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    Today....

    Got a little red, white, and BLUE on the crane.
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    Today....

    Can't exactly charge more after the bid. We bid it for emergency rates anyway. My guys wanted to work today. I gave them all the option of having the 4th off. We would have been done yesterday if we didnt have to wait over 3 hours for cars to be moved. Then a storm rolled in and we had to call it.
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    We were going to have a light maintenance day monday and maybe take the 4th off. Then we got a tree on an apartment building.
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    79k and change. It's barely shy of 80k. The counterweights and jib add 13k
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    Today....

    Yes. 50 ton wrecker failed to get it out. Had to get a 60 ton rotator and it was still struggling due to the weight. The wrecker outrigger punched through the road.
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    Today....

    Sweat 450! We have an 01 f550 7.3 and an 01 f250 7.3. Both 6 speeds. They have been very good trucks. Hopefully that f550 serves you as well as ours have.
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    Big guys

    We had some here intentionally cut a bunch of trees on state park land for someone's view.
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    When I got stopped the first thing I did was push the suspension up on the downhill side and let it all the way down on the road side. It's got a bit over a foot of wheel travel so that helped. I was afraid of something like that happening.
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    Today....

    Oh she knew she messed up. She gave me the sorry wave.
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    I fully agree. On the other hand, she didn't stop and her carelessness has cost me thousands.
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    This is not where I wanted to have the crane. I had a lady come into my lane head on. I moved over about 6 to 8 inches to avoid hitting her head on and the soft shoulder pulled me into the ditch. The only thing hurt was one brake chamber. So glad I didn't end up on my side and didn't kill the lady.
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    Today....

    Little maple failure today. Landed on the back fence and on the pool fence.
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    Chipper Knife Sharpening?

    A good surface grinder large enough to do knives would start around $30k plus new. Buy a lifetime supply of knives for way less.
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    Today....

    Took down a pine today with our crane. Had to get a bit tight up to the house to get some landing room.
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    Me too. Id probably bring our crane. No kill like overkill
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    Today....

    Took some pines down over a garage.
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    Chipper Knife Sharpening?

    We have done other similar knives in our cnc mill using endmills for hardmilling. I need to build a jig to hold our knives. This is by far the fastest way to do them (2 to 5 minutes of run time). We have a surface grinder in house too but its terribly slow and not automated like our cnc mills...
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    What knot do use with rope slings?

    We use cow hitches and running bowlines when using dead eye crane slings. Very rarely do we just tie the end. So often we half hitch up high and tie the end to bigger wood. Gives a great balance point but still has ahold of the pick if something was to break out. About the only time we just tie...
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    Removing a large portion of the canopy

    Some potential customers arent worth working for. I'm betting you dodged a bullet here. I would guess they would still be unhappy about the situation when any of it ends up in their yard which it would.
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    Today....

    We did two crane jobs yeaterday. The first one we spent some time training a friend of mine's daughter how to install slings. She did excellent.

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