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That's a truss boom. Built it myself. 31 feet of vertical lift. Will lift over 600lbs when straight out horizontally. Maybe more but the back of my bobcat comes of the ground. I've used it for lots of things besides trusses. It 20 feet long and about 250 lbs so you can scoot it around by hand if you have to. Thought of building a shorter one for smaller or tighter places. The this one gets a little hairy with large trusses on taller buildings. Fun stuff for me though.
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Ya, carpenter, builder, Mason, I'm a contractor.I do very nice work no matter what it takes so sometimes I don't make much, But it's more important to do good work for people. Used to do alot of brick restoration in the twin cities. Now I live out in the country work has been really slow lately. Barely paying the bills.I have to advertise more and being able to post pictures on the internet should help me make a web page or something I hope. Thanks for the help with this.
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Ya It's the cats meow. Thought about building them to sell but I need to advertise better. I looked at some that extend hydraulically but it ads weight to the boom so that's less you can lift and more expense my opinion is you rarely need it to extend anyway.
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Ya we have a homemade truss boom something like that we use too. Now we have the forklift it doesn't get used as much but we did set up to 50' rafters with it before on a little LS140 New holland skidloader. I'm pretty happy with business around here, its been steady, winter a little slow but that's normal. I've got more lined up for this year than I usually do by this time so hopefully it keeps up. The thing with the small town is everybody knows you and the kind of work you do so if you're good things go ok, don't get rich for sure, but if not, well you're out of business like a couple have had to do.
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IAN, That was awesome! You shouldn't be giving me these ideas. I just might try them. Reminds me of the time I tired to pack down a dumpster full loose scrap. So I drove off the loading dock into the dumpster that was full (and sideways) to the dock. Unfortunately it didn't pack evenly so i ended up tipped sideways in there not to mention turned the wrong way to even get back onto the dock. Anyways I got it out and the boss never found out about my stupidity. Didn't have a billion people with video cameras back then or I would have been a poster child of stupidity.LOL,LOL,LOL.......tears in my eyes!
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saw that 1 awhile back. purty cool. i love the boom idea. i may build a smaller 1 to load and unload my dumptruck. would be handy. got my avitar up as well. so how do you post pics on reply? ive tried all i know..which aint much. oh and as ya can see i went ahead and spent the $20. lol what the hell.