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"28 years and I quit and took a job watching other men work,,,, boy!! I get a big kick out of that,, BTW. Noting like the feeling of power and command"!!

Not quite seeing it myself either. Just saying. Starting to think vet might be onto something..
 
Its only a 18t its an 08 with 18k miles not sure why they didn't get something a little more used but bigger for the same money woulda made much more sense if ur getting a truck that big to get a big boom but I can put 14k on the bed so that's nice I guess.

That wire is for lights mounted on the boom I think they onto go to the end of the first stage the wire for my lmi is internal thank God otherwise I know that is getting ripped off lol
lmi on 08 18t?
 
if you got a front rigger the capacity is the same as over the side. adding weight to the bed may make you feel better but your capacity is limited by the booms strength of materials rating.
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ya gotta have some different colors. imagine how funky those things get soaking up sweat and dirt all day. you couldn't pay me to wear his for an hour.
My ground guys helmet is so frigging bad right now if you touch it you can't wash it off. It's beyond disgusting. Think of the worst pussy you've ever smelled, yet he add a ruptured dead body.
 
It makes me feel better!

Surprised I didn't fold up my last crano boom then as I often picked a honker out of the lot for rear ballist and to pin down the outrigs. Truck thrashed around a lot less I know that. Crane before that, 10 tonner (my second crane) I actually hit the boom on the ground before it stopped flipping as it was boomed down. Used to do some real primitive stuff back in the 80's (Paul's hey day lol).
 
Yesterday was a fun day. We (2 men) in the earlier picture on Poplar Ave. removed a large (not giant...$2k removal) thornless honey locust completely blind from each other, over the entire width, length, roof of the pictured house, with 2 broken leads hanging down and 2 huge leads over 2 houses about 15 feet apart roof to roof....with my op/gm having only about a week and a half total accrued time operating a crane....any crane. Wraptored up (too thick to crane up) and came down at lunch and wraptored back up with rope I set for it.

Testimony to the Rope Tec helmets with the communication systems. I mean, come on, pretty amazing in my opinion. I was looking right up into the sun the whole time too and he had a landing zone of barely the size of each pick with wires, the side of the house and a new privacy fence to fit into. Wow is all I can say.

It reminds me of back in the day when I broke away from Bartlett to do side jobs and used to do them in my MG convertable and use the homeowner husband as my groundman lowering and such. They loved to play treeman for a day.
 

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