Work Photos

Stephen Moore · Jul 6, 2018

Here’s the top half, I e already taken down 4

Stephen Moore · Jul 6, 2018

And the bottom drop hole! About as tight and shitty as it gets.

Steve Connally · Jul 7, 2018

My first job for a fellow buzzer as well as his first crane job. He did it like a vet. 9 hours 6 trees and some really long stretches. Tested all of us including the crane. Great job Dave @BRT

Stephen Moore · Jul 7, 2018

Steve Connally said:
My first job for a fellow buzzer as well as his first crane job. He did it like a vet. 9 hours 6 trees and some really long stretches. Tested all of us including the crane. Great job Dave @BRT View attachment 52585 View attachment 52586 View attachment 52587 View attachment 52588 View attachment 52589 View attachment 52590 View attachment 52591

Nice pile of firewood right there! Pine suck! I wish I had a crane!

BRT · Jul 8, 2018

Steve Connally said:
My first job for a fellow buzzer as well as his first crane job. He did it like a vet. 9 hours 6 trees and some really long stretches. Tested all of us including the crane. Great job Dave @BRT View attachment 52585 View attachment 52586 View attachment 52587 View attachment 52588 View attachment 52589 View attachment 52590 View attachment 52591

Awesome day Steve! Thanks for the kind words. Your experience and professionalism made the day a great success.

Love your rig! My guys love your rig! Our customer loves your rig!

I got some GoPro footage, but mostly of removing the logs. I'll get some of the limbs coming out when we do that job on the 18th. Try to put a vid together with those clips.

Stephen Moore · Jul 8, 2018

Steve Connally said:
My first job for a fellow buzzer as well as his first crane job. He did it like a vet. 9 hours 6 trees and some really long stretches. Tested all of us including the crane. Great job Dave @BRT View attachment 52585 View attachment 52586 View attachment 52587 View attachment 52588 View attachment 52589 View attachment 52590 View attachment 52591

looks like a big fly rod fishing for pine trees

Steve Connally · Jul 9, 2018

Stephen Moore said:
looks like a big fly rod fishing for pine trees

The boom deflection can be quite unsettling at times

craneguy1 · Jul 9, 2018

Steve Connally said:
The boom deflection can be quite unsettling at times

It has to deflect...when a national looks like that, trade that $hit in.

Steve Connally · Jul 10, 2018

craneguy1 said:
It has to deflect...when a national looks like that, trade that $hit in.

Yeah sometimes I have to walk away and look at a different angle or I get really uncomfortable. The pretension accuracy is so imperative with a flexible boom. Too much and you have a very expensive slingshot. The anti oscillation system can only compensate but so much. Getting a load cell was the best safest investment I've made to date. I don't understand how these guys do it by just looking at the LED lights on the remote. Maybe I just suck. It only took one good boomerang to know I needed the load cell. Luckily nothing or nobody was harmed in the making of that mistake. Oh yeah did I say the boom deflection is unsettling at times? Not just the operator but the sawyer has to have their cutting came on point. I've made some pretty crappy cuts with a stick crane and everything still came off pretty. Not the case with a springy boom. One little strap of wood and a pinched saw can take pretension up hundreds of pounds either vertically or off center creating torque where torque shouldn't be. I wonder if I could run a cable crane with any skill having worked a kboom for a while. I'd like to try. I'm wondering if it would be much more forgiving. Not saying less skill, just different.

hseII · Jul 10, 2018

Steve Connally said:
My first job for a fellow buzzer as well as his first crane job. He did it like a vet. 9 hours 6 trees and some really long stretches. Tested all of us including the crane. Great job Dave @BRT View attachment 52585 View attachment 52586 View attachment 52587 View attachment 52588 View attachment 52589 View attachment 52590 View attachment 52591

Your Cool Jobs list keeps growing!

You Are Rockin’ It!!

treebilly · Jul 10, 2018

Looks good to me Steve. I just drove by a job on Princess Anne that looked like you and your rig could’ve made the job much more simple and a cleaner outcome. Not judging them because I don’t know the whole plan with the property but lawn preservation didn’t seem to be on the forefront.
As much as I’d like to visit with you the wife and kids are keeping me busy. On a quick break from the beach now

CanaryBoss · Jul 10, 2018

Stephen Moore said:
And the bottom drop hole! About as tight and shitty as it gets. View attachment 52573

Dude you need a helicopter

Steve Connally · Jul 10, 2018

treebilly said:
Looks good to me Steve. I just drove by a job on Princess Anne that looked like you and your rig could’ve made the job much more simple and a cleaner outcome. Not judging them because I don’t know the whole plan with the property but lawn preservation didn’t seem to be on the forefront.
As much as I’d like to visit with you the wife and kids are keeping me busy. On a quick break from the beach now

Its fine man I understand. Yeah the companies around here generally only know a crane means cables. Plus they see a crane as taking away profit not helping make it. It's kinda ass backwards.

treebilly · Jul 11, 2018

Same as my boss. A crane cost xxx a day. I agree that 99% of the work does not require a crane but man they can make 90% of the work go so much easier and be more “efficient”.

craneguy1 · Jul 11, 2018

Steve Connally said:
Yeah sometimes I have to walk away and look at a different angle or I get really uncomfortable. The pretension accuracy is so imperative with a flexible boom. Too much and you have a very expensive slingshot. The anti oscillation system can only compensate but so much. Getting a load cell was the best safest investment I've made to date. I don't understand how these guys do it by just looking at the LED lights on the remote. Maybe I just suck. It only took one good boomerang to know I needed the load cell. Luckily nothing or nobody was harmed in the making of that mistake. Oh yeah did I say the boom deflection is unsettling at times? Not just the operator but the sawyer has to have their cutting came on point. I've made some pretty crappy cuts with a stick crane and everything still came off pretty. Not the case with a springy boom. One little strap of wood and a pinched saw can take pretension up hundreds of pounds either vertically or off center creating torque where torque shouldn't be. I wonder if I could run a cable crane with any skill having worked a kboom for a while. I'd like to try. I'm wondering if it would be much more forgiving. Not saying less skill, just different.

Bring it to n.e. ohio...we can trade and try it out! I agree...a read out helps dramatically in our business. I was at a demo here in ohio about 6 years ago where effer paid mr. Poor to come in and they said in a year or 2 effer would have a load cell available...haven't heard anything yet.

Stephen Moore · Jul 11, 2018

CanaryBoss said:
Dude you need a helicopter

I’d like a crane but the cost to get one big enough way out here is too much for the client And they are a challenge, but nothing we can’t handle albeit with a lot of fluid loss!