Tower repair...

[Daniel Meyer]

That's me, 35 feet up there...removing about 40 pounds of wood trim that was so rotten it was about to fall off (don't *really* want to kill anybody). I had to pull square nails to remove it.



I then added new trim to seal a gap between the roof and the wall of the tower.



We started on the siding underlay repair and siding replacement as well...

[R J]

Lookin good Bro.    That little truck is going to end up paying for itself on that building.......

Just be careful and stay out of power lines.....

[Ratdog]

Lookin' good there Dan'l !  Nuttin' purdier than good cedar for siding.

[Daniel Meyer]

Lookin good Bro.    That little truck is going to end up paying for itself on that building.......

Already has paid dividends much higher than what I paid for it...

Just be careful and stay out of power lines.....

I will for sure. Was an electrician for years.

It is a double insulated boom though (top boom is fiberglass, bottom boom has an insulated section break).

Entertainment wise...check out this pole across the street from where I was working...



I have a serious WTH? for Oncor on that one...

[alph]

believe it or not, i had a juntion box that looked just like that in a house my wife and i bought.  the scary thing was there were no wire nuts or tape, anything on the wires that were twisted together sticking out all over just like the ones on your pole!!

[R J]

You want something scary.

We decided to add on to our house and extend a bedroom. add a bath and extend the kitchen 14'.    Was taking down the outside wall after we had laid the foundation and more or less got the outside walls framed up, and the roof rafters on.  At least we could tarp it if it rained.

This was my youngest daughter bedroom before she went into the real world we were basically extending.

Took down the old outside wall and found a 220 wire stapled to the 2X4 in the wall.   NO openings anywhere close.  It was black taped to a pair of 12.2  romex wires that disappeared down the plate over the block basement wall...    I knew there was a patch in the wall down there, but never bothered to look into it.

There used to be an old shed out back that had juice in a fuse panel.   Couple of 110 circuits out of it.  1 was lights and 1 was plugins.  Looked good on the garage side.

When we built the new garage 12 years ago, we just used that pair of 110 circuits coming out of the ground.   Looked like they had been preserved pretty good on the shed end.   Had no idea where they were in the house, but they did go to the main breaker.   Found it one day when i plugged in a direct shorted motor,  Popped the breaker.

One of my neighbors came over and asked if I found that wire.  Told him I did.  It had been run by the previous owner for a 220 window A/C.   When he put in Central Air in the house, he had the guys dig him a trench to the shed for electric.   He pulled the plaster board, cut a hole to the bottom of the window well down to the floor header, plugin was under a window, took out the plugin box, tied these 2 12.2 romex and stuck it all in a tube filled with silicone, except from the old 3 wire 220 to the basement wall.  it is supposedly 39" below the ground, and now has a 6" chunk of driveway on top of it from the house to the garage.......   

As much jack assing around as he did to get electric out there he could of probably done it correctly and cheaper.

[ArmyValker]

I'll tell ya, that's what all the doggone poles in my town look like. From what I was told they have way more stuff hanging off the poles than they are rated for but they can't afford to buy new poles. The one next to my house is leaning out of the street at a pretty severe angle after the ice storm a few years back, but they won't do nothin about it. It's ok, my house ain't connected to it.
However, if them power lines fall on anything of mine, we will have a problem.

[Jabba]

I would NOT do well in the boom Dan.  I need to keep my fat ass on terra firma.  I have buddies that would go up for me though...

Have fun, be safe bro.

Jabba

How's the ductless splits working out for ya?

[Daniel Meyer]

How's the ductless splits working out for ya?

Not in service yet...sitting on the kitchen floor

I'm getting to it!

[Tx Bohemian]

Can't tell from the pictures but surely you have your second boom operator on the ground as OSHA states has to be there for safety, right?

Plus your saftey harness...

[Daniel Meyer]

Can't tell from the pictures but surely you have your second boom operator on the ground as OSHA states has to be there for safety, right?

Plus your saftey harness...

Well, my safety harness is in the right side toolbox cabinet on the truck, safely protected in its original plastic wrappings.

My second boom operator is the one taking the pics of me up in the bucket...tho he's really not there in response to an osha mandate. My bucket. My building. All covered by, "Hey y'all watch this!" instead of the Occupational safety guys.

[fudgie]

Did it take you a bit to get use to it up there? We, rather I, used one at work to put soffit on a house. It can get a little bouncy for my taste at extension. What realy sucked was that it had a self leveling bucket on it. I would lean out to work and the bucket would kick out level. Scared me quite a bit!

[Daniel Meyer]

Did it take you a bit to get use to it up there? We, rather I, used one at work to put soffit on a house. It can get a little bouncy for my taste at extension. What realy sucked was that it had a self leveling bucket on it. I would lean out to work and the bucket would kick out level. Scared me quite a bit!

Yes, it took a bit...I've used a bucket truck before but that was a long time ago. My bucket is cable-leveled but can be slipped a bit.

The thing that took the most getting used to was when I would push or pull on something...the boom would rotate a fraction since there is a little slack...so for instance, pushing a screw-gun against the screw, the bucket moves back a hair...if that was a ladder that is a very bad sign...s'okay on the bucket. Just took a few minutes to get used to it.