Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

Clearly earns him the bread tho!

no question ...... used to have two yards, in Hereford and Stroud ... 6 and 8 machines respectively, up to 140 tonnes .... sold the lot to Sparrows, but kept the Hereford premises, which now has 6 'units' on it .... and makes a lot more, with just him, picking and choosing his jobs with this superb weapon, which is a 'Roller' in comparison to a lot of gear out there ..... not all milk and honey ... cost him £5k for an engine ECU last year and nine hundred quid for a matching key fob, 'cos Liebherr couldn't find the codes for the old key fob for him to have re-programmed into the new ECU ....... took the shine off the year .. but it is pure luxury as far as mobile cranes go ..... and it's over ten years old!

 

[Cyberprog]

Ouch. Liebherr should have stumped up on that one. Not great CX!

 

[Lancs Lad]

following Russ in the Forest is an OMG experience ... I'll swear he had daylight under the off side back wheels occasionally on some of the horrific cambers .. it's a very top heavy tool .... std Scania truck chassis ... with Liebherr's crane deck, riggers, etc bolted on (and Russ has uprated the springing all round).... only two in the country and a few much bigger 45 tonners on 8 legs .... it is so compact though, will get in where a traditional 20 tonner'd struggle and with the swing out rigger, instead of 'square on' tele outs, it has a phenomenal footprint and all the weight sat on the pads .. TBH it is a superb tool and can see just why Russ imported it from Germany
would be more popular if they weren't so expensive

Often wondered why there wasn't more of them truck based cranes over here after seeking them in Germany etc.

 

[Lancs Lad]

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Fair few timbers under her Gra

 

[Routy56]

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followed by some wall panels .... 15" thick ...
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Russ had a job booked for nine this morning that couldn't be put off ... has had a road closure booked for weeks, so he had to pull off site last night, which was even more challenging than getting in ....
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usual story .... crap an' tish dumped everywhere ... and always in the way ... being a day late starting on this 'cos of the scaffolders, other wise we'd have been a lot further ahead
so this morning was -- a bit tight
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if the bloke hadn't had the garage dug into the face, no way would've there been the room to half rig .... will do just over a tonne half rigged flat boom

up up and away
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and in ... customers well happy
lovely spot

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wrapped up and the guy next door comes wandering down ...... " any chance of doing the same for me sometime please? " walked up and looked at it .. no garage - no way José ..... the crane fills the road with no where to put the riggers
Had to walk half a mile backwards, with a two way radio, 'steering' Russ back down to where we could turn around ...
job did ... back to Lydney
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got back in in exactly the same spot - the one rigger is jammed in a corner and amanged to get the pad in its exact footprint from yesterday ... cab with a view ... waiting for a lorry load ... having some breccy
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this gives a better idea of how steep that access is
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finished off the walls on the 'ground' floor ..

Great report Gra of you out playing with more 'boys toys' - brilliant, thanks for sharing it with us mere mortals

 

[V8Druid]

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Fair few timbers under her Gra

nice tidy cribbing job that ...... have done similar with an 18t Grove, putting cabins into a school in a valleys town here .... some serious hills in some of these places .... could walk under the front wheels of the 18 ..... truck load of cribbing went to site with the machine .. 14" square baulks ... took longer to get her in the air and down again than to put the three cabins in .... got some paper pix somewhere

 

[Lancs Lad]

nice tidy cribbing job that ...... have done similar with an 18t Grove, putting cabins into a school in a valleys town here .... some serious hills in some of these places .... could walk under the front wheels of the 18 ..... truck load of cribbing went to site with the machine .. 14" square baulks ... took longer to get her in the air and down again than to put the three cabins in .... got some paper pix somewhere

Was wondering how long it took em to get it that high.

 

[V8Druid]

Great report Gra of you out playing with more 'boys toys' - brilliant, thanks for sharing it with us mere mortals

thanks Dave ... just another day in Druid land ... have done it most of me life, but usually interesting stuff ..... was 14, when i started operating regularly -- a 10RB and an old COLES Victor and an Argus.
second floor walls and roof panels tomorrow hopefully, if they've had a decent day on site today ..... really good gang to work with .. all nice fellas..

 

[V8Druid]

Was wondering how long it took em to get it that high.

lets just say .... quite some time ....you jack as much as you can then crib tight under the rigger beams .. drop it onto the beam cribbing, withdraw the jacks .. crib them and extend - etc. aaaand repeat ..... 'til you'm up level

 

[V8Druid]

lovely sky last night .....

and been a cracking day .... for splitting blocks
'nother load for the wood shed should see it stuffed and a few into one of me storage boxes too I'd hope

then had a bit of a tidy up with the 'Drema - which started first flick as usual

two stacks .... Morso size and a pile that're gonna need re-sizing to fit the Morso and splitter .

got that finished off after tea ...... lost a couple of hours this afternoon to Clara ... was well pleased to see Grand dad waiting for her at school ... especially as she wasn't expecting me today ...... and then gave the splitter a bit more exercise and filled a cage ....

got two more to fill and three pallet boxes .... 'fore starting on ten vented bags.... said I was gonna go for it .
Clive (tree man) called by for a cuppa and some bucks ... apparently he let 'sad act' next door have a load 'bout two months ago and been chasing him to pay ever since --- was gonna try his luck again (after his cuppa and a slice of cake), with his foot jammed firmly in his door --- 'sad act' won't be getting any more from Clive, by the sound of it

Pam's tommies're coming along nicely .... some're like triffids ..... remarkable how quickly they grow ..... bet it's been bloody warm in there today ... had cooled down a bit this evening, when they got watered. ... been 26C here today - in the shade - which this ain't

time for bed ...... gotta be at Russ's in Ross for 7am ... we've got to eat the next instalment of this at brekky time on site ....

we're working our way through one of Pam's cappuccino cakes ... tough work, but someone has to take the job on ....... and we both love this particular one of Pam's cakes
g'night all

 

[Jimoz]

How are crane jobs like these priced, is it like an hourly rate?

