Custom boom truck with aluminum body.

Thats the problem with high quality, high visual appeal equipment, employees don't give a care, it ain't their monthly payment.

If I bought a truck like that, I'd have to hire someone to manage my business, 'cause I'd be the only one allowed to break it.
 
Gus, did Eloquip make that body? They made my little chip box, good bunch of skilled guys there.

Now the real question, what's it take to own a truck like that?
 
nice rig! it reminds me of my first knuckleboom. it was a used hiab 300-5 w/ fly jib 3. it had 92' vert 82' radius and only picked up 840 lbs. that radius. man basket worked great at that radius but you can't find any tree/crane picks that weigh 800lbs. in general i find anything less than 1700 lbs. hard to come by. well set-up rig gus thanks for the photos!
 
Thanks for the kind words guys.

For the most part if your looking at "Long reach" applications the only way to get it is with a flyjib in which case I would recommend a main turret rated at 32 ton/meter and up as Mike Poor pretty much said above. Mikes truck and Effer Boom at 35 t/m is a very good compromise between lifting capacity and boom weight so you can actually have a descent/legal payload and still have a boom with enough grunt to get bigger jobs done. The boom you see on my customers truck at a 77ft load radius ( completely extended horizontal ) holds 700 lbs, and at 60 ft complete horizontal reach holds 1,000 lbs. If the main boom is in the air 66 ft and the flyjib is extended out horizontally 28 feet the boom will comfortably hold a pick of 1,800 lbs. As the boom and jib become more vertical the lifting capacity (as you guys already know) increases exponentially. This boom was the right fit for my customers needs but no two customers are ever the same.

Like with anything in life, bigger and better adds to the price. So my advise is before you shop for a boom truck know exactly what your majority of picks weigh and at the various heights you work within so you are looking at the right boom for your companies particular needs and never leave yourself anything less then 3 months to build a truck. The boom you may need won't necessarily be in stock and expect a truck chassis shortage for the beginning of 2007 due to the new commercial vehicle emissions laws for North America.
There is no such thing as one boom that can do it all unless you move up to the 60+ ton/meter range and we're talking big $$$$$$$$$.

Mangoes, Eloquip does great work and are one of the only guys in the city but we had this body fabricated in Quebec and it was shipped to us for the install (price was a factor). When the body got here we flew the customer up to inspect it and we still needed to make a couple of minor changes before it was mounted.

Oh....and if you have a good boom operator treat him like gold and give him a few extra dollars pay to keep them around for a long time. When I was an operator my employer wasn't the nicest person around and sometimes you just can't help but take your frustrations out on the equipment (wink). One of the worst things you can do to a boom truck is have multiple operators put their hands on the controls.

If you guys ever need some direction or advice just feel free to ask.

gus@bikboomtrucks.com
 
Don't get me wrong, That truck is sweet looking, but my guys would kick the [what???] out of the aluminum in a week. Not maliciously, but the work we do would spank that thing quick. As I said, that truck is sweet, but not for me. I'm sure the customer who ordered it will love it.

Good looking rig!!!
 
That looks like same sorta design truck we had when I first started doing crane type removals. The knuckle boom is real handy. My guess is that truck is around 350,000 dollars?
 
hey gus i noticed in your last post that you thought my crane was 35 t/m. not trying to be "perschnickedy" but it's actually a 55ton/meter. metric ton rating is much less than standard crane/ton rating that we use in the states mark & mark.
 
Well actually Mike, not to be "perschnickedy" (/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif) but metric ton ratings (t) is actuall stronger than standard ton rating (T) by 200lbs more in a t than a T. For example, a 550 Ton grove is only rated to 450t. Just clarifying the differences between a metric ton and a standard ton, and how they are used.


ton/meter ratings are rated differently than straight boom Ton rating. However, at larger radiuses, the charts come closer together. I believe Mike said his truck can lift 36k lbs (18 Tons) next to the truck, a 40 Ton crane can lift around 40 tons at the same/similar minimum radius.


ton/meter is just like foot/lbs of torque, just a larger scale. Mikes truck being a 55ton/meter class means that at 22.5 meters, it can lift roughly 2 metric tons, (4800 lbs at a touch over 73') however in some instances the weight of the boom can detract from that a bit.
 
hey thanks lumberjack, i always just looked at the max lift and figured my truck rated 55 ton/ meter only lifts 36000 right next to the trk. also nice on that white oak you posted and really cool photos! i liked the big liebher you used! (bigger cranes can make jobs like that much safer) (sorry i didn't comment on that earlier- i've been swamped) great work!
 
So a 550 Ton has the same capacity as a 450 ton. Same capacity, just different way to measure it (Ton (standard) vs. ton (metric).

And a 550 Ton has less capacity than a 550 ton.

But this:

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ton/meter ratings are rated differently than straight boom Ton rating.

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confused me.

Does this mean that metric ton ratings are different from straight, boom Ton ratings 'straight, boom Ton ratings' being what you referred to as standard ton?


This also confused me:

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36k lbs (18 Tons) next to the truck, a 40 Ton crane can lift around 40 tons at the same/similar minimum radius.


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A 40 Ton crane can lift 40 tons--did you mean a 40 Ton crane can lift 40 Tons??

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Re: Metric ton conversion

Thanks Tom. I understand the conversion. What I don't understand is this:


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However, at larger radiuses, the charts come closer together.

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from Lumberjack's post.

The conversion should always be the same regardless of the radius.
 
Mahk,

In all actuality, if I were to put a winch and cable on my boom, it would pick the maximum up off of the truck as a boom crane. It's just that knuckleboom cranes are rated for how they are "conventionally" use, meaning hooking the end of the boom to the object and lifting it, as opposed to standing the boom upright and winching it. Does everyone agree there?

Knucklebooms are rated for picking with the boom at horizontal. When you upright the boom totally, the rating goes way up as common sense will tell you. The load is linear and you no longer fight the weight of your boom. My boom goes from 2000# at horizontal and 4000# at vertical with the same amount of boom out.
 
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