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Good for you! Now if you could only land a chick with a fine (slender) behind like that, you would be doing well for yourself.

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personal attacks on me are fun! but saying my wife has a fat isn't very nice, missy! she just had twins 8 months ago.

Its a nice ill give you that, but theres definitely some junk in da trunk!

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They are "built for comfort not for speed."

My best friend's dad taught us that.
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WTF aaaahhhhhhh WTF, Did Jamin just tell us he was molested as a child?????????
 
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WTF aaaahhhhhhh WTF, Did Jamin just tell us he was molested as a child?????????

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I just woke the dog up laughing @ that!


I think he did! Jamin you need a hug, bro? Or does that bring back the bad memories?
 
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WTF aaaahhhhhhh WTF, Did Jamin just tell us he was molested as a child?????????

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Ha ha ha, I just laught out loud as well.

see, that's why we need Hollen on here.
 
AGREED! New avatar & crane are AMAZING! BB, can ya' check on the weight with &w/o counterweight? 2200 lbs. @ 165 ft radius is going to come in sooo handy huh? It looks like it turns fairly tight too!
 
Here is another typical Idaho crane access road, in this case a truss setting job, I had to two point several of the switchbacks, and had both axles locked up, I never spun a tire but if I had it would have been CAT time to get it out of there!
 

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Scotland’s James Jack crane hire has completed a lift which required the crane to pass between two walls with just 20mm to spare.

Working with Ross-Shire based engineering experts Isleburn, the job involved lifting a 500Kg Head Stock, an essential part of the mechanism required to open the Loch gates, into position at Mullardoch Loch near Cannich..

A Kato CR-250 city crane was selected for the job and transported by low loader from Jack’s Aberdeen depot to Cannich, 130 miles away. The crane was then offloaded and completed the final nine miles of the journey to the Loch through the Mullardoch Estate, including wading the estate’s river due to a weight restriction on the bridge.

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The cranes eazes down the top of the dam

The skill and precision of James Jack’s crane operator, Walter Petrie, were then put to the test not only in the lift process itself which involved divers and instruction from below water by radio contact, but also in the positioning of the crane ahead of the lift.

The lift required the 2.39 metre wide crane to travel through the centre of the high sided concrete dam walls - a space measuring just 2.43 metres, allowing only 20 millimetres to spare on either side of the crane.

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With barely 20mm each side it was a tight squeeze

The crane then lowered the equipment 20 meters down the dam wall and a further 10 metres below the surface of the water, where divers instructed the operator via underwater radios to accurately position the headstock.

The result of the operation saw the Loch gates opened for the first time in the 50 years since the dam was built, diverting water into the river and allowing maintenance work to be carried out on the dam.

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Final load positioning was underwater
 
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I think any of us who have run cranes with less boom and capacity than BB's have been in that situation. I know I've been in places where we had to unbolt the mirrors to get in.

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I dont think all the boom or capacity in the world would have made that lift any easier! LOL

and for the record, we squeeze into some ultra tight spots with our rigs.
 
My point was when you don't have the chart that your machines have you need to get closer to the tree which depending on where the tree is might be difficult and time consuming. So when you have a larger machine you have the option to setup farther away, in the driveway if your lucky.

I know that anybody even if they have larger cranes like yours has to get into tight places, its part of the job.

The tree you are hired to do isn't always within radius of an easy setup.
 
With a crane the size of the new addition, there are probably very few spots that aren't tight.
 
Our 3055's have less ground PSI than the 3055 shown in Murphy Brothers pictures posted yesterday. This is due to the larger tires we run on our cranes. Well worth the money invested!

We also have less ground PSI than a typical boom truck, tires play a role here too, but the MEGATRAK suspension is the real star.
 
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Thats not too bad, I should do some calculations and figure out what our ground psi is.

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Do your calculations vs. what your actual weight is, you will be surprised when you compare. we weigh close to 90K down the road, and still achieve that low PSI.
 
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