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Save your back, mine is wrecked for various reasons, but let the haters hate, protect your back at all costs.

I use my crane for everything too. No need to be out of work or in pain for something simple.

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.

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!

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.

Millwright here. I’m totally a fan of rigging things you could otherwise pick up your self

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

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!!!

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!

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.

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

Old mechanics are the best

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!

“squirty boy” piss tank made me fall off my bed 💀😭😭😭

Crane works great for the 4D batteries!

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.

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

Floor jack works good for pushing tracks up in the sprocket when bolting them back together also

Swing press 🤣🤣 love it. Us carpenters call them sluggos

always thot a mechanics truck without a crane was worthless. even a small one is awsome to have

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.

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 😁

That swing press is im"press"iv

That’s wicked with craning everything over 50lbs the thing to do everywhere I worked was make the new guy do it

Some days i wish i would have a crane

Thanks for sharing!👍

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

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

Good job my man.💪

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

Where I come from we call hammers, lump hammers and sledges "persuaders" . Lol.

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.

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

Any dude slinging 8D batteries by hand & not by crane isn’t strong they are just dumb.

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

Are you guys hiring right now?

Where did you get that bleader tank from

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. 🤠

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

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 🙏🙏

Batteries 🔋 🔋 😂 I do the same shit 8D batteries heavy asf