I just came across an old picture of my Insley,before i got the bright idea of making it into a crane back in the mid 80 s.I still have it as a crane,but ive also got the backhoe front. Id like to put it back as a backhoe one day in my spare time.
I love it ! Any idea what year ? Cab looks just like our 1953 truck mount K-12 .
I think its 1952. Its got the 326 budha gas
That's pretty cool Tugger 2 ! That's a Mans machine for sure ! Take good care of it as they don't build them like that anymore .
Thank Goodness!!
No " trouble codes " on the K-12 . If she shuts down there's really something wrong ……. Check the fuel level first . LOL !
Moved " Old Roy " in to bail out a couple farm ponds . I'm due for a job where I don't need carry a tape measure or calculator . LOL !
Had a little trouble this afternoon ….. Popped the main line drum cable and the whip end ended up in the drink . Waded in and got it spliced back with some cable clamps so we could get the bucket back on land for new cable . OK . It's 4:00 PM and no one has any 5/8 cable on hand ….. What to do ? Head down about 12 miles to Celestine IN to the " Happy Hour " Bar & grill . https://www.facebook.com/Happy-Hour-Sports-Bar-Grill-125185978589/ Sure enough there sat my buddy Gene at the corner stool . " Hey Gene , you got any 5/8 wire rope back at the farm ? " He had a 250' roll of army surplus on hand . Slid him a couple C notes and off we went . Buddy Gene never throws anything away and keep's a pretty good inventory of odd's & ends . Got it cut & reeved back on the drum yet this evening . Back on line in the morning . All the threads on where to buy wire rope …… Check out the local tavern first . LOL ! " Beer Chug "
I just throw wood on the ground to level it up . The K-12 handles a 1/2 yard bucket with 45 ' boom on rubber pretty good . Oh … He flops around a little side to side but not to bad , about like running a rubber tire Gradall . http://www.gradall.com/
Does he have 1200' of 7/8" for a Bucyrus drill rig?
I will let ya know after we talk trash in the " Happy hour " bar & grill . That's where the big deals go down . LOL !
Things went better today ! Finished rigging the bucket up . Backed " Old Roy " on to the dam . The cows pasturing on the property did not leave me any to much earth to play on but we made it work . When I move rigged up we stow the boom over the rear & chain it to the tail board . Swing brake works but don't trust it on slopes when moving . Hopped out of the cab after I got in position …. Dang that was a big step down , damn near rolled in to the barb wire fence . LOL! Hope these fellers I'm working for got good insurance in case I get scuffed up on this job. LOL!
Td, Why do you have the dead end of the wire attached to the load line in the top pic? I have always pulled enough through the wedge to double the dead end and clip it together. I've seen three cranes red flagged by OSHA for that, Had a boss that insisted we had to clip the tail to the load line. Guess which cranes got red flagged?
There is a good reason for it but I'm going to make you cat's guess at it awhile .
Wedge is to small? I know your draglining and all OSHA bets are off.
Wedge & becket are fine . Keep guessing ? If OSHA shows up I will hand them a grease gun & put them to work on a real job . LOL !
Got the first pond bailed out & moved on to the next one . Prepped it with the skid loader first taking out trees & building a causeway for Old Roy . Those two make a pretty good team but don't tell them I said that . LOL !
Anyone know where to put Freon in these K-12 cranes ? It's blowing hot air out of the evaporator core . Or is that the radiator ? Oh well .
Once worked around a fella could cast a American Dragline like a open face reel. Could almost get the bucket to twice boom length.
Yep , on the last pond in post #17 I could reach it all from one position just with a strait cast . You can play a funky move just after releasing the bucket on the cast by pulling in the main line to gain momentum and as the bucket reaches it's total swing through the curve let both drums go . It's like throwing a fast ball at a water moccasin . Sorry Bout that mister mud crawlin viper Got done this evening with the second pond . Old Roy did fine . I like this system as the machine is setting high & dry in the middle of the dam and let the bucket do the work .
We have an " Emergency HEF Message " . There was a Mud slide in south Indiana this afternoon . We expect buy the direction it's headed it will be passing though parts of Kentucky , Tennessee and Alabama . This is a slow moving mud slide so may take a few weeks before she comes to a stop somewhere in the delta . Do not attempt to drive though the mud slide . Just report it to local officials when in sight . Cause of the slide has all the experts baffled ? This ends the " Emergency HEF Message " .
Nice looking machine you have there. It looks like a fun job to.
Thanks Tugger2 . We gave him a paint job last summer . He was sure due for one LOL ! Got to be carful on these jobs ! Before ya know it that's all you will want to do . Get to feeling bad late at night that we charged them for hoggin the mud out .
TD, you wanna be careful with that mudslide... I know a guy that mucked out a pond and had our state Fish and wildlife fine him for destroying a "salmon" stream. the state ecology department came in and nailed him with another pollution violation for mud in a waterway. The salmon stream was easy to dodge, A dry streambed with a 250' elevation change in less than a mile aint gonna work for fish. But slinging mud on his own property was a little tougher to fight. In the end he won out... at the cost of more than a few bucks. Worst was he had rented my old 9050 Case excavator and Fish and Wildlife wanted to seize it as evidence. View attachment 183719 [/QUOTE]
What you see is pretty typical on a pond clean out in my area . Let the mud rest & dry for about a year then come back next summer with the dozer & use the material on the dam . Yep , I've heard the horror stories of what you guys have to deal with out west . My buddy mike owns a home in Arizona with a swimming pool . Every 3 or 4 years they pump the water out & change it . House is in the middle of nowhere out in the desert . They normally just pump the water to a " dry wash " on the edge of the property . This is supposedly illegal to do . His pool guy showed up last week and pumped the pool out . Instead of letting the water flow out the dry wash he hooked the outlet to the septic tank inspection pipe . Talk about a mess ! Sewage overflowing out the shower drains & toilets . Easy 6 figure screwup . You cat's heard that Don issued Pardons to the Hammonds last week . https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.159420571b97
At my previous employer we had three **** Ponds or Lagoons for the poop to settle out, chemistry tested the water in the final decanting station where it showed as clean or cleaner with a more balanced pH than any stream pond or road ditch puddle still could NOT discharge it to a stream ditch or even try to reuse in-plant so had to send it to a fourth evaporation pond. Once water has had ANY chemical applied EVEN as it has exhausted or dissipated the DNR in MO calls it waste water and cannot be openly discharged.
