Crane In A Cemetery!!! WHY ME? 

Thanks! I feel your pain with your boss. I don't think "No" is in the vocabulary of the people who don't have to do the work. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

If it wasn't for the yes, we wouldn't have this video to watch 😁

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Thank you! Yes, being a native of the area, you would understand the funding part of it. The cemetery they moved to is far nicer. Hope you are doing well! Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Yeah, one of the bigger names and companies in the area. I worked there as a temp over 20 years ago in the warehouse. Good place to work.

Thanks Barry! Hope you are doing well down there in NZ. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

@@ToTheTopCrane certainly warmer than where you are thanks for asking.

Everything is good here. Hope you are doing well! Many thanks for watching! 🏗

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Thank you! I just had to have a hiatus. RU-vid can be a tough one. It's far more work than most realize. Many thanks for sticking around and for watching! 🏗

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Hope you are doing well! It is a lot of work and money that I am glad that I am neither doing nor spending. Lol. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

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Thanks Matt! I don't usually have any issues with local traffic. Most people stay pretty far away. When I am steering the rear manually, I use some switches on the console to control the rear axles. In auto mode, the computer steers the rear up to a set speed, then the rear steer is locked out. I have to use more than one part of line to handle my counterweights. So tearing the crane down required the multiple parts of line, which we just left alone once we saw where we were setting the stone. Which made it faster. From the time we backed into where the stone was to be placed, to when we were done, was literally under 20 minutes. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

The road wasn't as bad as I thought. I could see it moving under the tires, but it didn't mess it up. Hope you are doing well! Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Thank you! I'll see what I can do. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

@@ToTheTopCrane no Thank You for sharing!!

Slow and steady wins the race sometimes. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Just imagine if there were two hereditary feuding families buried in that graveyard, this was the family monument for one of them, and it accidentally dropped on the monument of the other family...

Thank you! Let's see.....4th street you say??? Do you work at RS or I&M? Many thanks for watching! 🏗

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That's what they say! Lol. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

No poltergeist, thankfully! It has been a few days. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

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Thank you! Congrats on getting your CDL and pursuing a career in the world of cranes. It is fun and stressful at the same time. So be prepared. I have been with this company around seven years. The scale in our area is in the low $40's per hour plus benefits. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

It has been a few days. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

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@@ToTheTopCrane Natch. You're one of my fav subs. We need more "doing sketchy things with a crane" videos. =)

It is indeed an old cemetery! It is also not crane friendly. Lol Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Thank you! I wasn't very flat. I don't remember the actual boom angle. But I could look at the chart and tell you. So, I'll get back to you on that part of it. Many thanks for watching!

I was in the neighborhood of a 33° boom angle.

@@ToTheTopCrane Many thanks Jimmy :) Always a pleasure watching your videos and it still, even now after many years of watching heavy recovery wreckers and cranes, surprises me just how quickly your lifting capacity drops off as the boom angle extends and with stick and where the lift is not off the back where the vehicle is at its strongest!

Me too! But mid turn was not the time to jump out and set up a camera. Lol

No tip for the tree trimming. I guess that was just a bonus for them. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

The trees will grow back...until next time😁

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The ball weighs 660 pounds. The block weighs 1800 pounds. So changing to the single part, removes almost 1200 pounds of deduction. Which gives me an additional 1200 pounds for the pick if necessary. Hope that all makes sense. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Ice does indeed work. Even bags of ice work. On this one, they set it on wood, then removed the wood later. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

That is how those big monster Safe's in Walmarts are moved in. Crane sets it on a trail of ice and just 2 Guys push it through the Doors and down to the Money Room followed by People with Shop Vac's to pickup the Ice . That was neat to see. Mike M. Central WI.

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Not sure on the psi of ground pressure. In the configuration that I was in, it's roughly 14k per tire. 10 tires on the ground. The tires are 525/80R-25. So they have a pretty significant footprint.

I wouldn't have done it on Friday the 13th. I would've rescheduled that one myself.

I usually try to keep it spotless when the camera is in the cab. Given the tree situation, I didn't mess with cleaning it. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Hi Josh! Hope all is well! Many thanks for watching! 🏗

range is exactly the issue. I'll give you an example... my 17ton boomtruck has a capacity of 34,000 lbs at 5ft horizontal distance from the centerline of rotation. at 75ft distance it is only 700lbs. Then you have all the under hook capacity deductions (jib stowed to main boom, weight of the cable downhaul weight, even the weight of the cable itself etc etc.) I have set 7,500lb cemetary markers before with my little boom truck, but I was parked very close.

@@petejohnson8397 Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

There are pressure transducers in the boom cylinder hydraulic circuit. The computer uses the values from those transducers, along with boom length and angle (using a bunch of math and magic) to determine the weight of what is hanging out there. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

and some have a strain sensor on the load line itself

Hiding! (Not really). Just deciding on which way I want to take the channel. I think I have it figured out. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

Count me as one of the ones glad to see you are back!

Or squeeze out zombie juice. Lol.

I probably would've packed up my stuff and quit my job. Lol.

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They didn't want to operate any machines over any of the graves. Apparently there are lots of unmarked graves and wooden caskets with no vaults in that cemetery. So crane it was. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

I'm kinda superstitious with stuff like this. I definitely wasn't going to be the one to put a shovel in the ground. Lol!

Doing well! Hope you are doing well too! Many thanks for watching! 🏗

That would've been a BIG NO from me. There's no way I would involve myself in that part of if. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

@@ToTheTopCrane bad juju?

So far......none. many thanks for watching! 🏗

The paper work involved in the moving of remains is really involved. Doesn't always depend on family. Local governments usually get involved with permits for exhmation, transport, reinterpret and the cost from the cemetery for lots, opening and closing the Graves, new vaults and that's just the start. Yeah this kind of thing really is for families with waaaaay too much money.

It would seem so. Lol. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

I guess you could call it death consolidation 😁 they're supposed to be in heaven. Their corpses don't really need to be together. It's not like they're going to be having parties and get togethers down here. Lol.

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Rumor has it....it's closer to 3x's that amount. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

On a job like this that requires taking the crane into ridiculously tight spaces reachable only by inadequate road, I would expect there to be verbiage in the contract that makes it clear that the crane company is not responsible for specific types of property damage. You'd have to be crazy to take on such a job without having everything spelled out in lawyer-approved and maybe even insurance company-approved detail. And if the customer won't sign it's "no crane for you!"

We are located in a commercial zone. This particular job and any of them that you see where I am not in the dolly, are inside that zone. The commercial zone allows higher axle weights than highway travel. Also, we don't travel any designated highway routes inside the zone. City streets are covered under municipal laws. Many thanks for watching! 🏗

@@ToTheTopCrane wow, what a difference from here in so cal. We can't do that here. Thank you very much, stay safe, and stay healthy!