buckect in the air

[juststumps]

snowed today,, no tree work,,,got sent out to get 2 skids of rock salt,, gas for the blowers...

across from the gas station.. there is a holiday inn,,, 5 bucket trucks parked..3 had the upper boom up in the air....is there a reason for doing this ??????

think it was ABC TREE,, line clearence out fit...

just wondering ,, why you would park a truck and leave it there with the boom up ????

any ideas ????

 

[joesawer]

Leak down test.

 

[oldirty]

might be a couple saws in it for you if you shimmy up the boom and take a look in the bucket. thats where i left the sticksaw when i did that stuff.

 

[Justice]

I would guess , stuff in the bucket. Could be they don't want the bucket covers stolen either.

 

[randyg]

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[beowulf343]

Yeah, that's the scary thing on storm work-getting stuff stolen by other tree companies. Dropping your gear in the bucket and raising the upper boom works amazingly well. Although it's not to tough to park your bucket next to one with the boom raised and simply swing over with your boom and empty the rival's bucket. Ah, practical jokes are just too much fun and the look on the other guy's face the next morning is priceless.

 

[juststumps]

i guess those are all good theories... wouldn't want to be the 3 out of 5 guys,, that had to drop the booms with 3-4 inches of melted snow plus the rain we had on the bucket covers......might get a little wet at the lower controls,,,

 

[beowulf343]

Actually, alot of line clearance buckets, you have to raise and lower the boom anyway to raise the chip box so you can pin or unpin your toolboxes.

 

[juststumps]

Actually, alot of line clearance buckets, you have to raise and lower the boom anyway to raise the chip box so you can pin or unpin your toolboxes.

these were newer forestry units,,i only noticed them becuase 3 of them on the far side of the parking lot had their upper booms up.. thats when i noticed 2 more buckets backed up in the lot,,, to the hiway across from the exit of the gas station...

the ones with the booms up,, only had the upper booms up at about 30 deg. lower booms in the rests.. so it wasn't a lifting the chip box thing.. ( i don't think)

what does pin and unpin your tool boxes mean,, and why would you have to lift the chip box to get into the tool boxes ???? i've seen a lot of different trucks,, but can't claim to have seen them all...

 

[joesawer]

A lot of trucks with chip boxes and tool boxes have steel pins that secure the tool boxes and are placed so that the bed has to be raised in order to take the pins out.
Raising the boom also makes it harder to steal the truck. It is one more thing to slow a thief down, espiecially if they plan to tow it away.

 

[oldirty]

next time you are looking at these trucks look at where the body and tool boxes meet. now imagine the chip box is in the raised position. around halfway up the toolbox there will be a hole on both sides of the toolbox (driver and passenger side) that is on the backside of said toolbox.

when the boom is raised you take a "pin" and slide it into the hole, and through the inside of the doors essentially locking them shut. after you pin the toolbox you lower the chipbox. and now the toolboxes cannot be opened. unless of course you have someone who really wants your equipment and they decide to hook up a chain to the toolbox and to a car and pull the doors off.

anyway the "pin" is a steel tube the length of the toolbox.


hope this helps.

 

[oldirty]

thanks joe. i see your a little quicker on the keyboard than i.

 

[juststumps]

A lot of trucks with chip boxes and tool boxes have steel pins that secure the tool boxes and are placed so that the bed has to be raised in order to take the pins out.
Raising the boom also makes it harder to steal the truck. It is one more thing to slow a thief down, espiecially if they plan to tow it away.

gotcha,, road crew thing,, staying at seedy place's....when the locks on the doors don't stop the " SKULLS" thanks joe !!!

 

[juststumps]

next time you are looking at these trucks look at where the body and tool boxes meet. now imagine the chip box is in the raised position. around halfway up the toolbox there will be a hole on both sides of the toolbox (driver and passenger side) that is on the backside of said toolbox.

when the boom is raised you take a "pin" and slide it into the hole, and through the inside of the doors essentially locking them shut. after you pin the toolbox you lower the chipbox. and now the toolboxes cannot be opened. unless of course you have someone who really wants your equipment and they decide to hook up a chain to the toolbox and to a car and pull the doors off.

anyway the "pin" is a steel tube the length of the toolbox.


hope this helps.

OD,, thanks for the reply... joe beat ya by a sec...keep thinking that i live here,, where you can still leave the door unlocked...(in my neck of the woods ) we have a few places here that you can still do this here,, still throw the keys under the seat of the car and dont lock it....if they want it bad enough,, they will get it...

i guess its the same thing when i worked at our newark shop,, at my old job,, that we had to take a piece of 2 inch pipe,, weld ears on it,, bolt it to the utility body so you could swing it down and padlock it at night,,,over the bin doors..so they couldn't pry the LOCKED doors open...forgot about that...

wrong area the SKULLS will steal anything,,,no matter how stupid it is,, makes sense now.....