Transcript
Use with ChatGPT / Claude Auto-scroll A
The speaker introduces the crane setup and explains the upcoming job of installing docks in the Missouri River. He describes why the work is done seasonally and how the crane must be configured with counterweights for the task.
hey what's going on YouTube just get me to the top crane we're back in the crane today we haven't haven't been in this old girl for a few days actually it's been more than a week maybe a weekand a half or so haven't got any green footage that it out of it but today we're just set up in our yard we got to get everything configured for a job we got to do tomorrow a bigkind of an interesting job we do it twice a year where we're located in Missouri we were right on the bank of the Missouri River Northwest Missouri or north of Kansas City and the job that we are goingto do we have to put a set of docks in the river there's a big boat ramp up in the vicinity of where the docks go in the local parks department supplies a dock for boaters that are using
that boat ramp to tie their boats up - and whatnot when they put their boats in the water we'll have to figure that every fall because the ice flow down the river would destroy the dock and then weput it back in every spring see how this we're gonna go do that tomorrow and get a little bit of crank footage out of that deal but in order to do those docks I'm going to have three counterweightsand we've only got one trunk available so the way I can figure the crane to drive up there say but one leaf want counterweight on the deck and then I put a counterweight on the dolly and I don'thave a counterweight on the truck I would never do that going down the road because it makes the crane pretty heavy it probably would what thank you very much
but for just in town so a girl doesn't seem to mind it too much so we're going to run a little boom out I'm gonna grab this piece of counterweight off of the ground that's over here and I'mgonna swing it over next as close as I can to my dolly and then I will move the crane over there get dolly and I should build with snapchat counterweight on and put it on the
I've never bill to reach that counterweight sitting over by where my dolly is it could be too far away unless I actually I would need that piece of counterweight to grab it from that
so he doesn't have anything overly exciting today but nevertheless to just crane footage and that's what my channel is about is brains so we're gonna record it
The crane is repositioned and the speaker shifts into a quick lesson on standard crane hand signals. He demonstrates common signals, explains why clear communication matters, and discusses family-friendly content and why kids enjoy watching crane work.
hey we got boomer attractive we're gonna play it back to the rack I'll get back down on the rubber which is what we call it it's uh just get back on the tires alright YouTube I'm back moved overto Holly
then will retract boom leave the block on the rack on the back of the firm dolly and then lay the room down so if they had a dollar for every time I've sent dolly so far this morning IPro it had to be at work today
so a few weeks ago almost two weeks ago had a person mention about learning train and signals and stuff many years ago do a video on prank hand signals I guess I can throw it in here while I'mextending takes a second to get the crane extended out I think about that beer I'll I'll go over a couple the hand signals real quick it's the standardized trained hand signals that everybody should be using when there aretrains we don't always get those hand signals sometimes I get stuff looks like gang signs so it something if you believe leave things up to interpretation which I don't necessarily like and it shouldn't be that way typically wewe discuss it beforehand one thing I've learned doing crane work is you never assume anything
so our first signal I'm checking my hand in front of the camera here was a this is boomer versus boom down monkey fighter keeps shutting off so keep drinking but this is boom down this is cable up cabledown boom up and Campbell down boom down and cable up stop stop
do one-handed swing left I'm get dirt on my hand I don't have an extra wrist so it's hard to turn my head that way swinging right
I can't show you telescope because it requires two hands
there's about 24 different signals we don't use all of them look to this train some of them are geared towards crawler cranes literally cranes with tracks on them
since this doesn't have tracks we don't use those signals
well I guess it little ways it's pretty close steel outrigger cylinderwe are going to err on the side of Lenin sling away from us
serve to get my fat head in front of the camera can't see it down there can't see that counter way down thereyeah somewhere on that
okay so a little trick when you're picking stuff up like this do you mean I've got four straps going to it you can watch your straps and see if your over the center of whatever you're trying to pickit doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be over the center of gravity on this counter weights on these counter weights it does but some stuff may not be if all four your straps become tight at the exact sametime are over the center of whatever you're picking up
yeah I picked that up generally I would boot them up a little bit to compensate for the deflection the crane had the bowing down a little bit because of the weight since I was close to my cylinder Iwanted to let it kind of move away from me so I didn't have to compensate or anything I justlet it do its thing see it's long a few inches and that's just the amount of deflection I had in the train room the flex and the frame of the Train
but trash that counterweight into one of those outrigger cylinders that would be
but that Outlander cylinder costs but I don't want to be the cause for finding out either
also I've had a few comments from some people that they were they were glad that so far everything's family friendly they can they can sit down watch these videos with their kids and we don't have to worry aboutlanguage crazy antics and whatnot and I mean uh I don't mind watching stuff by myself it's that language in it but I I agree with them as far as making it family-friendly this kind of stuff kids are veryinterested in and I know everybody raises their kids differently but this channel will always remain family-friendly
sorry I'll get inquire them concentrate
say only fits in here with an inch to spare
but there may be there may be a time that I slipped with a word or something with something that would get freaked out about something or someone's really having a stupid attack and if I ever do end upwith something like that in my video I will edit it out
I guess I wanna move it over a little bit they aren't happy with where I put it which is okay
but back to the family-friendly thing I won't know what my channel to be one of those that people can turn their kids loose on my channel and not have to worry about what I'm going to say next whatthey're gonna see kids are very interested in this kind of stuff life that job next to a road I've had cars sent along the side of the highway first sit in parking lots and it just about every timeyou look over in those pitar there's a little kid space in the window deluxe and everything you're doing and to me that's that's really neat because that that's the future of my trade that is sitting there watching medo that work now I know probably less than 1% of those kids we're ever gonna jump in the seat of a train but for those few minutes and they're sitting there watching me they're in the seat of this
crane they're sitting there imagining what they're gonna you know what they're doing or practicing what I'm doing but they're imagining themselves doing it maybe when they go home at night they get a bunch of toys out and they'replaying cranes you know itthat's why my channels family-friendly I love kids I've been to in my own my daughter's almost 17 my son's 15
I think I think they are proud of what I do but they're not really engaged in what I do if this thing had an Xbox controller I told my son it'd be all about it
so basically what I found over the years is the kids that enjoy watching this kind of stuff they're either under ten or over about 35that's the age group of kids in a toy lost missing
The crew locks down the boom and carefully prepares the crane for travel, with emphasis on safety around the boom and hook. The speaker explains retracting the boom, keeping cable tension, and how the boom is supported on the dolly for road movement.
