I am finding that I can sub just me, my crane, and my climber out to other companies for a hourly rate and have a good profit margin. Let them handle the ground work and we just do our thing. I get to work with my climber who we are in sync as we have been working together for a.few years...
I often pick all the tops and remove the jib on my 22 ton before picking the buts. Lot better chart. That 50' radius deal is the curse of the boom truck where the difference between a real crane and a boom truck show up. I almost bought a altec 38-127 but the chart around 80' was...
Are you deducting the weight of your ball in your figuring? Net weight vs gross weight . your load chart is in 2 parts. Above a bold line or below. Or shaded or non. This separates structural failure vs tipping over. I will snap a picture of the pads I made 3x3 that consists of 2 layers of...
No gaps, especially if your useing pt pine and not oak or a good hardwood. Pretty sure the book wants 1 percent of being level on the floats. The pic where you dug out the ground and it looks perfect is fine. The other one looks half on half off the driveway crooked, spanblocked and sketchy...
Royce, take a little time and get your dunnage level, and dont spanblock like that. Boom trucks use that extra wide spread instead of counter weight and puts a lot more leverage on your cribbing, you will spit it out from under the float like that
Mine got noisey and it turned out all the teeth were gone off 1 of the fibre disks. What engine you have? The pilot bearings are known for wobbing out the flywheels on the deers causing alignment issues. Foley engines in worster mass has everything you need in stock way cheaper than...
Rear mount, out and downs, 118'. Not sure of jlg reputation or what the chart looks like but thats a sweet setup.i wonder what engine it has? You should check that one out for sure royce. Hell a new chipper cost more than 65k
Only TE="ROYCE, post: 465081, member: 1723"]That is my thought. Just trying to decide if that is the right size for me or not. The price seams to be real nice on those for me at this time.
Do you have alot of hills where you are? I think the road transportation of that rt would be the downfall...
Ive been running my grove td522 for about 5 years. 70' main 23' jib and it was a game changer for my company. With the right support equipment you could probably do 2 of those bucket truck jobs a day. My only complaints are putting the jib on almost every day and my cranes called a neckbreaker.
Im getting on a plane to go check out and hopefully drive home a big bucket truck this week. Its got a 80' hi ranger cable style boom on it. I have read these booms are good and they built them the same for a long time but im wondering what things to look for. I know the main cable needs to...