    LMI/ATB Woes

    I went with a Crane Smart wireless ATB on my Manitex 22101S, (the stock LMI was in need of 4K min. of repairs and inoperative when I bought it) that and the wireless load cell and a load chart. My annual crane cert guy says I'm covered with OSHA. When I bought my Terex 3470 brand new it came of...
  20. Courierguy

    Broken construction crane-New York City-Hurricane

    I have heard horror stories about what all it takes to run a crane service in the Big Apple, from a guy who did so for a couple decades. All of the union and big city complications you can imagine, and then triple that and throw in some mob payoffs! That was the impression he gave me anyway...

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