and now we're gonna set the lock down that little stand down there actually made that stand last winter or that was maybe last February or March that's all he didn't have one on it it works out pretty wellother than you got to kind of manhandle that hook when you're set set in the block down
this is where you really gotta pay attention what you're doing to I've got two guys standing around underneath the boom and there there were they but if I do something radically stupid and I could hurt either one ofthe
so this is a case where slow and steady wins the race
I like YouTube I suppose
so this is part of the leaving the boom retracted when we're in the Dolly it adds a few minutes to our setup and teardown but it's so much better than the alternative having that into that boom swinging aroundall over the place passing into the
so you're getting ready to see the signal for retract I'm a hot game right now I'm gonna retract the boom
so this is the signal for a retract you hold your thumbs up playing together
want him to be standing in there well retract that thing another three feet or so
so I wanted to get it retracted because down here on my screen my clarion screen over here I want to switch this to my camera mode by the way I can watch the cable as we're winding it upbecause it's not gonna have much weight on it they're just gonna be holding it by hand
so he's got to keep some tension on that cable as I wind it up for it'll get a little spot on the drumreally this high in the drama wouldn't be that much of an issue because next time we're eve that block which will be tomorrow I'll be way past that spot on the drum
that block but you need any time we were messing with winches you want to try to keep your cable tight so it plays a certain way on the drum otherwise you can end up light and the cable youcan get a knot in it you can destroy your winch cable that's even winches on the front of the truck or on a backhoe factor or whatever
it doesn't have to be a crane winch that's anywhere
so he hasn't been around the admin around as much setting out and just took my anti to block weight off so now we get to listen to that meat but also in order for me to boom down Ihave to hold her and over I key I
typically prefer that that doesn't get taken off until I'm certain that we go down but it sorry to work around
keeping off there
so he's got to put a pin in the bottom of the boom now walks into a socket on the bridge on the dolly and so it actually supports the way to the boom once we once we lay itdown on this deli I'll throw some valves one of them is for free swing we talked about that when I in that hydraulic refer video I replaced that said electric swing valve there's a swing break valve the otherlever that I will throw is on a valve for telescope which that was in another video because I replaced that big valve it was leaking when it was cold and then there's a third valve on here that Iwill throw it puts the boom and float so it allows the boom to plow soil to go in out of the boom cylinder so it'll actually float going down the road
that transfers all the way to the bone on to Valley swinging right is the photos
okay now I'm gonna lay out lay the way to the boom on the belly right now and then I'll go throw that velvet
okay now I gotta go
okay we are back in the Dalai matter counterweights configure the way we need it for tomorrow
let the same come back in the shop for today
The crane is fully configured for the next day’s job and the speaker closes by thanking viewers for their support. He also gives a shout-out to another channel and mentions a few other tasks before signing off.
just wanna give everybody a quick thank you for to my channel staying involved see their health
and that's people around here they're kind of naysayers ago we can't believe you're doing that
little bit 50,000 people watching my stuff
I can do without you guys we appreciate all the supportwatch my foot it's
SteeleI've already done
subscribe to my channel
not quite 5000 years I think
three couples a guy
really or for an ENT for outdoors recommend everybody go check his channel out Randy's been a longtime friend of mine he's one that talked me into doing this you gotta get some hammers to take it to work withyou you've got to get some footage your channel would be amazingthe affidavit would if the water raining before outdoors
and someday forever started making any money with this low and a pretty generous person I'm sure he'll be taking some back to followers
and something back Randy McGehee for I would have for you guys well something big
well now we got the crane ready for tomorrow I gotta need to put batteries in one of our trucks it's not one of the start couple issues with it here and there was a metro system
that truck it's gonna sound funny but we call it blue bunny because it's had a blue cap but it also has stacks that stick way up on what kind of like money gear so we call it blue bunnyyou know I probably record some of that overthrowing some batteries and at least give me some footage for a rainy day or you know we got a we got a break in the action for a week or somethingso anyway I'm gonna sign off on this for now and maybe we'll record some more stuff