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  1. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    Yeah, the picture was taken by BFR in his Cul De Sac (sp). the morning after you (Robert) and Ron's visit. I passed one of the SS tanks plus stirrer on to Sharon Wetzel for use in her biodiesel project. She wrote the insert for my MVM article on biodiesel and lives only a few miles from us, so...
  2. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    Here is a picture to go with the scale receipt:
  3. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    HRD, the receipt you see in the post is with a cargo of about 2,500-3,000 lb, which in itself doesn't add much to the front axle, so it's not empty. Since putting the pipeline truck bed on, I haven't weighed the deuce empty, but it should be about 17,500 just by itself. The HIAB crane weighs...
  4. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    Ha, and you thought I told you everything about the cranetruck, wait until Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) gets wind of it....
  5. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    This is what you get at a typical truck stop.
  6. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    Let the deuce be all it can be, I say. Now take it to some scale and check the weight distribution on the axles. When folded, my HIAB adds 750 lb to the load on the front axle and I can feel it in the steering effort. I like the winch on the boom! It should come in real handy. Now for a good...
  7. cranetruck

    IT WORKS!!! M977 Crane with PICTURES!!!

    Happy for you Tom, looking foward to seeing another cranetruck. You will never know how you got along without it.
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