Day Turned Into Night! 

A new T3C video makes a great way to start a Saturday morning !

Jimmy you did great job there, I run slinger/signaller coarse over here in Scotland and those guys were absolutely terrible on the radio, they obviously have never heard of the 3 second rule in communicating with the crane driver. They really tested your patience on that job!

It had to be frustrating to constantly prompt them just to find out how much further to go and in which direction. At least everyone remained safe at the end of that work day.

You need to arrange a pan/tilt camera out on the end of the boom.

The guy on the tower was a man if few words. What a mess.

Ran into this situation a couple months ago. Had 210 of main boom out with 138 of fixed jib. The job was literally in a cow pasture with really crappy access. Thought we would do the job and then come back the next day to break down. Negative. The assist crane we used had to be on a different job in the morning, so had to break down that night. By the time it was all said and done, I got back to our yard just before midnight, then had a 45 minute drive home. I was pooped the next day. Great video. Thanks for posting.

Nice to see you back! Best wishes from Sweden!

That was an interesting and enjoyable video Jimmy! Thank you and good to see you posting again! 👍

Love the view in the beginning. My most favorite shots show the rig from the side or from far back. Love seeing the tires run and the massive size of the truck on the road.

Love the crane videos.

First of all, well done on the editing job. I really appreciate the time you take to put these really long days together. Secondly, holy cow... I have very little time working at height with a crane. All my time was at 50' and about 75' radius. I learned really quickly that the crane operator really appreciated constant or at least frequent signals to give him a better idea where things were. I cannot fathom how frustrating it would be to try and set precision equipment blind at 240'. Thank you for your patience and bringing us along! Ron

Thx for the vid. Terrible communication from those guys.

I really enjoy you videos

I will have to watch this one later. I have been getting caught up last night and this morning.

Jimmy I understand that makes for a long day with crane signals like that. Good video Jimmy.

Thanks for Your time and efforts to share this with us. Best Wishes.

You will have to mount the sun on the crane next time you have to work that late.

gotta love cell towers over here in seattle my personal record so far is 36hrs straight from the time i got on site tell i left the site. cell work is 60% of the work we do and it helps the check but these guys up there have no idea what they are doing with a crane 90% of the time.

Patience in a night time situation is certainly a virtue Jimmy. You've got that in spades. Interesting antenna upgrade. Do you know if it was for 5G? Gotta love those western Missouri sunsets. I miss them.

I’m thinking that could have gotten done quicker with the proper communication from up top!

It's unbelievable how many times people tell you the size or weight of an object and it's wrong when you get there. 🤔

Makes for a long day with radio communications like that I've been there done that. eartec are duplex helps out a ton when the tag person is like that. Makes me upset to listen to them could be SOOO much better and they do not know its them that are the weak link.

ATT job? They have been doing most all their work off a hook even stuff that is an easy tower rig around here. Been seeing some interesting crane setups.

First!!! Good to hear from you Jimmy!!

Wow. Thats got to be nerve racking to do that at night! Did you haul the guys up/down the tower in the basket, or did they climb?

Hey Jimmy, been a while (Im Zinan Watts, you might remember me, changed my username) ive got a dilemma and I need help so, I do trees, usually they are in a back yard at a 60-100ft radius, and I need to be over the top so 100+ on the tip height the crane we run right now is a 30102WL manitex, it has A frame outriggers and doesnt fit in many spots because of that, also super limited on capacity (sub 2000 pounds usually) would you rather a shorter stick crane that has to be real close, BUT will fit in tight spots and low outrigger load on driveways, or would you want a 50 ton with 150ft of boom, be able to short jack it and can reach most any tree due to the simple fact it fits where the current 30 ton will but has 50% more boom? oh and the 50 ton im looking at (NBT50L) has almost 4X the capacity of the 30 ton for the same radius also, can we see more boom truck content? I know you spend more time on the bigger stuff BUT id love some boom truck videos, especially on setup and cribbing

Would it made sense to run with another insert and additional counterweight even if the tower was 240ft. Was there a disadvantage doing that? BTW, glad to see you back and agree with your thought on different contents

Hey Jimmie !!! Good to see you again & Thanks for the ride !!! 🙂🙃😉 The tallest 1 climbed back in the day was 220 ft. to the top of a water tower to fix the overflow drain pipe !! DON"T think I could do it today at 77 !! HAHA 🤔🙄🙄 Till the next ""Adventure ""---- ""STAY SAFE "" !!! 🤠😎👍👍👍👍👍

Where was this tower?

Love them late nights, they really fluff up the check.

I'm surprised you don't have something like a spotting scope mounted in the cab for jobs like this. Terrible signaling for sure.

You didn't get much help from the tower crew.

Is 32 too late to pursue are career in this?

Boy, if you are going to have to work with that crew a lot, maybe a pan/tilt/zoom security camera mounted on the top of the boom would be helpful. Then you might be able to see the stuff they aren't telling you about.

Do you need an assist crane to add sections to your jib?? I've never seen it done.