Work thread

Drive line and park brake on this loader thi morning.

 

Revive this thread. At a new job now. Some folks may find this interesting and others not so much. Rebuilding complete ac system on a Mack lowboy . Rebuilding this Perkins in my spare time. It goes in the roller behind it.

 

Loaded this in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday and delivering today in Little Rock Arkansas. There’s like 40 - 45 trucks delivering the crane

leibherr LR1300

One track section is about 53,000 pounds

 

I have a friend who assembles those cranes , he travels all over and is often spending weeks in one location getting them set.
Amazing machines.

 

logistics Behind them blow me away.

if you’re in Little rock, this is the new cream that is going on I 30 bridge project on the southside of the River

 

That's stretching the term for a "mobile crain"
What was the site? It must have been straight from Germany to the port.

 

Underneath the I278 bridge between Elizabeth NJ that goes to Staten Island.

unloading the house for the crane. They’ll pull me up next to it and put the track section on immediately.






At least I get to sit in the shade under I-30 while I wait.

before they pulled him up. The other trucks are sitting in the sun.

 

I'm in Little Rock every day. I work in Benton just 20 minutes from your drop site. Yeah it's bad hot and humid here. Honk when you go buy . If you have time I would love to buy you lunch.

 

Uh oh! New project in the garage? I can hear your wheels turning.

It would be nice to have so i can load mill logs in the truck.

 

Well as luck will have it, the crew rolled the cords up at 5 pm and went home.

So I’m sitting here until morning now.

 

Stay cool buddy!
At those temps I'd be thinking about lights and night work.

 

My old job we had a 1200 HITACHI hoe. The counter weight is 45,000 lbs, house is 100,000 lbs, each roller frame is 35,000, and bucket is 25,000. That's just a 1200 they make a 8600. Couldn't imagine tearing the 8600 down and moving it.

 

The heaviest hoe ive ever heard of!

 

Not THE crane, but an example of the biggest crane I’ve been a part of moving.

Liebherr LR13000



the part I carried was the boom mast that connected the counter boom to the crane. It was heavy. Like 78 trucks to move it from Gary IN steel mill to Port of Baltimore to put it on a boat to take it to Galveston TX.

 

It's kinda mind boggling to imagine the budget for the whole project when just getting a crain moved there must be close to lottery winnings.

 

Was waiting on a comment about like that.

 

I've posted a picture of it before. Thats me on the far left. I'm 6'2" for size reference.

 

Makes you wonder about what “man’s mind” is capable of creating

 

Electrical gremlins today

 

It’s been all week like that here…