Redneck Crane

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by TnAndy, Jun 22, 2018.


  1. TnAndy

    TnAndy Senior Member Founding Member

    Helping a neighbor set floor trusses on his new house. My mini-excavator didn't have the reach to do it (30' truss + I had to sit back about 6' from the foundation wall due to fill), so we took the bucket off, strapped/chained a 16' 6x6 to the stick end of the boom, and came up with a solution. Worked good.

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    Job superintendent:

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  2. Oddcaliber

    Oddcaliber Monkey+++

    It works and you were safe what's not to like.
     
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  3. Ganado

    Ganado Monkey+++

    Is that the operator in the second pic? cute! :eek::LOL:
     
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  4. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    Nah, he's the job super. Like most, just got to the jobsite after taking a shower. Ready for coffee break ---
     
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  5. Gator 45/70

    Gator 45/70 Monkey+++

    Oh yeah baby, Boom extension!!!

    I don't see any women out there with their 3' long fingers giving directions?
     
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  6. TnAndy

    TnAndy Senior Member Founding Member

    His wife was behind the camera.

    But she was right there working....she would hook me up and slide the chain as needed to balance the truss, then go to the end and hook up a control rope to take the spin out as I'd swing it out over the basement walls. We got real good at it toward the end, could set them almost right on the marks so her husband had very little to move on his end. He would nail his end, jump down the scafold, climb a step ladder to unhook the chain, down that ladder, up the ladder on our side to nail, and by the time he got back up to his side, we would have another truss swinging toward him. He was worn out by the end of the day.
     
  7. Cruisin Sloth

    Cruisin Sloth Special & Slow

    Dat a boy !!
    I did the same with a JD410 lifting 15 foot walls with tilt up sections .
    You go Tn A .
    Sloth
     
  8. Meat

    Meat Monkey+++

    Best thread ever! I am really into cool problem solving. Good job TnAndy. :D
     
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  9. 3M-TA3

    3M-TA3 Cold Wet Monkey

    Looks like you have a great supervisor - no doubt this went so well!
     
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  10. Meat

    Meat Monkey+++

    We used a similar method once putting up power lines. With a full size excavator. We carved a deep notch in the top of a skinny alder log. The operator picked the 4/0 copper up and over the cross arms to the awaiting hero climbing the pole. (He looked a lot like me) :whistle:
     
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  11. Byte

    Byte Monkey+++

    Gah, I keep thinking I'm going to see some gangly birds huntin' frogs in the reeds...
     
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  12. Cruisin Sloth

    Cruisin Sloth Special & Slow

    We have those here in the trees !!
    3 foot legs and they have no weight !!!I had one stand on our pool that I use to store water (Fire protection) & install feeder fish to stop the bugs . Blue Heron was maybe 8 # max .

    Sloth
     
    Last edited: Jun 26, 2018
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