Know This Before Renting Boom Lifts 

Start picking up some cut outs and you'll find yourself in need of one. :)

When Bruce's new queens take off next summer, he'll be renting one to add supers to his hives, lol Carter Hill won't have nothing on him, hope that made all ya'll laugh a little.

@@628DirtRooster LOL, Randy if I was 35 years younger and had all your money and bee removal connections, I'd be done bought me one them used Isuzu bucket trucks with the 50' arm and the 50' crane extention option and equipped it with pto driven 10,000 watt generator 3 phase capable if needed and a pecan sprayer fan vac called tha Southern Mississippi Bee Vac, equipped with 300' flexible 6" vacuum hose and self adjusting waist gate so it doesn't harm the bees, all this empties the bees into a triple deep brood with drawn comb so no rescue is too big, it also has a slideout queen excluder and photo eye so you can always find and cage the queen, the unit has 8 Gopro portables cams so you record the extraction which only takes 5 minutes once you take a 6" hole saw a make the entrance big enough to attach the vac hose and go about the hive with you LoRob OAV with your blend of OA and Honeybee Gone, to chase the bees out and treat for varroa mites at the same time, it also has a heavy duty vacuum pump that socks all the comb, honey and wax out after removing the bees and puts it through wax separator and bottles honey mixed with pollen so can sell it for $95 a pound like Dr. Leo of Horizontalhives.com , anyway you've gotten José Rodriguez and his family, which are all former beekeepers from Guadalajara to drive the boom truck, while his wife and kids are tending the beeyards and grafting 150 new queens a week.

More to come!

She’s a go getter. I have to hide the ladder to keep her off the roof if we have overhanging limbs.

You needed a paint ball gun.

I sunk one of these one time.

They now make man lifts with caterpillar-like tracks. Much lighter footprint.

You said it. Ladders give you the hook foot after a couple of hours.

They usually give us a harness with the lift but it must be a small. Haha

@@628DirtRooster we’ve had a few fellow electricians back in the day that a small harness did not fit either. So they became ground men!!! Lol!!!

LOL meaning it's for your wife to paint with, it'd take 3 smalls to fit you, D.R.

Yep and when you have one set up and leave for a while and it suddenly won't work check the level. They leak down.

🤣 🤣 Now that would have made a good video.

@@628DirtRooster 😆 that was a couple years before I started making videos.

Right on! That's how it's done.

Yeah, I could write a book on that one. You taking bees out with it? 😉

Yeah Jeff's gonna find the queen quickly and put her on dozer, then get the bees to push the house back to the Abby.

They can give you rubber knees.

LMAO, she knows he'll turn it over extended 50' and might break the house in, Rooster ain't a little biddy fellow. I'm pickin, but I've seen your wife beside you in videos before.

Here in the states they will rent one of those to anyone. We like to let the stupid weed themselves out naturally. There is no training requirement generally. On large facilities there may be a card and there would definitely be training. Can't have people learning how to run a lift in a place where they could hurt people or damage a bunch of stuff.

@@628DirtRooster I see. Thanks for response. I edited my post to correct all the spelling mistakes. I should reply late at night less

Rooster, if it's heavy equipment and has an hour meter make sure you ask the hour rate as well as the day rate, because if you run the dozer or backhoe ect. over the allowed hours per day they'll hit you by hourly rate, I'm sure you know this by your write a book comment, I meant it those who might not know, always refuel it also, they'll add about $2 per gallon to their fuel cost.

I though about it but since it was just advice on a man lift I figured I save some of those tips for the next time we rent an excavator or a skid steer. I thought about going really deep on the lift including setup, use and special precautions but even this video isn’t something my subscribers really want to see.

Ha! I got him one.

Thanks so much y'all.

Haha That's right.

Glad you enjoyed it

Here they’re called a hi-ab or cherry picker

Where I'm from a spider lift is a basket suspended from a cable that is on a winch mounted to the basket.. Weld a padeye under the deck of an oil rig or whatnot and winch yourself up as needed

Yep unless the self leveling feature doesn't rise above the height of uncompressed suspension.

She likes to paint. When she's done I get in it and trim trees.

You are right! My bad.

That's right Mr. Don. Got any special requests? :)

Yes, he got stung

Mine has painted ours twice. I have to hold her back.

@@628DirtRooster She's a keeper. I got old looking. :(

Rooster was my dirt bike. 628cc was the engine size. I was originally going to do dirt bike videos. Because of the channel name I got stuck with Rooster or Dirt Rooster as my nick name.

@@628DirtRooster Thanks Randy 👊. Do you still Ride? JO JO

I am surely blessed.

Thanks 👍

You dog lol, just kidding she's probably painter than you 🤣

Pete can pinch pennies for sure.

There was a bunch of it too.

Just send me the address.

@@628DirtRooster Too eager. You're going to charge me mileage also. I've been watching for a beat up, old, pickup mounted bucket truck just to do my gutters. They're high. I intend to park it on my buddy's farm and get a transit tag or trailer it once a year. But those things just don't show up like they used to.

@@snarky_user I dunno, Darren on the Mustie1 channel seems to be able to find them with ease, and being the fixer-upper that he is, he buys the cheapest, usually most broken one he can find, makes a great video figuring out all the faults and correcting them. He's done 2 bucket trucks now. Yeah, he's up there in the NorthEast in New Hampshire. Not sure about availability in your neck of the weeds. Er... woods. Your neck of the woods. And don't get too snarky on me. I can only handle so much snark in a day.

Hey Buckshot which video is it and where is it?