Bucket trucks

MasterBlaster · Dec 22, 2003

Originally posted by MidwestTree
... a guy in town used to rope off huge limbs to the boom and then cut them, letting the boom take the shock.

Ha!

What a nut!

zero · Dec 23, 2003

Boom!!!

mb - funny the way some people think boom,till it goes boom!! hate to be the guy who buys that little cream puff.

murphy4trees · Dec 23, 2003

RAISE YOUR PRICES!!!!!
(that goes for everybody)

MidwestTree · Dec 23, 2003

Zero,

So far it is setting in the weeds...good home for it!

MasterBlaster · Dec 23, 2003

When I was a newbie my mentor was an idiot, pretty much. Actually, it was kinda good for me, cause he let me operate the bucket by the second day. By the second week, I WAS the operater. Ha! I didn't know anything except to set my outriggers and keep outta the hot wires.

Anywho, part of his 'training' was telling me that it was alright to rope smaller 'large' limbs on the boom's lanyard hook. Oh, lanyards? Ha! I think there was one in a side bin somewhere. We never wore 'em.

I bet there is someone out there right this minute that does this as a matter of procedure.

Hmmmmmmmm.

In my old age I guess I would say that if there was no shock-loading involved, and the combined total weight of the operater/load did not exceed the buckets max weight, roping in that manner is not so far-fetched as one might think.

But I would do that only as a last resort.

There is ALLWAYS A WAY to get the job done, and do it correctly.

Ya just gotta THINK....

MasterBlaster · Dec 23, 2003

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel

But it's still wrong to do it.

I'm sure Ann-suh wouldn't approve. But if you don't overload the bucket, and you don't shock load, doing it once in a blue moon ain't no big deal.

If I remember right, the max load on my bucket was 300 lbs.
I'm an easy 200. So basically, any limb you can't hold with both hands(over 100 lbs) is overloading the boom.

Ja all think?