The Official Work Pictures Thread

[davidwyby]

 

[treebilly]

Wow, nice crane. Do you like the 45t alot more than your crane?

Absolutely. I like the length of boom. He has three 38 tons with the same length but capacity goes way down. The 40 ton grove actually has higher capacity at around 70’ radius because there is one less boom section to account for. I would be happy with this crane being the one I use. Rick is my sub of choice. He started in tree work and learned crane work with trees. His wife actually runs one of our biggest competitors. Never been a problem. He is a great operator and a true businessman when it comes to being a crane rental company. Also even though we are competitors, his wife and my boss (with my help) get along great. Anyhow I prefer that crane over mine. For this job it was the obvious choice. Where I was at in that pic was the easy part. You can see cuts on the oak to the left that were the reason I called him. Close to same radius, but PITA. It would’ve really sucked without him.

 

[lumberjack]

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We were a bit stretched out yesterday. Trees were tall and crane was set up downhill. This pic was taken after I had negative rigged the top and then attached the crane to it to fly it away. Makes for a long day when the highest we were good for was 3800#’s.

Does the 45127 have the jib? I see on the chart doesn't favor using it at a 100' radius, but negative rigging to pick with the crane is also powerfully slow.

 

[cory]

Was the crane op test difficult? In CT it is notoriously difficult. My crane guy says, as an analogy, 'we all know to stop at stop signs but they want you to know the exact rule name and number of the law' which is obviously stupid. I think the crane union is behind it in order to keep the license as exclusive as possible.