My shop teacher back in highschool always said, "If your going to be stupid you better be tough." People that laugh at PPE and safety won't be laughing in a few years and thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Couldn't agree more excellent point. 👍We didn't have cranes on service trucks for the first half of my career. Now I'm paying for it my back is shot. Glad to be RETIRED after 40 years.
Normalize this. I’m so sick of the “I’m so fuckin macho” attitude on the job sites. Like dude. I’ve got nothing to prove to you about testosterone levels or ego.. I’ll take the extra 5min to rig something up to the machine SAFELY and save my back
I’m a field service heavy equipment mechanic also. The company spent money for the crane on my service truck and I’d hate to offend them by not using it haha. I Use it for batteries all the time 👍
Good tip! My pin driver is actually an old chunk of drill steel, I need to redo it with a chunk of cable or hydraulic hose to take up vibrations. I built it in the field in a pinch and haven't changed it since.
These videos are great! As an field mechanic myself I can totally relate to using the crane for batteries. Save your back. Otherwise we'll have to switch carriers in a few years.
Last time I didnt use my crane for batteries I blew my back out, its not the weight its the awkward motion required to get it into to the inconvenient spot. 3rd arm definitely worth using!
10-4 on the horizontal swing press. I have a shaft probably 1 & 1/2 times the size of yours, during the day of Budd wheels stud breakage was common. I built a fixture to set the wheel hub in and used the shaft to use as a vertical press to press out and in new studs. A whole lot easier than a BFH and punch. What it cost me in 1988 for not having a crane from back blow out I could of bought top of line crane. I am a truck road service hence my crane usage is more limited, but I really like it for fan hubs, nice control with out fear of something slipping putting hole in radiator. But look at it this way now at 75 the gym is going to be my best friend. Nice video!
Back in the day i worked for Detroit Diesel and a guy there had a sling made to pick up an ingersoll 261 to pull head bolts. He would crane it from bolt to bolt. I laughed. Now i think its genius. Awesome rig
Build an aluminum drain pan with a low level expanded metal screen for your filters to sit on and have a stand pipe with the same quick connect as your oil evac hose to be able to "drain" the pan.
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I’ve had people laugh at me for getting the crane out for a jack or something like that. I’ve had several trucks without cranes now I use it for everything.
I use my crane for anything that might be heavy. I tell all of the newer techs that I work with - "Don't be a hero." There is literally zero up side to trying to be a hero in this industry. Nobody is going to be impressed if you hurt yourself completing a job.
Always remember you have 1 body 1 life tools can be made and replaced not youre body thats how i see it so when i work i always use any tool on hand that can help out
Problem solve get you a 55gallon barrel cut the top of and get some steel net and three pieces of rebar drill some holes the side of the barrel and cut the steel net in a some what of a circle and lay the steel net inside of the barrel and put it in a corner of the dog house and rachet strap it in the corner
The kind of guys that are talking shit about you using your crain to change batteries are the kind of guys that don't realize heavy equipment batteries are much larger then their wife's group 65 battery in her Ford Explorer.
Had a co worker drive a track pin out with a sledge hammer got sent to the hospital from a chunk of the pin driver splintering off and going into his leg since then I won’t do tracks without a press
It’s fuckin awesome seeing a field mechanic preach safety, most of the time it’s the opposite. “I don’t need glasses” ect. Ect. I try to be as safety conscious as I can be too. I wanna go home with my two eyes an 10 fingers at the end of the day also 🤷🏻♂️
If i were you i would build a small trailer to carry new oil and your waste oil vac with a decent size waste oil resivoir. Just a thought. Then you dont have to carry it around all the time on your service truck.
yea man any way to save your body is a good thing us heavy equiment mechanics already tear our bodies up so why make it worse when you have the option like a crane
I don’t know why you would you talk s?!$ about a guy using a crane while he works no matter what he’s lifting40lbs in a weird spot can definitely throw your back out or you slip while carrying a load, why not have the crane hold the load for you makes sense to me
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I use my crane for everything too. No need to be out of work or in pain for something simple.
Save your back, mine is wrecked for various reasons, but let the haters hate, protect your back at all costs.
My shop teacher back in highschool always said, "If your going to be stupid you better be tough." People that laugh at PPE and safety won't be laughing in a few years and thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Couldn't agree more excellent point. 👍We didn't have cranes on service trucks for the first half of my career. Now I'm paying for it my back is shot. Glad to be RETIRED after 40 years.
Normalize this. I’m so sick of the “I’m so fuckin macho” attitude on the job sites. Like dude. I’ve got nothing to prove to you about testosterone levels or ego.. I’ll take the extra 5min to rig something up to the machine SAFELY and save my back
I’m a field service heavy equipment mechanic also.
The company spent money for the crane on my service truck and I’d hate to offend them by not using it haha. I Use it for batteries all the time 👍
On the "swing press" a section of drillpipe is awesome to drive bucket pins on larger wheel loaders.
Good tip! My pin driver is actually an old chunk of drill steel, I need to redo it with a chunk of cable or hydraulic hose to take up vibrations. I built it in the field in a pinch and haven't changed it since.
These videos are great! As an field mechanic myself I can totally relate to using the crane for batteries. Save your back. Otherwise we'll have to switch carriers in a few years.
Last time I didnt use my crane for batteries I blew my back out, its not the weight its the awkward motion required to get it into to the inconvenient spot. 3rd arm definitely worth using!
