We need a crane thread ....... so here it is

William127

William127

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Nice crane on today's job, great driver, shame the slinger/supervisor was a brilliant combination of opinionated and useless...
Good load in the roof for next week's installation though 👍
Got 5 of these to do over the next few months, a weeks minimum site work on each. Mad busy at the moment in all areas of my work 🤔😃
 

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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:oops::oops: so how the hell can they run at a loss for 5 years and survive ?????? :unsure::unsure:


Simple. Most of the losses are what are classed as non cash losses.
You buy a crane on finance. It is depreciated over 5 years. But after 5 years it still has a value higher than in the books. As long as you have the cash to pay the finance and other costs you still have the asset to PX and release the retained value. That lowers your next finance costs. Rinse and repeat.
The key is to keep the cash flowing. Hence why plant and particular crane hire is a tough business. Haulage being particularly bad as you also have to factor high running cash costs (fuel) and an industry that is easy to start up and drive down rates.
But as always, turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but having the cash is king!
 
pettsy

pettsy

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Some reach!

 
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6feetdown

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Some reach!

Some deflection in that 1 bag of sugar on the end of it
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
have often thought that one of these in a workshop'd make a hell of a tool ... set some rails in the floor ..
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Some reach!

picture for posterity ... that is some reach :oops:👏👏
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" This was a fun one! Tight set up with no room for luffer 👀 This power pole ended up coming in just shy of 310’ 💪 Easy to see why the #LTM1450 is a customer favorite! "
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
couple of cheap cranes ... can't decide what this one is ... looking at the boom I'd say circa a 12- 15 tonner - it's a 'modern' boom ... looks very tidy for the money .. pity the damned thing is in Kent
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this is deffo not as advertised .. more like '73 ... again struggling to identify the model, but'd say circa 10 tonner ... loks to be a hybrid/change over to the 120 Hydra from the previous model, looking at the luffing ram positions and legs, but with a newer cab ... which'll be as rotten as a pear
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
seems to be the week for cranes on FB MP
these are lovely tools ... have had a few and loved 'em -- Cummins 504 V8s in mine ...
this looks to have the straight six scania lump in it -- I'd also say it's a TMS150 too -- has the 70 foot all tele boom - no manual extension - they were the cross over from the 1564 to the TMS series - same boom as I cut up, clearing my yard - looks like it'd still put in a day's work though
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
seems to be the week for cranes on FB MP
these are lovely tools ... have had a few and loved 'em -- Cummins 504 V8s in mine ...
this looks to have the straight six scania lump in it -- I'd also say it's a TMS150 too -- has the 70 foot all tele boom - no manual extension - they were the cross over from the 1564 to the TMS series - same boom as I cut up, clearing my yard - looks like it'd still put in a day's work though View attachment 61945
not looking quite so 'prisitine' in this other advert ....
and the engine covers're off :(
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