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    Lanyard setups for bucket truck use

    OSHA violation to be in a bucket without a fall protection harness, and the TM does not count as a fall protection harness. Needs to be dorsal attachment specifically. I'll have to do some digging to find the article I'm thinking about, but a while back I read an article in a concrete...
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    who carries a knife into the tree?

    Speaking as to the knife with marlinspike, the best I've found is the AG Russell SeaMaster. It's made for them by fox cutlery, but appears to be out of production at the moment. Barring that, I've been decently surprised by both Camilus' $35 marlin spike w blade as well as the "Fury Tactical...
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    Japanese ninja style tree spikes

    $3000 for a set of spikes? Wow, just wow. They look pretty impressive, but looks aren't everything. I'd like to see some videos of the hurse in use.
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    Business move advise wanted.

    I have a little experience with Woodmizers, if it's non-hydraulic without wheels, it's most likely a LT15. Starting price new, $7000 with a 19 hp gas motor. Possibility it's a LT10, but in my experience they don't sell well, kind of underpowered at 10hp. There's also a chance it could be a...
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    CRANE!! AM I DREAMING?

    Here's a set of docs for the 635E, http://www.bigge.com/crane-charts/Grove-RT635C.pdf Pretty similar load chart to the smaller 422. More capacity, but again when you get about half the boom length from the chassis it drops severely.
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    CRANE!! AM I DREAMING?

    Royce, that looks like a Grove AT400 series. Should have @ 70 ft on the boom and @ 25 ft on the jib. Not a bad little buggy, just watch the load chart and distance from center, it's capacity really goes down fast as you get further from the chassis...
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    Estimating Large Jobs! Whats your trick?

    Royce, what's the winch you're putting on the tractor? Logging winch like a Farmi or Uniforest? Spent a bit of time using a Farmi myself. I much prefer having the electronic remote for ease of use. The rope activated clutch models aren't bad if you're working as a team, with one person in...
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    The Vertical Test Environment

    If you're looking for a jib arm on top, there's a ton of manufacturers out there. Gorbel TetherTrack is the one I've used before. Helped install a system at a milk plant for truck inspection. As long as the tower is made strong enough, there shouldn't be any issue mounting jibs. I'd even...
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    Bar oil dispensers?

    I love the idea of a pneumatic dispenser, I'll never go back to a normal caulking gun after using a pneumatic while insulating the basement. Quick googling doesn't find anything in the gallon range dedicated for oil, though there are some glue pots for furniture manufacturers that would suit...
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    Bar oil dispensers?

    Are you looking for a tailgate solution or an in-tree fill? If you're just looking for something for in the truck that'll go on a normal 1 gallon bottle of bar oil, check out this one. 1 oz per pump, so I'd probably write the tank capacity next to the fill cap...
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    Massively Stupid Move

    I always cringe when I see an excavator making the final "cut" when notching down a smokestack or silo. I've taken down a ton of old silos, grandpa taught me how to drop the first one when I was 11 or 12. Pretty simple method, works by hand or with machinery. We'd notch the bottom of the...
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    Government auctions/surplus buying

    I've been involved in auctions a bit, been following muni auctions here in WI for a while. Haven't bought too many vehicles, none that I've actually kept. Favors to friends and the like. As far as used municipal vehicles, in my experience, they usually tend to be in decent shape. Most...
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    102' lift...only $8k

    It's kind of surprising how often I see fire trucks up for auction. Here's one I saw the other day, ends tomorrow and the bid is only up to 16k. I like the basket on the one you posted better, but the price is much nicer on this one. http://www.maxanet.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?rlust32/6618
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    Grapple with this

    Totally forgot to post here when I got mine. Definitely works as advertised. I find the steel version better than the plastic one, there just isn't enough weight on the plastic version to always trigger the claws. I haven't had a chance to really put it to a real world test, but my son has...
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    Almost taken down by a thorn!

    TimBr, I have a friend who's excessively into archery who is planning on recreating the mongol shirt experiment with ballistics gel dummies. One of the things he's been trying to find is a source for what he calls "work silk". Basically it's more along the thickness and weight of a nice...
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    Crane Rules...

    The live boom bit made me scratch my head a little bit. Apparently it's a term specific to crawler cranes and some models of heavy lift crane. On a crawler the gantry is the set of reeving on or above the counterweight. The gantry and it's reeving are what lift the main boom, rather than a...
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    YoYo Man...we need your help...

    The weight limitations might make it a little hard to put any sort of saw on a flying drone. Most drones operate along a fine line balancing performance/weight/flight time. My 1st gen phantom started getting flight issues when I hung a second gopro from it. Not inconceivable to over-power a...
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    Deep and dark...

    I know the video you're talking about. The one made for The Online Engineer. tOLE has tried to get it taken down, but it's made it's way to youtube and other video sites. Narrator is full o poo. NATE(National Association of Tower Erectors) has been trying to get rid of that video for a long...
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    quick and might MA system

    Nice little device, not too bad price-wise either. Works out to about $80 US.
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    Albuquerque disaster

    Here's an article with a pic. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3806722.shtml#.VXb7ZM9VhBc I don't even like driving a manlift off of the trailer in it's stowed position, can't imagine raising one.

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