Hi y’all, I’m doing some industry research on cranes. Think of me as the 5 year old who was outcasted in 2nd grade for my essentric passion for the craft of cranes. Looking for an intrinsic truth on the stand on the best cranes in the world.

Love you truely.

Sincerely, Crane lover Edit: to hide the truth.

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Anyone got the questions for the NCCO tests? Lol

I just found this community. This was me probably 7-8 years ago. Pulling chains off an injector head for a coil tubing unit. I had 120 foot of boom out on a 45 ton crane to do this pick.

Not my crane. Got assigned to it for the day to do a job. This is why it’s important to do a THOROUGH pre-op inspection. Lesson learned

I am a 24 year old man who is thinking of getting into a trade and/or construction and through my research, I think that crane operating would be something I’m interested in. My question is do I have to become a rigger first and then work my way to becoming a crane operator? Or can I go to crane school and become certified and jump straight into operating a machine?

Im 21 years old and was caught parked, smoking a cigarette in my truck while drunk by the police and i have been charged with an OUI instead of a full DUI.

I will have my licence suspended for a month and i am concerned if this will affect my schooling or if ill be kicked out.

Any info is appreciated.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a aviation warning light? The one on the crane I’m running now is garbage. Constant issues with the flash sequence switching, shutting off for seemingly no reason and on top of that it’s 120v so we’ve got 250’ of extension cord running down the boom. Has to be plugged in every night and the damn carpenters are always stealing my extension cord or shutting off the breaker unknowingly at the end of the day.

Looking for a quality solar/battery powered one I can send to my boss to order then swap it out the next time the cranes boomed down. If I ask without giving them specifics they’ll probably buy some cheapo $20 off Amazon.

i hear guys referring to them by these names but don’t know exactly what it means and how to tell which is which?

https://reddit.com/link/1glax0q/video/es1cakllwczd1/player

Anyone know of a crawler-specific textbook or something similar? Can't seem to find anything; spent quite a few hours looking. Would like to have one on hand for reference.

Krupp KL40/36 Crane on board that is controlled by an Eberle PLS514 We are a FPSO in the middle of the ocean and this PLC is running our main deck crane. Shutting it down for long periods of time is not really an option.

The PLC runs our Crane’s ( Boom up and down/Main and Auxiliary hook up and down/Slewing left and right) . There is one output that drives hydraulic solenoids via PWM (Hook Up and speed / Hook Down and speed), When we use the joystick, both main and auxiliary hook ( work and operate 100% correct).

When we Boom up (The PLC should control the Auxiliary and main hook winch up and down rotation as well as speed to keep the hook level and at the same vertical plane)

The PLC controls the main hook perfectly, but when you select auxiliary hook the speed control of that hook is erratic, On boom up, the auxiliary winch spools out ( Lowers the hook to fast ) When you boom down it hoists the hook up fine.

The issue is, There is only one set of outputs and one set of Hydraulic valves that drives the main hook and the Auxiliary hook, the changeover between main and auxiliary is made hydraulic with a changeover valve to that rules out any hydraulic failure.

If you go through them you will see that there is only one control output from the PLC for Hoisting and lowering ( Ther is a Selector switch on the crane controls that they can select auxiliary or main hook) This is also not in the drawings, but it send a signal to the crane which then operates a changeover hydraulic solenoid to den the fluid to the Auxiliary which or the Main winch

My rt230 seems to just not have any torque in 3rd both in hi and low rearend. Anyone ever had a problem like this? Just fine in 1 and 2

l've come across an opportunity to join an organization as their primary outside sales rep. They offer mobile crane services of all sizes and they have a great fab shop. I'm no stranger to the industry or company but they haven't had an actual sales guy in a really long time so l'd basically be starting from scratch. Anyone in this type of business that can offer advice or insight? I don't want to get into too many geographical specifics but the territory would be in a rapidly expanding southeastern city.

Anyome tell me what these are Will check book but have load on

While studying for the Core Test and the LAT Test i been getting multiple answers from different study programs. 1. says 110% and 2. Says 100%

A nice Sunday morning shift a little while back.

https://reddit.com/link/1ghv90g/video/j20rjpqfehyd1/player

I took my TLL practical exam today and the report said I failed. I didn’t hit a single pole, didn’t knock the barrels over, and did everything in a timely manner. Will they tell you what part you failed on?