the 'todays job' thread

[Mike Hill]

8 hours ago, AHPP said:

As far as I can tell, knuckleboom sizes are done in tonne metres. So if that blue one lifts 6 tonnes at 3 metres, it'd be an 18 tonne metre crane. On another thread a while ago you said you'd have used a 100 tonne hiab for something. Did you mean 100 tonne metre?

 

Internet not super clear on this subject. What's the common way people size and a describe them?

 

 

Not sure. 3 meters would be inside the outriggers?

 

I am working with a whopper hiab on Tuesday so will get the skinny on it.

 

 

[Joe Newton]

A 100t crane will lift 100t @1m from the centre of the boom.

[topchippyles]

3 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

A 100t crane will lift 100t @1m from the centre of the boom.

In Wales Joe its 200 ton with the same 100 ton crane 😁💪

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

A 100t crane will lift 100t @1m from the centre of the boom.

Curious, is the truck and hiab more than a 100t?

 

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Curious, is the truck and hiab more than a 100t?

 

Doesn't have to be. They can lift far more than what they weigh close in with outriggers and counterweight.

[flyingjoiner]

Not any pics of the actual job, just chipping a load of brush for a mate after the 9to5, but did have some visitors while chipping😁

[Mark Bolam]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Curious, is the truck and hiab more than a 100t?

 

Think of a 100kg bloke deadlifting 200kg Mick.

It’s the same principle, sort of.

[woody paul]

Job I started last we and finished Wednesday, 200 meters of Estate fencing and pair of gate replaced old post and rail. Just need to paint once fluff has stopped falling off Poplars.. 

Edited June 13 by woody paul

[sime42]

1 hour ago, flyingjoiner said:

Not any pics of the actual job, just chipping a load of brush for a mate after the 9to5, but did have some visitors while chipping😁

They look almost like giant Shaggy Ink Caps. 

[AHPP]

6 hours ago, Joe Newton said:

A 100t crane will lift 100t @1m from the centre of the boom.

I must get to the bottom of this. Have asked a few drivers and never got enough convincing enough and similar enough answers to commit it to memory. 
 

I think knucklebooms have a different naming/sizing convention to stickbooms. Possibly what you describe is a 100 tonne metre knuckleboom. I’m sure I’ve read something about stick booms (or maybe even some other type) being measured at 2.3 m (or some other, relatively precise number) out, presumably from the centre of the slew ring. So a 60 tonne stickboom would lift that at 2.3 m out.