Now I feel like a newb with my 25.
You should, eight years is a long time lol.
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I really need the boss to buy a potty lift
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Plywooding the driveway I guess helps with the crane. We’ve only done it on concrete twice but almost every time on asphalt. I dread the day I crack a drive though. I know it’s gonna happen sooner or later.
. Plywooding the driveway I guess helps with the crane. We’ve only done it on concrete twice but almost every time on asphalt. I dread the day I crack a drive though. I know it’s gonna happen sooner or later.
Oh, you influenced me to join the plywood party a few years ago now! Here are some shots from today!
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I just never would have thought I would need plywood on an asphalt driveway for a bucket truck!
Rabid K9
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Sealed driveways are the worst!!
A thin veneer over usually a poorly prepared base. Dread working on them.
Melt on hot days with weight of trucks (even with matts), petrol can dissolve the bitumen, people seems to suddenly see the existing defects once you’ve been in there with heavy equipment, not to mention the brittle edges….
Rabid K9
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Far from ‘asphalt’ yesterday.
As far as bushfire clean-ups go, not the worst, but always hard on bodies & gear.
Chipped a tiger snake, right when chute blocked due to dry, burnt material. In Australian reptile terms, not the most venomous, but certainly not one to mess around with, so required a bit of caution unblocking.
End of the day cleaning up, nearly picked up his mate, still very much alive & not very happy.
As far as bushfire clean-ups go, not the worst, but always hard on bodies & gear.
Chipped a tiger snake, right when chute blocked due to dry, burnt material. In Australian reptile terms, not the most venomous, but certainly not one to mess around with, so required a bit of caution unblocking.
End of the day cleaning up, nearly picked up his mate, still very much alive & not very happy.
Cool pics. My favorite yet was the two dogs swimming in that beautiful water.
No snakes for The MDS. Beautiful as your country looks, them damn snakes are a deal breaker for me.
No snakes for The MDS. Beautiful as your country looks, them damn snakes are a deal breaker for me.
I really need the boss to buy a potty lift
Plywooding the driveway I guess helps with the crane. We’ve only done it on concrete twice but almost every time on asphalt. I dread the day I crack a drive though. I know it’s gonna happen sooner or later.
I just saw a video of the old hypocrite bragging about his potty cmc and how it has such great access, blah, blah, blah. Lol. Pretty funny after all that.
Last I heard you guys were leaning towards an omme. I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to fly an Omme yet, but one thing I will say is that they do sway around a lot, and they are heavy (which I like). I think you’d get over it pretty quick. 168k into it I know I did. They are a great machine overall imo.
Lol, looks like you guys need a little practice laying the old plyboard!
I’ve not yet got to fly an omne. The spider lift got put on hold because of other equipment issues. Also a bad experience with a cmc. I’m guessing sometime in the next year we will own one ( brand yet to be decided). He’s looking at replacing 6 buckets with in the next 36 months so I understand his hesitation. We could honestly use two spiders and 5 buckets.
Is that old grouchy guys CMC roller painted orange yet?
Is that old grouchy guys CMC roller painted orange yet?
Rabid K9
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Have had an solid outdoor life living with them, with many closer calls than most. Really not a big worry in the scheme of things.
One thing about the Tigers is their injection mechanism (front fangs) are very small & all the bite scenarios have been involved in have been ‘dry bites’ (no envenomation).
Do you watch out for these two with them though.
I think buckets are slowly becoming more and more obsolete in the residential market. I was talking with another guy that used to own two rear mount elevator buckets and a spider, and he recently sold the older bucket to buy a second spider. We both agreed that it’s almost like buckets are becoming obsolete unless you’re doing municipal work.
insulated boom is nice
ole dave got on a guy on facebook today talking about working over primaries with the spiderlift, was a comment on some dudes post about taking down some pines "cant climb them because power lines"
last I checked wood doesnt conduct nearly as good as the pot metal that lift is made of
its amazing how after he made fun of them constantly, he cant function without it now! the cheese really has slid off his cracker.
do you know what pot metal is?
the cheap chineseium crap
low melting point, and cheap to produce, used to make all sorts of cheap crap
still conducts electricity, unlike a fiberglass boom
Tree preservation job on our town green
Damn, Mike!! Nice!!
I don’t do shirts anymore. I’m convinced it’s a curse. Give ‘em a shirt and that’s the end. I figure **** it, the equipment matches and that’s enough.
Awesome sales Sunday here. Might have set a personal record if the one last existing customer decides to do everything.
Good ole ash trees and a potty lift was key on this one… oh, and the plyboard, lots of plyboard. Lol
I don’t do shirts anymore. I’m convinced it’s a curse. Give ‘em a shirt and that’s the end. I figure **** it, the equipment matches and that’s enough.
Awesome sales Sunday here. Might have set a personal record if the one last existing customer decides to do everything.
Good ole ash trees and a potty lift was key on this one… oh, and the plyboard, lots of plyboard. Lol
Lol. I heard it. I wonder how much use those other two bucket gems he’s got are gonna get now?
Looks like some crusty old ash. Not something any sane person would want to climb!
We buy shirts at least 20 at a time!
Matching equipment?
Luxury!
If we show up to work and everyone is wearing pants it's a good day.
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