More work pics - a positive note

[Done-it-again]

@HBCraig

Was hoping to see one of your cranes up at crazy horse.

 

[HBCraig]

@HBCraig

Was hoping to see one of your cranes up at crazy horse.

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Very cool. Small tower crane huh?

What are you doing there?

 

[RichL]

It's up and flying the flag
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That thing is a monster.

 

[Done-it-again]

Very cool. Small tower crane huh?

What are you doing there?

Yes. Took a tour to the face of it. They are going to use it to sculpt the other side of the rock as there is only access from one side.

 

[HBCraig]

3 Osh-Kosh pulling 440,000 lbs up an 18° grade

 

[Done-it-again]

man, the amount of carbon fuels that are used to produce the windmill, ship it, prepping the site, installing it with all support vehicles.

Do they even get a return?

Cool pic by the way!

 

[Icky]

3 Osh-Kosh pulling 440,000 lbs up an 18° grade View attachment 1126108

How far was it going?

 

[HBCraig]

How far was it going?

A mile or so. Full grade.... maybe 1/8th of a mile
But, there's 900k lbs of counterweight on other trucks too

 

[Icky]

A mile or so. Full grade.... maybe 1/8th of a mile
But, there's 900k lbs of counterweight on other trucks too

I was just curious why they didn't drive it there.

 

[HBCraig]

man, the amount of carbon fuels that are used to produce the windmill, ship it, prepping the site, installing it with all support vehicles.

Do they even get a return?

Cool pic by the way!

I don't really know if it does. I know that the turbine is 6.2MW.

 

[arch stanton]

i am now an honorary amazon driver this tree and the other on the ground are going to Jeff Bezos house, i hauled this one from Bonsall to Camarillo to a staging area
you don’t see these old cranes very often do to smog laws i’m going to guess

it is a 70s area machine at best as it has split rims.
may have been a few osha violations committed today

 

[arch stanton]

 

[HBCraig]

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35 ton Lorraine?

 

[arch stanton]

I don't know how to read the model number MCH-350D maybe 35 ton or could be a 30 ton.

The tree when strapped down was 14' tall and 14' 11" wide when I started but I think the ropes loosened up a little and it got a little wider or maybe I just looked bigger in daylight I left at 3am

 

[HBCraig]

Exchanging some wind components
550 ton and 725 ton capacity cranes

 

[highvoltagehands]

man, the amount of carbon fuels that are used to produce the windmill, ship it, prepping the site, installing it with all support vehicles.

Do they even get a return?

Cool pic by the way!

Sure, some hydrocarbons are burned to produce, ship, prep and install, but it it ends there. Whereas a fossil fuel generator burns hydrocarbons to produce, ship, prep, install and RUN every minute throughout it’s entire lifespan. Would you rather live next to a windmill or a refinery?

 

[Done-it-again]

Sure, some hydrocarbons are burned to produce, ship, prep and install, but it it ends there. Whereas a fossil fuel generator burns hydrocarbons to produce, ship, prep, install and RUN every minute throughout it’s entire lifespan. Would you rather live next to a windmill or a refinery?

You didnt answer the question.

To answer yours, I wouldn’t like to live by either.

 

[HBCraig]

Sure, some hydrocarbons are burned to produce, ship, prep and install, but it it ends there. Whereas a fossil fuel generator burns hydrocarbons to produce, ship, prep, install and RUN every minute throughout it’s entire lifespan. Would you rather live next to a windmill or a refinery?

Neither.

 

[SixD9R]

The cranes and all the effort that go into those wind mills is no doubt very cool. But….My grip about wind turbines here in Pa and I’m sure other wooded, mountainous areas is the amount of trees (which actually help the environment) that have to be destroyed for a tiny amount of electricity. Doesn’t seem very green at all.

A small gas and steam turbine setup and generator can make the same amount or far more power with a much smaller foot print and they are very clean. One plant I worked at in Florida was 120MW net and you wouldn’t even know it’s a power plant driving by it if you didn’t read the sign.

 

[HBCraig]

500 ton working on the spaghetti bowl in Vegas placing girders
@Nordie were you on this job?

 

[Nordie]

500 ton working on the spaghetti bowl in Vegas placing girders
@Nordie were you on this job?

Was that project Neon a couple 3 years ago? I worked on it here and there. If it's recent I know we have something with Granite down there, but that looks like Neon with Keiwit.

One of your cranes with Dielco is setting the girders on my project. I'll try to snag pictures the next time they come back out. It'll be a month or 2.

 

[HBCraig]

Was that project Neon a couple 3 years ago? I worked on it here and there. If it's recent I know we have something with Granite down there, but that looks like Neon with Keiwit.

One of your cranes with Dielco is setting the girders on my project. I'll try to snag pictures the next time they come back out. It'll be a month or 2.

Cool. Do it please

 

[Nordie]

Cool. Do it please

These were from a while back, I don't have anything to do with setting them, we goto work once they're set and decked.

 

[Paradox]

Making some progress on our projects, here’s a couple. First is the installation of a StormTrap system on a storm water mitigation project and the 2nd is a Student Services building. Both are going well. I wish I could take credit for them however, I am more or less just the chief paper pusher..

 

[monkeyswrench]

Making some progress on our projects, here’s a couple. First is the installation of a StormTrap system on a storm water mitigation project and the 2nd is a Student Services building. Both are going well. I wish I could take credit for them however, I am more or less just the chief paper pusher..

