Long story short I no longer work with the family business. Working as a mechanic now. Apparently they weren't joking when they asked if I was afraid of heights, and if I wanted to work on tower cranes. Told them I've never touched a tower crane but I was a quick learner. So here we are now. Couple little self erectors. Yes it was cold. The third picture was a large crane boom way off in the distance.
Top slewing crane we put up last fall. Think it was 10:30pm Saturday night when I crawled down the ladder. Set the computer and did load tests sunday. Load testing is the only part I have trouble with. Nothing like testing the kickouts when your well over 100' in the air.
Here's a video from when we were moving a jet engine from the power plant into a container for shipping! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=780047628857670
Better you than me. I used to do a lot of climbing building steel grain bins and legs. I never really liked heights, but I just did it anyways. I don't think that today I would be real interested. Maybe I'm just getting lazy.
Took this crane down this weekend. 2 days work taking it down and hauling it out. Didn't have a chance to take many pictures. The wind limit on taking this model down is 33 mph. We did it in 20 mph wind and that sucked. It also snowed 8 or so inches Saturday. I'm sure you guys can imagine cutting a 213' jib loose 150' up in the air in that wind. Overall went pretty well. Did it with a 300t AT and had a 50t helper loading pieces.
That's a big step upward Knepp ! Cool photos ! Looks like your working in Indianapolis .
Fun little weekend job. Set a self erector up on the second floor. Who says cranes can’t fly.
Had to shore the floor, or was it already heavy enough for it? The other tower couldn't keep up, so a second one for the framers?
Bigger tower couldn’t reach the far side. Its on top of a park garage. They built a platform that sits on top of the existing posts. I thought this was a neat picture. 400t or so hydro setting precast out in Philadelphia several weeks back. Neat looking down at cranes.