Think I've heard hot tubs being 400 to get in but that's like a standard over the wall or fence jobby not that operation. Perhaps they paid double?

 

[Jimoz]

Is that crane on a remote type control @V8Druid? We had one on site last week meant to take a pic for you. Decent tool had to go back to Germany recently. Had a inspection before they rigged it up for a man basket and apparently found cracks in the boom!

 

[V8Druid]

Is that crane on a remote type control @V8Druid? .......

yeh ... me .... Russ sits there pulling levers, doing as he's told ...... particularly when he can't see

 

[V8Druid]

#3 ready to get put away

followed by #4

which I stuck away when I got back Friday night

# 5 got split on a very warm Sunday, together with a cage basket full too ..... left this one sat this morning when I left for Lydney ...

bit of a difference from this .......

to this.....

 

[TiltyShaun]

#3 ready to get put away

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followed by #4

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which I stuck away when I got back Friday night
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# 5 got split on a very warm Sunday, together with a cage basket full too ..... left this one sat this morning when I left for Lydney ...

bit of a difference from this .......
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to this.....
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It is like watching a rerun on BBC

 

[V8Druid]

It is like watching a rerun on BBC

is there anything else on BBC ..... it's all repeats ......
as for this ... it's different wood, just looks the same ...
keep up Shaun ... was 3 loads delivered whilst I've been out with Russ most of the week and I've processed a fair bit of it
just about to start on it yet again, 'fore the sun gets round onto the back of the Zetor

31C here (Lydney) yesterday and was soaking myself down with a hose every hour ... was too hot to breathe, let alone run about slinging/banking up and down 3 lifts of scaff. ........ the air con. in the cab of the crane on the way home at half five, was luxury

 

[V8Druid]

It is like watching a rerun on BBC

is there anything else on BBC ..... it's all repeats ......
as for this ... it's different wood, just looks the same ...
keep up Shaun ... was 3 loads delivered whilst I've been out with Russ most of the week and I've processed a fair bit of it
just about to start on it yet again, 'fore the sun gets round onto the back of the Zetor

31C here (Lydney) yesterday and was soaking myself down with a hose every hour ... was too hot to breathe, let alone run about slinging/banking up and down 3 lifts of scaff. ........ the air con. in the cab of the crane on the way home at half five, was luxury

tonight's episode @TiltyShaun
Pam put this lot in the boxes, Friday while I was out playing cranes

and this lot from today's efforts will finish 'em off and make a tidy stack where the 4th box'd be,if i had one

have also filled another cage today .... and made a major dent in the Morso sized pile of rounds

some of the lumps at the bottom were.. lumps !!

they're now much smaller lumps

now at the point where Charlie the chainsaw is gonna have to have a conversation with what's left ... really looking forward to that - NOT - too bloody warm for wielding Charlie about

Friday and Monday's days with Russ were unbelievably hot .... as said above ... thank God for a hose pipe on site .. spent the days melting
couple of random pix from Friday/Monday ....

fair play to these guys they worked hard Thursday getting the first floor down ready for us on the Friday to put the next lift of walls up

Monday'd have gone a lot better if the bloody ridge beam'd been the right size when it went in ..... too kin tall ... back out and notch it/fanny about ... we'd have been home two hours earlier if it'd been as drawing

second load of roof panels arrived Monday, just after we got there and set up, bang on cue ....
first one on

second one dropping in

having 'em slung right made it a doddle ...... had all eleven of 'em on in under an hour and that included juggling five of 'em about on the floor ... blokes in the yard loading these were taking the piss with the order they'd loaded 'em on the trucks -- first two on the bottom of a stack .. then totally random order - tossers -- last one dropping in

clients, who'd turned up to watch the roof going on, were well impressed with the speed it went on at

this was that pair of walls we had to jam the leg in between ... four bloody times .... Russ got it cock on three out of four, but had to juggle a bit Monday ... was 4" too close to the scaff ... so couldn't get the leg out that side ..... was that tight

hell of a rigger spread on this machine ..... 'swhy its got such a reach and huge capacity for a 35
if anyone wants to see more pix of the timberframe going together there're a lot more in me 'bucket

scans 2

app.photobucket.com

 

[V8Druid]

forgot to put these up the other night ..... and surprised that no one's been mythering ........

dunno as this was a salesman's model type of thing, but it's real dinky and fully functional (with some propulsion) ..... never seen another like it - at this scale .... chap i had it from said he'd had it 40 years and wasn't new when he acquired it ...... haven't had time to look for any maker's marks on it yet .. been a bit busy

Huge thanks to Matt @pettsy for sorting it in Buxton for me was very much appreciated

 

[Cyberprog]

How dinky.

Fisher Price "my first finger slicer" maybe?

If you do it up, you could paint it those colours.

 

[V8Druid]

How dinky.

Fisher Price "my first finger slicer" maybe?

If you do it up, you could paint it those colours.

that's the intention Alex ..... get some mixed up to suit and get the machined faces back to summat near right, then lacquered, 'praps .. look OK sat on the wall