more fun with knucklebooms

[Tr33Climb3r]

Hey Casey, that looks like a video worthy project. Seems amazing to me you’d have any capacity at all What’s the new Arbsession location look like?

We originally tried to use our loader because that's how we installed them but for some reason I couldn't get the stairs to release. So pulled the truck to about 20' outside of the building and stretched her in. Lifting straight up at the hook location was the key. The bottom we floated on a pallet jack so we wouldn't scrape up the floor.
So this old location (for arbsession) is actually a portion of my tree service's building. This is a 40x60 area. Arbsession is now in an 8,000 sq foot building. Only downside to this new building is we only have 13' tall walls with a max peak at the center around 20' between the beams. My tree service building has 18' tall ceilings flat which was much nicer.
Arbsession is in a temporary building. We have sights on a 30,000 to 40,000 sq foot building.

 

[chiselbit]

Right on. When you get out of the temporary and into the new location show us some pics of the place.

 

[27RMT0N]

Yah, it's a pretty amazing amount of side-reach. As someone used to working with stick cranes, that kind of thing isn't even imaginable!

 

[chiselbit]

That’s where I’m at too. I’ve never seen a kboom in action. That pic kinda blows my mind

 

[Treetopflyer]

@MikePoor I love this thread and some of the pics are really cool for me. Pioneer shit.

 

[Kottonwood]

It was really great to run a crane with a load sensor on it for a while. As far as learning to guess what tree parts weigh, no better teacher. That was a long time ago and though I have climbed for quite a few crane jobs since then, I have not operated a crane in a long time. I have heard that knuckle boom cranes don't have load sensors. I also find it impressive that your new crane is rated for over 1000 lbs straight out horizontal at full extension. If it was mine, I would find something that wieghs close to the max at full extension and lift it in an open lot. Move it around and see how the machine feels. Then maybe make a stack of logs you believe to be around 10,000 lbs and lift that at the longest extension its rated to lift it at. You never want a surprise when shit is on the line and you are counting on that machine to preserve life and property.

Before I got my kboom I had a 38 ton manitex stick crane with a full lmi. I didn't think I could ever operate without knowing the weights so I bought a cheap load cell off of ebay. After a little while I found myself never taking the extra time to hook it up. Finally the battery died over a year ago and I really don't miss it. I am glad I learned with that tool, but I'm pretty damn good at guessing now, and I will always just go smaller if something doesn't feel right.

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[Treetopflyer]

Before I got my kboom I had a 38 ton manitex stick crane with a full lmi. I didn't think I could ever operate without knowing the weights so I bought a cheap load cell off of ebay. After a little while I found myself never taking the extra time to hook it up. Finally the battery died over a year ago and I really don't miss it. I am glad I learned with that tool, but I'm pretty damn good at guessing now, and I will always just go smaller if something doesn't feel right.

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Same I learned on my kaboom without any of that fancy stuff. Still don't have it unless I hook up the load cell which I Rarely do unless spiked interest in what were picking drives us to hook it up.. My mentor was/is excellent teacher and I worked with him for around 5 or so years before I ever operated, just climbed . That helped me become a better operator in the end. Now I climb while operating regularly and it works for me the little spec back in the remaining stem waving at the camera while slewing over the house and broke down jeeps in driveway. freaking jersey

 

[Kottonwood]

Same I learned on my kaboom without any of that fancy stuff. Still don't have it unless I hook up the load cell which I Rarely do unless spiked interest in what were picking View attachment 85715drives us to hook it up.. My mentor was/is excellent teacher and I worked with him for around 5 or so years before I ever operated, just climbed . That helped me become a better operator in the end. Now I climb while operating regularly and it works for me the little spec back in the remaining stem waving at the camera while slewing over the house and broke down jeeps in driveway. freaking jersey

Nice! I just got the remote on mine, it's been a couple years since I've climbed, but I really want to do one all by myself like that. I did an emergency job by myself with my stick crane before.... It was extremely labor intensive without a remote.

 

[Kottonwood]

We originally tried to use our loader because that's how we installed them but for some reason I couldn't get the stairs to release. So pulled the truck to about 20' outside of the building and stretched her in. Lifting straight up at the hook location was the key. The bottom we floated on a pallet jack so we wouldn't scrape up the floor.
So this old location (for arbsession) is actually a portion of my tree service's building. This is a 40x60 area. Arbsession is now in an 8,000 sq foot building. Only downside to this new building is we only have 13' tall walls with a max peak at the center around 20' between the beams. My tree service building has 18' tall ceilings flat which was much nicer.
Arbsession is in a temporary building. We have sights on a 30,000 to 40,000 sq foot building.

First I've heard of your company and I had to look it up. I look forward to checking it out. I was a big fan of treestuff back in the day until it got bought out.

 

[Steve Connally]

I wouldn't make a pick without my load cell. Just how I operate. The guessing game just isn't accurate enough for me. When I say guessing, I'm talking about pretension and what the pick actually weighed in relation. I've run a load cell on my k-boom for about 5 years.

 

[Steve Connally]

 

[vkoot]

I wouldn't make a pick without my load cell. Just how I operate. The guessing game just isn't accurate enough for me. When I say guessing, I'm talking about pretension and what the pick actually weighed in relation. I've run a load cell on my k-boom for about 5 years.

Hey Steve, what load cell are you running?

 

[Steve Connally]

Hey Steve, what load cell are you running?

Straightpoint Radiolink RC Plus 12t with the handheld receiver.

 

[Treetopflyer]

Just some more fun with Knuckleboom’s !

 

[MA Arborist]

Loving it!

 

[Steve Connally]

Different kinda job

 

[oceans]

Different kinda job

Work is work! Anything picking back up for you?

 

[Steve Connally]

Work is work! Anything picking back up for you?

May turned out to be solid. I've been doing a little teaching. I will have worked 4 days this week but nothing on the schedule after Friday. I've had about 6 days of work this month.

 

[Treetopflyer]

Couple non tree related fun with knuckeboom shots my buddy took the other day.

 

[Matias]

May turned out to be solid. I've been doing a little teaching. I will have worked 4 days this week but nothing on the schedule after Friday. I've had about 6 days of work this month.

I have been dealing with that kind of feast/famine cycling and fuck it's exhausting.