one of those days where I really appreciated having X-style outriggers! PS. the boom is not over top of the low voltage lines despite how it looks in the first photo

Tight set-up. Did you have a trusted person operate the outrigger so you could back it in there? What a pain - move, PTO in, adjust outrigger, PTO out, move, repeat.

just me, myself, and I... and yes, it sucked.. think I was in and out of PTO four times by the time I got her in there.... one of those times when I had telescoping rear outriggers

Nice 16cell,and good pics of some really professional donnage out rigger set ups.

Wow... You use a lot of wood under your outriggers!! Is that concrete their standing on? I use that much on a 52m schwing when I stand in wet sand!!!

I like the 52 moost on crane mats

And i never trust concrete

I am right with you on that one Superdoffer, concrete pads and city sidewalks especially can be deadly... no rebar in them, and often there is a void underneath where the ground has settled... If you read up on what the manufacturers recommend for dunnage (especially on big booms)... it can be a real eye opener.

Yepp. Thats the 52 I'm talking about :-) Do they let you drive that thing now?? Even those crane pads can break I hearded. A 52m In holland working for vloertechniek used those on verry loose ground and it snapped. But A 42m doesn't need so much on a concrete floor I think. What will you do when you stand on sand than? Turn around and go home? But ofcourse everybody should do it his way. I wasn't there so I actually can't tell or know anything about the situation.. And maybe they didn't want the pavement to be dammaged.  Maybe I am just lazy.. But I never had a pump collapse (YET ;-))  Here in norway the ground is so hard that I have forgotten how much trouble it was to set up a pump in Holland. Most of the time I only use the plastick plates for the look of it. Could actually just not use anything. Only rock :-) Greetz MR.B

O yes... That looks like a stelcon plate. Those can never be trusted. They are indeed rubbish!! Some of them are made of rest concrete.

Hey Dipstick that pic was taken in a little place called Ransdorp. I think you understand.

B.T.W gretings from Bako

It rings a bell yes. Is that one of those places where the ground is made of water with some sand in it? Looks like a job with BVV or De Jong? A strontkelder???

Werkvloer voor strontkelder om precies te zijn... Ik zet mn geld op BVV. Of die andere boer... Hoe heet die gozer ook al weer??? Bert??? Die ene die niet tegen een volle slang wil duwen...