My Real Job

unbelievable!!

you like BIG toys, don’t you??

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Now THAT’S what I’m talking about.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

You Betcha. Bring-er-on

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Wonder what species of wood those mats are? Make some mighty nice project stock :-))

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

I love to watch cranes in operation. Thanks for sharing, those logs you toss around on your saw mill are small potatoes for you, when you go home.

They just built a wood burning addition to our local public utilitiees plant last year, with a crane just yours.

I had to get a closer look.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Here’s a few pix from today. I got the steel forman Nick to pop some pix fer me. In the third pic, you can see the connectors waiting for the steel. Each one of those beams weights right at 2000lbs. The Headache ball alone weights 1600lbs.

-- Thanks The WoodButcher http://woodbutchernc.tripod.com/

Half way done with the seventh floor and we’ve only been on the job three weeks. Also, this is only half of the building.

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HI all, heres some new pix of my job.

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tinker toys!

Look at the size of those two workers compared to the structure… fascinating

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Boys and their toys <grin> pretty cool. I love the last one , the silhouette (damn hard word to spell :) How many megipixels did you capture that at? Is it enough to get a blow up?

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Should be Snowdog

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Woodbutcher,

Very Cool! The pictures give new meaning to the term “Erector Set” – if you remember those.

You should count yourself as fortunate that you get to build things at work and in your shop.

-- Mark, Webster New York, Visit my website at http://thecraftsmanspath.com

Very cool job!
You need good reflexes and that “cetain sense” of your surroundings that only few men have.
I found out that almost anybody can do it once , but only the pros can do it all the time.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Hi Mark Mazzo, Bob. I do count it as a blessing to have the ability to operate cranes for a living. I could have a shovel in my hands in the cold, rainy weather. Also it’s like Bob said anybody can do it once or twice, but to do it all day, every day for 30 years and NOT hurt anyone has to be a blessing. It’s alot of fun when you have a good team of connectors in the sky.
Steel work isn’t the only work I have done with cranes either. I have done tons of barge work on bridges. Loaded ships at port everglades fl for a spell as well.

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Hi all, here’s a few pix from the 10th floor.

Evelator Shaft

Iron Pile

Iron Pile #2

Fan Section, Ha…. You Thought I had fans LOL

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After watching my Brother in Law so effortlessly regrade the back yard, with this “tiny” rental (and seeing that both my father in law and I couldn’t get it to do much beyond spasm, I totally can appreciate what it takes to operate those big puppies. What’s equally impressive is that he hasn’t used anything like this in decades.

No that aint my BIL, that’s my little one, (he’s right behind her in the shadows, and no it’s not in operation at the time of this photo)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I got dizzy !!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)