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. Job superintendent:
Nah, he's the job super. Like most, just got to the jobsite after taking a shower. Ready for coffee break ---
Oh yeah baby, Boom extension!!! I don't see any women out there with their 3' long fingers giving directions?
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.
Dat a boy !! I did the same with a JD410 lifting 15 foot walls with tilt up sections . You go Tn A . Sloth
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)
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