Playing with the new toy…ur…tool…TOOL today.
TOOL.
Wanted to get used to the boom movement/bounce etc…since I haven’t been on a boom truck since my Llamco Electric days…gad…30ish years ago…and that was a squirt boom instead of a knuckle boom…
Anyway, wanted to test it out and practice a bit before trying to use it up against our building on the historic square in Clarksville or the Old Vic, so out to the family farm we went.
My favorite pic:
Flying low (came down to grab the camera). We kept side extension to a minimum today as even though the outriggers were on hard-packed gravel, it’s been REALLY wet. All “way out” extension was done in line with the truck today.
About 80% up…went up 100% but I had the camera by that time so no pic from the ground…
The wife and my nephew looking pretty small:
Decent side view:
Well, ready to work. Just have to get started.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
Author. Adventurer. Electrician.
You gonna put the cats, one at a time in the bucket and take them up?
Then hold on and hang them over the side one at a time?
Then the cats will never climb trees, we hope.
So does this boom truck get red and lime green zebra stripes?
Just so we see you coming, or going?
Maybe you going to have more fun than you deserve?
You know you could lose that truck, in a snowstorm.
Ah but then you’d rise above the snow and be seen again, right?
Happy New year especially now that all things
boom are on the up and up!
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