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Does your company do both above and below grade waterproofing? Looking at the roof deck and Sarnafil PVC stuff looks like my past life

 

[Paradox]

Does your company do both above and below grade waterproofing? Looking at the roof deck and Sarnafil PVC stuff looks like my past life

I work for a firm that manages design and construction for public entities such as school districts, cities, counties and others. Since I work in California, most of the specs I see are higher end quality such as Sarnafil roofs. Projects I work on typically use 48 division specs and the quality aspect holds true to the upper end across all of them, including waterproofing. These buildings are intended to serve upwards of 50 years.

 

[monkeyswrench]

I work for a firm that manages design and construction for public entities such as school districts, cities, counties and others. Since I work in California, most of the specs I see are higher end quality such as Sarnafil roofs. Projects I work on typically use 48 division specs and the quality aspect holds true to the upper end across all of them, including waterproofing. These buildings are intended to serve upwards of 50 years.

Very cool. I did grunt work. Most of the single ply applications I did were "mechanically attached", very little of the fully adhered stuff. The only "weakness" I found with those membranes was the relative ease in which they could be punctured. HVAC installers could step on a screw they dropped and punch a hole...and at least a half dozen times I had to repair bullet holes in the hood

 

[SOCALCRICKETT]

Just flew a trauma pt out via helicopter, I gotta say I love the desert sunsets

 

[HBCraig]

Making some progress on our projects, here’s a couple. First is the installation of a StormTrap system on a storm water mitigation project and the 2nd is a Student Services building. Both are going well. I wish I could take credit for them however, I am more or less just the chief paper pusher..

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Champion Crane?

 

[Paradox]

Very cool. I did grunt work. Most of the single ply applications I did were "mechanically attached", very little of the fully adhered stuff. The only "weakness" I found with those membranes was the relative ease in which they could be punctured. HVAC installers could step on a screw they dropped and punch a hole...and at least a half dozen times I had to repair bullet holes in the hood

Ain’t that the truth. I pretty much patrol the roof during install. When I find screws or other roof damaging debris, I take pictures of it, clean it up myself and then include a discussion of the matter (with pics) at the subsequent construction meeting..

 

[Paradox]

Champion Crane?

Yes, but owned by someone else now. Recently bought out I think.

This work was scheduled to be picked by TNT but there was a road incident that forced a change. Happened right off the local freeway off ramp..

 

[HBCraig]

Yes, but owned by someone else now. Recently bought out I think.

This work was scheduled to be picked by TNT but there was a road incident that forced a change. Happened right off the local freeway off ramp..


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Reliable Crane bought them. They are good dudes.

 

[HBCraig]

Customer of mine working in Texas. 1,100 ton crawler doing some wind work. As a reference to the size of the crane you can see the guys in the pic.

 

[timstoy]

Yes, but owned by someone else now. Recently bought out I think.

This work was scheduled to be picked by TNT but there was a road incident that forced a change. Happened right off the local freeway off ramp..


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Ouch!

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

I understand we got some crane dudes round here.... us fancies can't keep from moving stuff about it seems...

 

[arch stanton]

on a job in Cielo near Rancho Santa fe setting tress again

 

[HBCraig]

500 ton with luffer in downtown LA erecting a tower crane.

 

[HBCraig]

on a job in Cielo near Rancho Santa fe setting tress again

Is that a GMK 6300?

 

[evantwheeler]

on a job in Cielo near Rancho Santa fe setting tress again

Wholy cow. My boss took about 10 similar large mature palms out of his backyard to build his shop. Looks like if he had marketed his trees properly, he could have paid for the 1800 sq ft shop in full with the trees!

 

[Nordic29]

500 ton with luffer in downtown LA erecting a tower crane.
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500 ton with luffer in downtown LA erecting a tower crane.
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@Nordic35 may have a few hundred Bragg pics laying around.

 

[Taboma]

on a job in Cielo near Rancho Santa fe setting tress again

Besides them giving you work, which is a good thing, those pricks waltzed in, bought every nursery in the surrounding counties. Which in general, made an afternoon of wandering around a cool nursery about as much fun as having some newbie sales go-fer following you around a car lot, making dumb-ass statements, so frustrating you just drive off.
First time we encountered Moon's sales tactics and ridiculous pricing they'd just moved in and bought one local nursery. Told my wife we'd never return. Then the pricks bought ALL the nurseries, and we've never been to one of them either.
The C*ck Suckers even bought Evergreen in Carmel Valley, that place was really awesome and we shopped there forever --- not now, nope.

 

[monkeyswrench]

500 ton with luffer in downtown LA erecting a tower crane.
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Impressive as hell. All the work and money it takes to go to work. How many guys....excuse me, "people" does it take to assemble the tower crane? Between the 500t crew and the guys putting the parts flying in together, not a small operation.

 

[TCHB]

These guys are flying my RTUs not sure who’s doing my steel View attachment 1004948

Do you remember Tom Dean?

 

[monkeyswrench]

Do you remember Tom Dean?

I hope this wasn't directed towards T&B...
He's since passed

 

[TCHB]

I worked with Tom on a project.

 

[Nordic35]

These guys are flying my RTUs not sure who’s doing my steel View attachment 1004948

Great company I work for them

 

[HBCraig]

A few shots from the boys in Vegas. A 265 ton and a 400 ton unit

 

[LuauLounge]

Amazing how Las Vegas just keeps building........ Someone finishes the biggest and the baddest and the guy standing next to him goes, "Hold my Beer."
Just saw that Tilman Fertitta has a new 43 story strip property in the planning stages and the Oakland A's have all but packed their bags.

 

[LuckyStrike]

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Great Machine

 

[v6toy4x]

I am retired now and happy, but I will miss the big toys. Cranes, earth equipment, helicopters,

"We are all just boys,
with big tonka toys"

hey that might have to be my new sig line!

I enjoy your content, thx