O.C.G.D. Thread, part two

[sotc]

I agree with the yellow, sweet rig!

 

[Burnham]

I'm with Stig, and these other guys...that rig just right.

Though something that reaches about 85 feet would be nice, too

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Just over all a nice rig. Love the short wheel base. Nice purchase Mike

 

[MasterBlaster]

That is my ultimate rig. The only way it could be better is if it was all wheel drive and had chrome rims!

 

[flushcut]

No chrome!
Nice truck btw.

 

[Reddog]

No chrome!

Exactly!

That's like leaving stubs for a work truck!

 

[squisher]

Alcoas look sweet on a boom truck. Usually will have to change the studs to fit on a med duty if it came factory with steel.

 

[FireFighterZero]

A nice coat of white looks nice in my opinion. I dont mind dirty white, I HATE dirty chrome or aluminum, but I am also too lazy to polish.

White rims with a coat of Southern Oregon Yellow? Might be nice!

 

[pete mctree]

Yellow attracts wasps & bees - not what you want when you're in a bucket!

 

[mccauleytree]

Thanks everyone! We are painting the cab white and the turret, bed, and boom our company green. It will hopefully look nice. I'm pretty sure I have a line on an almost new set of alcoas as well. If they don't work out I'll probably paint the wheels white.

 

[Reddog]

If you run in the winter on Calcium chloride treated roads in your area, stick to steel.

Alloys all pit and leak after a few years.

 

[squisher]

Save the steelies for winters and Alcoas for summers!

I ran alcoas year round here and the roads are treated with all sorts of chemicals and never had an issue but it makes sense to me that you could as I've had all sorts of grief with 'mags' on lighter trucks from winter corrosion.

 

[Dave Shepard]

If anyone is in the market for new ccordless power tools, check out the Milwaukee M18 Fuel brushless stuff. I've been researching this stuff lately, and Milwaukee is really out in front of the pack. I already had a bunch of standard M18 tools, and just bought a 1/2" Fuel impact driver. Really impressive. I'll be getting all the usual carpenters tools, just without the cords. Battery technology has come so far that circle saws and sawzalls have as much or more power than corded models with impressive run times. The circ saw will cut up to 250 2x4s on a charge.

 

[lumberjack]

Yep. I have a couple of their highest torque 1/2" impacts, a 1/4" impact (100ftlbs torque like the 3/8"), grease gun, and angle grinder... all are great. I use the angle grinder to sharpen the blades on my mower/mulcher (23lb, 3/4" thick blades).

 

[FireFighterZero]

I have a bunch of DeWalt 18 volt stuff. Milwaukee stuff that much better?

 

[cory]

Too bad all those cordless cutters are so excellent for breaking into tree trucks.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Shit, I never thought of that!

 

[cory]

You don't have a criminal mind

 

[Raj]

Anyone use tool box alarms?

 

[Dave Shepard]

Jim, the new Fuel tools from Milwaukee are way ahead of the old ni-cad stuff. I have a 20 year old DeWalt 18v drill. It was good back then, but is outdated now. Brushless is the way to go for best battery life.

 

[stig]

Anyone use tool box alarms?

Yep.
Mine is half Pyreneean, half Alsatian and weighs in at about 100pds.
Pretty effective, but my old half Alsatian, half Riesen Schnauzer was better.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Anyone use tool box alarms?

I didn't know they existed; sounds like a great idea! I'd like one that had a tear gas bomb! SWEET!

 

[woodslinger]

Jim, my dad has new 18v (NiCd or NiMh, not sure which) dewalt, and they work almost as well as my 20v (LIon) but the LIon packs last almost forever, don't really loose charge from sitting, and the brushless versions are being rolled out. I got the brushless impact and I am waiting for dewalt to convert the circ saw to brushless. If I did not already have 2 dewalt 20v tools, I would go with Milwaukee as much more of their line, if not the entire line, is available in brushless. You get longer run time out of the brushless motors.
The longevity of the battery packs is where the Lithium stuff really shines, the older cordless tools always needed battery replacements which is why my Father-in-law would never buy one. Also if you didn't use one for a while, you had to charge it again BEFORE you started your project. After using my 20v drill, he got the drill/impact combo on black friday.

 

[Reddog]

Been running Bosch Li ion. No complaints.


Milwaukee should have treated us better years ago with their overpriced junk corded tools. They can kiss my *** now.

 

[Grendel]

New splitfire looks like a beast!