A local dairy has their waste ponds tied into an irrigation system that waters 2250 acres, requires lots of failsafe check valves and such, but the state Dept of Ecology loves it and it's free fertilizer. In the fall and winter they spread the solid stuff and haul the liquid out onto the fields with tankers. I get to fix their tankers and spreaders, Luckily they have a fire hose and wash the trucks before I see them. Otherwise... no Bueno, or pay me to wash them too.
Worked Honey Buckets myself both Human and AG. Had to be Cleaned out, Pressure washed and BLEACH added internally/externally to kill some of the bio articles. SUCKED big time not knowing what little drip was and from where it came. Can't get it all off or out but they did try. A few farms out here have Center Pivot Irrigation systems, use the waste water from the closest small town, has to be lagoon managed with aeration and such through a set of three to five ponds depending city size before can be used for 'Livestock ONLY Feed Stocks'.
It's rather odd (or maybe not) that human waste processed through most treatment plants is a no go for crops we eat, but untreated cow poo fertilizer is a go for any food stock. I do realize people flush a lot of really bad stuff too.
DMiller , You guys have many " lagoon " type septic systems ? Local contractor buddy has some family in Missouri . He was telling me they use a septic tank for solids & the water just drains in to a small pond / lagoon verses installing leach lines . Anything to that ?
Is true for many counties N of the Missouri River line and south of I-44, too much clay, will not transfer or transmit water into the soil to evaporate so they use lagoons to allow that process. Our region is Loess soil, similar to clay in it does pack but is porous as a sponge, we have leach fields. And if you must know, some Poor people just run the outbound lines to the nearest ditch and let it fly no septic, no lagoon, no leach beds until they either get caught or have plumbing issues they cannot mend themselves. When the smell gets bad enough neighbors usually chime in and call MO DNR(Department of Natural Resources) they then have to make repairs or face condemnation and proceedings in court.
The Insley crane has Waukesha gas engines in the truck and house . Moved the rig 17 miles to the job . Took about 45 minutes . Truck engine burnt about 7 gallons of Go Go juice getting to the job site . That did not surprise me to much pulling hills & such with the throttle mashed on a 65 year old 40,000 pound plus gas burner rig What did surprise me was the house engine ….. Run it around 1,200 RPM when draggin . Fuel burn rate was rite at 2 gallon per hour . Hell ….. My lawn mower dang near burns a gallon an hour cuttin grass . No complaints on fuel use for what it accomplished .
That would be a good system for tight clay . Dig a small lagoon & let it evaporate . I like that !
Now you cat's know the difference between a drag line on a job and a slot machine in a casino ? Yank the handle on the drag line and you win every time .
They say that as a after treatment to septic systems the lagoons do not reek or have much odor at all, I do not care for the thought of one. Years ago a friend's family had a farm near to Bachelor MO, they tried three times to set a leach field avoiding at all cost a lagoon, they ended up with a sewage treatment septic tank system, three stage tank, two aerators a precise amount of biologic dry additive for each month and could discharge to the ground openly. Seller stated the water tested cleaner than their well, the county proved that as true. Big thing on that was maintenance, every six months aerators came out, exchanged, tank bubbler system removed cleaned and reinstalled, tank HAD to be pumped out when solids in the first tank reached a prescribed depth. Do not know if the current owners still maintain it or just added a lagoon.
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Very smooth and consistent. Me... I would just tangle that stuff up.
You and I both, I can birdsnest the best reels!!
Seems like that's how it works RZ . Ya get to the end of the job & everything works smoother . Now last Tuesday afternoon was a bit tangled when we busted the main line and had to wade out in the drink to fetch the whip end of the cable . Not cool ! Thank God for the " Happy Hour " bar & grill . LOL !
Old Roy don't move to bad down the road even if he bumps the governor at 45 MPH in the tall gear . LOL! He still thinks it's 1950 something . I aint gonna tell him what year it is ? Settle down Roy ! Eisenhower will get a second term . And stop playing that " Doo Wop " music on the radio . They got this new sound called " Rock & Roll " . LOL
Lots of fun running around with all your boom. I think our days of doing that are gone around here.
That Waukesha sounds good on the road.
The 45' boom is about the limit when moving . Roy is pretty short on wheelbase so that helps along with a good " Blocker Buddy " to help out when pulling out of an intersection .
Its the 3" glass pack muffler & flair tip on the exhaust . LOL !
Gotta go scope out another old pond .. Feller stopped buy as we was hoggin out the last pond on the job . " Hey .... You fellers from around here ? I got a pond full of cattails " . No rest for Old Roy , what's old is now new .
Worked for an outfit that had a an old R 190 IH a frame boom truck with a 501, we put a 4" straight vertical stack on the thing for the heck of it, no muffler... it sounded pretty nice actually.