Millwright here. I’m totally a fan of rigging things you could otherwise pick up your self
10-4 on the horizontal swing press. I have a shaft probably 1 & 1/2 times the size of yours, during the day of Budd wheels stud breakage was common. I built a fixture to set the wheel hub in and used the shaft to use as a vertical press to press out and in new studs. A whole lot easier than a BFH and punch.
What it cost me in 1988 for not having a crane from back blow out I could of bought top of line crane. I am a truck road service hence my crane usage is more limited, but I really like it for fan hubs, nice control with out fear of something slipping putting hole in radiator. But look at it this way now at 75 the gym is going to be my best friend.
Nice video!
worked in a machine shop for a long time and fully support using the crane as much as possible.
💯💯💯
Old guys have been there and done that so listen to them
Back in the day i worked for Detroit Diesel and a guy there had a sling made to pick up an ingersoll 261 to pull head bolts. He would crane it from bolt to bolt. I laughed. Now i think its genius. Awesome rig
Build an aluminum drain pan with a low level expanded metal screen for your filters to sit on and have a stand pipe with the same quick connect as your oil evac hose to be able to "drain" the pan.
The troll impressions are the best!!!
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I’ve had people laugh at me for getting the crane out for a jack or something like that. I’ve had several trucks without cranes now I use it for everything.
Floor jack works good for pushing tracks up in the sprocket when bolting them back together also
Had to laugh at the "haters" part. You know what the keyboard warriors are going to say, and you are 1 step ahead, nice. Thanks for the video!
Crane works great for the 4D batteries!
Old mechanics are the best
I use my crane for anything that might be heavy. I tell all of the newer techs that I work with - "Don't be a hero." There is literally zero up side to trying to be a hero in this industry. Nobody is going to be impressed if you hurt yourself completing a job.
Thank you for this channel. I'm learning alot. It's getting me ready for my new job up north in the Alberta oil n gas industry 😁
I agree 100% with you on the crane. I do the exact same thing I know I can lift a lot of things that I use it for but I sure don’t want to.
Tool boxes and tools thank you!
always thot a mechanics truck without a crane was worthless. even a small one is awsome to have
“squirty boy” piss tank made me fall off my bed 💀😭😭😭
Swing press 🤣🤣 love it. Us carpenters call them sluggos
Always remember you have 1 body 1 life tools can be made and replaced not youre body thats how i see it so when i work i always use any tool on hand that can help out
Thanks for sharing!👍
You bet!
That’s wicked with craning everything over 50lbs the thing to do everywhere I worked was make the new guy do it
Good job my man.💪
Thank you! 😃
Where did you get that bleader tank from
can is 100% correct slow down protect your body, being laid up or having surgery because you land wrong or step wrong can be career ending
That swing press is im"press"iv
Problem solve get you a 55gallon barrel cut the top of and get some steel net and three pieces of rebar drill some holes the side of the barrel and cut the steel net in a some what of a circle and lay the steel net inside of the barrel and put it in a corner of the dog house and rachet strap it in the corner
Some days i wish i would have a crane
The kind of guys that are talking shit about you using your crain to change batteries are the kind of guys that don't realize heavy equipment batteries are much larger then their wife's group 65 battery in her Ford Explorer.
Had a co worker drive a track pin out with a sledge hammer got sent to the hospital from a chunk of the pin driver splintering off and going into his leg since then I won’t do tracks without a press
I do all the same shit In my service truck I drive a t370 KW and it's always packed to the brim with shit from all the cranes I work on
What kind of T370 and service body set up you got? Is it a day cab by chance and how do you find day cab for all day comfort.
It’s fuckin awesome seeing a field mechanic preach safety, most of the time it’s the opposite. “I don’t need glasses” ect. Ect. I try to be as safety conscious as I can be too. I wanna go home with my two eyes an 10 fingers at the end of the day also 🤷🏻♂️
you using a crane to save your back is the same reason why id rather load a trailer with a forklift and not a pallet jack lol
Are you guys hiring right now?
If i were you i would build a small trailer to carry new oil and your waste oil vac with a decent size waste oil resivoir. Just a thought. Then you dont have to carry it around all the time on your service truck.
Where I come from we call hammers, lump hammers and sledges "persuaders" . Lol.
Hahahaha persuaders. That's awesome.
yea man any way to save your body is a good thing us heavy equiment mechanics already tear our bodies up so why make it worse when you have the option like a crane
Any dude slinging 8D batteries by hand & not by crane isn’t strong they are just dumb.
they are built different and built stupid so it evens out
@@danielheady2786 Then their backs are blown by their retirement and on narcotic pain killers. How fun..
I used to laugh about using the crane for batteries until i started working on mining equipment tye crane gets uses for everything
used the service truck crane to lift the supervisor's truck to change a flat lol lifted it by the trailer hitch for fuck sakes
Owning the truck and all thats on it is good. Be able to walk the fck out of a crap-ass company. 🤠
Crane or press or anything can help with your work use it .. fuck them ... end of the day is you whos important not them !! Take care 🙏🙏
I don’t know why you would you talk s?!$ about a guy using a crane while he works no matter what he’s lifting40lbs in a weird spot can definitely throw your back out or you slip while carrying a load, why not have the crane hold the load for you makes sense to me
Batteries 🔋 🔋 😂 I do the same shit 8D batteries heavy asf