# Tadano ATF 180g-5 racking counter weight for the mobile crane

**Channel:** To The Top Crane
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4D-ILgQj8
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/uH4D-ILgQj8

## Chapters

- 0:14 — Preparing the Crane for Dock Work
- 4:59 — Crane Setup and Hand Signals
- 17:34 — Securing the Boom for Transport
- 25:23 — Wrapping Up and Thanking Viewers

## Transcript

**[0:14]:** 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 week and 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 big kind 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 going to 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

**[1:16]:** 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 we put 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 counterweights and 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't have 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

**[2:12]:** 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'm gonna 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

**[2:46]:** 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

**[3:20]:** 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

**[4:59]:** 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 over to Holly

**[5:30]:** 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 I Pro it had to be at work today

**[5:53]:** 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'm extending 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 are trains 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 we we discuss it beforehand one thing I've learned doing crane work is you never assume anything

**[7:04]:** 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 cable down boom up and Campbell down boom down and cable up stop stop

**[7:42]:** 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

**[7:58]:** I can't show you telescope because it requires two hands

**[8:07]:** 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

**[8:28]:** since this doesn't have tracks we don't use those signals

**[8:45]:** well I guess it little ways it's pretty close steel outrigger cylinder we are going to err on the side of Lenin sling away from us

**[9:08]:** serve to get my fat head in front of the camera can't see it down there can't see that counter way down there yeah somewhere on that

**[9:35]:** 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 pick it 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 same time are over the center of whatever you're picking up

**[10:14]:** 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 I wanted to let it kind of move away from me so I didn't have to compensate or anything I just let 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

**[11:02]:** but trash that counterweight into one of those outrigger cylinders that would be

**[11:15]:** but that Outlander cylinder costs but I don't want to be the cause for finding out either

**[11:29]:** 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 about language 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 very interested in and I know everybody raises their kids differently but this channel will always remain family-friendly

**[12:19]:** sorry I'll get inquire them concentrate

**[12:26]:** say only fits in here with an inch to spare

**[12:52]:** 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 up with something like that in my video I will edit it out

**[13:22]:** I guess I wanna move it over a little bit they aren't happy with where I put it which is okay

**[14:02]:** 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 what they'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 time you 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 me do 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

**[14:58]:** 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're playing cranes you know it that'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

**[15:30]:** 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

**[15:53]:** 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 35 that's the age group of kids in a toy lost missing

**[17:34]:** 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 well other than you got to kind of manhandle that hook when you're set set in the block down

**[18:14]:** 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 of the

**[18:36]:** so this is a case where slow and steady wins the race

**[18:45]:** I like YouTube I suppose

**[19:29]:** 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 around all over the place passing into the

**[20:15]:** so you're getting ready to see the signal for retract I'm a hot game right now I'm gonna retract the boom

**[20:23]:** so this is the signal for a retract you hold your thumbs up playing together

**[20:33]:** want him to be standing in there well retract that thing another three feet or so

**[20:46]:** 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 up because it's not gonna have much weight on it they're just gonna be holding it by hand

**[21:28]:** 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 drum really 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

**[21:52]:** 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 you can 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

**[22:21]:** it doesn't have to be a crane winch that's anywhere

**[22:39]:** 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 I have to hold her and over I key I

**[23:00]:** typically prefer that that doesn't get taken off until I'm certain that we go down but it sorry to work around

**[23:17]:** keeping off there

**[23:26]:** 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 it down 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 other lever 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 I will 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

**[24:21]:** that transfers all the way to the bone on to Valley swinging right is the photos

**[24:39]:** 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

**[24:51]:** okay now I gotta go

**[24:57]:** okay we are back in the Dalai matter counterweights configure the way we need it for tomorrow

**[25:06]:** let the same come back in the shop for today

**[25:23]:** just wanna give everybody a quick thank you for to my channel staying involved see their health

**[25:40]:** and that's people around here they're kind of naysayers ago we can't believe you're doing that

**[25:56]:** little bit 50,000 people watching my stuff

**[26:04]:** I can do without you guys we appreciate all the support watch my foot it's

**[26:21]:** Steele I've already done

**[26:30]:** subscribe to my channel

**[26:35]:** not quite 5000 years I think

**[26:42]:** three couples a guy

**[26:58]:** 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 with you you've got to get some footage your channel would be amazing the affidavit would if the water raining before outdoors

**[27:40]:** 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

**[27:54]:** and something back Randy McGehee for I would have for you guys well something big

**[28:29]:** 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

**[28:49]:** 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 bunny you 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 something so anyway I'm gonna sign off on this for now and maybe we'll record some more stuff