Crane rigging
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MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Kool, Kurtz. The pics ARE a tad on the large side.
Their easy to resize in yur paint program.
Is there any special reason the ball isn't directly over the load? Sometimes the pics don't translate the situation as well as we want them to.
Their easy to resize in yur paint program.Is there any special reason the ball isn't directly over the load? Sometimes the pics don't translate the situation as well as we want them to.
the one the sling was to small so the ball wasn't quite above the load it probably isn't to good to do that or what do you think? The crane guy said it is fine. I dont know how to use my paint program if you want to resize them feel free.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
It just lifts away smoother like that. The way you have it it will kinda twist the snag as you go deeper into your cut. That can be a real PITA on the bigger limbs sometimes.
If you use your "paint" program to resize the pics, be dam<i></i>n sure you don't save them as BMP, which is the default as I recall. First, the BMP images aren't compressed so they'll likely be larger-sized files than when you started, and they're not natively portable between all computer systems, being a Microsoft format.
Glen
Glen
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
What Glen said, definitely. While you're in paint, FOR SURE save it as a jpeg. Rocky will thank you for it.
In paint while in the upper right corner box select tool mode; you can select the whole area by CTRL-A. Then (keep finger on CTRL if ya like) Ctrl-W brings up the shrink/skew box.
40 TAB 40 Enter will shrink proportionally to 40%.
CTRL-R will bring up your rotate box for the selected area. If pic isn't square you must stretch pallete before rotating non-180's; lest you lose part of the the longer side, shifted into the shorter framing.
After that operation, grab the selected area (pic, not white space)shove up and left to crop on either of those 2 margins.
Then, draw pallete frame tight up from lower right to fit picture, then further on bottom or right to crop thos sides.
Save.
MSPaint doesn't natively handle .jpg .gif; it must be converted, a few things do it (MSOffice) and you'd never know it. So don't feel bad if you can't save or open .jpg .gif in Paint. It can be adjusted http://www.geocities.com/one_human/advanced.html
Sometimes, Paint can handle the .jpg but something else opens it, then the file assotiation needs changed.
40 TAB 40 Enter will shrink proportionally to 40%.
CTRL-R will bring up your rotate box for the selected area. If pic isn't square you must stretch pallete before rotating non-180's; lest you lose part of the the longer side, shifted into the shorter framing.
After that operation, grab the selected area (pic, not white space)shove up and left to crop on either of those 2 margins.
Then, draw pallete frame tight up from lower right to fit picture, then further on bottom or right to crop thos sides.
Save.
MSPaint doesn't natively handle .jpg .gif; it must be converted, a few things do it (MSOffice) and you'd never know it. So don't feel bad if you can't save or open .jpg .gif in Paint. It can be adjusted http://www.geocities.com/one_human/advanced.html
Sometimes, Paint can handle the .jpg but something else opens it, then the file assotiation needs changed.
Here's a point of reference.
I fetched "crane3.jpg". It took 4 minutes 52 seconds to arrive at 5.3 KB/s over the POTS modem as a 1,577,971 byte file named "12795.jpg".
Then I opened a terminal window and at the command prompt entered the command (in the same directory as the file landed):
<font face="fixed" size="-1">convert -resize 40% -gamma 1.4 -rotate 90 -sharpen 0x1 12795.jpg 12795.mod.jpg</font>
which command took 17.8 seconds to run on the 233 MHz computer, resulting in a 148,027 byte file named "12795.mod.jpg", attached below (still large in size byte-wise for attachments here, which should really be kept to around 100KB).
Now maybe all that's too hard to remember how to do, but I don't see how in the world it's any harder than jumping through all them hoops just described in the post above.
The program "convert" is available as part of a free package from http://www.imagemagick.org/ and while in my (unix) version all the (very many) manipulation routines are available through popup menus via the image displayer, it has come to my attention that they are mostly not incorporated into the display program with the Windows version. The command-line version of the program for Windows is fully capable, I would guess. The direct commands are faster anyway since no screen updates need to be made at all the various stages. Not only can the images be manipulated, but they can be converted between virtually all known image file types, certainly more than most people typically encounter. "contact" sheets can be readily made with thumbnail prints arrayed in a grid, with various information regarding the originals noted by each one, etc. Extremely powerful and capable stuff, and safe, fast, and free.
Glen
I fetched "crane3.jpg". It took 4 minutes 52 seconds to arrive at 5.3 KB/s over the POTS modem as a 1,577,971 byte file named "12795.jpg".
Then I opened a terminal window and at the command prompt entered the command (in the same directory as the file landed):
<font face="fixed" size="-1">convert -resize 40% -gamma 1.4 -rotate 90 -sharpen 0x1 12795.jpg 12795.mod.jpg</font>
which command took 17.8 seconds to run on the 233 MHz computer, resulting in a 148,027 byte file named "12795.mod.jpg", attached below (still large in size byte-wise for attachments here, which should really be kept to around 100KB).
Now maybe all that's too hard to remember how to do, but I don't see how in the world it's any harder than jumping through all them hoops just described in the post above.
The program "convert" is available as part of a free package from http://www.imagemagick.org/ and while in my (unix) version all the (very many) manipulation routines are available through popup menus via the image displayer, it has come to my attention that they are mostly not incorporated into the display program with the Windows version. The command-line version of the program for Windows is fully capable, I would guess. The direct commands are faster anyway since no screen updates need to be made at all the various stages. Not only can the images be manipulated, but they can be converted between virtually all known image file types, certainly more than most people typically encounter. "contact" sheets can be readily made with thumbnail prints arrayed in a grid, with various information regarding the originals noted by each one, etc. Extremely powerful and capable stuff, and safe, fast, and free.
Glen
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
This is how I try to have the load positioned.
And a lotta times when the crane operator says it's ok, it really isn't.
And a lotta times when the crane operator says it's ok, it really isn't.
I see what you mean MB a couple of the limbs did twist a little just as I was gettin through I think I will use them more less work cuts the time in half to do a tree. I tried to use my paint on this picture how does it look .
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Perfect sizing! And thanks for slapping some pics in the Party Thread!
