85 foot elevated platform pics

[Mace Canute]

Isn't it amazing how short a distance seems to be when viewed horizontally but how great it seems to be when viewed vertically?

 

[slowzuki]

A place I worked used to lower people into 60 ft deep, 30" diameter boreholes on a bosun's chair to anchor a diamond wire saw pulley. The guy's said that was a strange feeling too, as they would have worked in the same chair on a 80 ft boom in high winds over water the same day.

We use a 30 ton crane with jib boom to access the evaporator tower tops at work. 109' up. It is an interesting feeling to climb over the railing of the man basket at that height and onto the platform.

 

[Rustyiron]

You havn't lived until you've maxed out a 135/65 , 135' boom with a 65' quike stick . It's the wierdest feeling i've ever had . We use them alot at power plants and factories

Brother, you got to be a half bubble off! Been up in a JLG600s on a bldg lot on the side of a mountain and the dumpster looked like the size of a pack of matches! 135' plus 65', holy .........! Hey, get some pics.

 

[brokenot]

Curious about the license comment- the rental place said nothing to us nor gave any instruction..it just showed up on a flatbed and was dumped for our use, we were on our own to figure it out

At least half of the phone calls we get when a machine is on site are due to "mis-cues" made by the operators. The reason instructions from a delivery driver are scarce, is because the operators manual for a big boom is typically ~100 pages or so. Manual(s) are required to be on the machines. The manufacturer-issued operators manual, a responsibilities manual, and an ANSI manual should be there if it's a rental machine in the US. A delivery driver giving a complete set of instructions would be tied up for half a day doing so. And by the time he finished up, what he said at the beginning would have been long forgotten.

Not sure why, but there's a strange aversion to reading operators manuals for lots of stuff. Often times, by the time I drive 50 miles or so to a site, I arrive to see the machine up and running fine.

"We figured it out...." is often the reply. On something as potentially hazardous as a big boom though, the manufacturers just don't leave much to the imagination nor speculation.