the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

2 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

Must of been some log pile Mick!  Was it a few years worth?

15/20 or so years, initially I was burning it, but that became illegal around 2010.

They have done 95% of the stuff that the loader (Avant/Multione/compact tractor) was involved in, ie bigger stuff.

The really old stuff was loaded onto the truck by hand so piddling little bits.

Doesn’t seem worth doing as on each cycle the grab can’t get enough to keep the chipper busy, but not my circus, not my monkeys etc….

[Stephen Blair]

I was the same, the time before the internet said log burners were good!  I used to bring it back to the yard and just build it up, some people would help themselves to it, the firewood own log burner guys, then I got my first roof mount and before I knew it after a storm I had a big stack.  Then the firewood guys would bicker and cause hassle so I’d build a big bonfire and torch it.  30-40 tons a couple of times a year.   Looking back that would have been up until around 2010 too.  

[paddyvero]

Was it purely a clean up excercise for you? 

[Mick Dempsey]

5 minutes ago, paddyvero said:

Was it purely a clean up excercise for you? 

Who you talking to Paddy?

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Who you talking to Paddy?

 
Try again, less like you’re trying to start a fight in a pub. 

[josharb87]

On 19/06/2025 at 17:43, AHPP said:

 

Remember to ask matey about crane sizing please. 

 

It been a while since I had my short lived affair with the crane truck, but iirc, for HIAB cranes at least, a 13tm (for example) is exactly that, rated to lift 13 ton at a meter from the center of the crane, quick bit of mental arithmetic and you can work out what it’ll lift at any given meter

13(ton) divided into 2 (meters) = 6,5 ton at 2meters for example 

 

I think it’s always calculated fully boomed out and horizontal 

 

My lifting chart of a 13tm crane started  

at 5200kg @ 2,5m as that was the first available lifting point when horizontal - I don’t know when or to who but apparently this makes it a 5,2ton crane for those unknown people/scenarios - I guess on that line a “20 ton crane” might therefore be 50tm ? 
 

if calculating a job, knowing the tm and max reach will help you know what it’ll lift and at what distance 
 

[paddyvero]

On 16/07/2025 at 08:47, Mick Dempsey said:

Who you talking to Paddy?

It was aimed at you Mick, I should have tagged you. 

[Mick Dempsey]

6 minutes ago, paddyvero said:

It was aimed at you Mick, I should have tagged you. 

Well I just had this mountain of wood piling up, no real plan for it, till some bloke offered to pay me for some of it. 
simple as that. 
 

[paddyvero]

Oh interesting, they came to you. Couldnt be easier. Do you have a decent chunk of land to let it pile up like that? 

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, paddyvero said:

Oh interesting, they came to you. Couldnt be easier. Do you have a decent chunk of land to let it pile up like that? 

3.5 hectares so plenty of room