Indiana Jones couldn't find a Wheel Horse in this place

[Wild Bill in VA 1,453]

But I did!

I'm going to bring 7 Wheel Horses to the 25th Annual Wheel Horse Show along with some raffle prizes. Spent the good part of the day digging tractors out of the shed and garage.

Also posted in this thread of a major work project that has been taken a lot of my time up in the past year, it is a high energy electrical bucket truck that has a price tag when new years ago of 1.3 million and a replacement cost of over 2 million. It has Marmon Harrington drive axles and when it came to me with a blown second drive axle differential i told them the drive line angles were incorrect and began working with 4 different engineers who told me i was correct. I have had to remove the front 4 planetary drives and second differential to get looked over, resealed and reinstalled. I'm gonna take a long vacation when it's done.

Wild Bill in Richmond, VA.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,358]

@Wild Bill in VA Now I know who to call at VEPCO when the power is out.

[c-series don 9,008]

I’d like to see some more pictures of that truck. How high does it go? Looks huge! I’m guessing that’s for going off road and working on high tension lines? 

[Mickwhitt 4,779]

We got things like that over here, not for off road so much as it needs solid stable ground to stand on I guess. 

This one is 103 m platform height, which would be plenty enough for me! 

As an apprentice I had to test the big platform trucks our local authority used. Maybe only a third of that bad boy but it still made me giddy to go up and slew it through 360. 

 

 

[JoeM 7,874]

9 hours ago, Wild Bill in VA said:

second differential to get looked over

8 pinion I bet!

 

[Ed Kennell 39,036]

Whaatt, no white shirt and pants??

[wallfish 17,105]

Jones might not but I spy all kinds of goodies in there.

Let me know if you're willing to part with that RJ hood as I would love to have something of Wild Bill's in my collection. I can trade ya one of mine or buy ya a better one at the show or just pay ya for it. But I completely understand if ya just prefer to keep it too. It's a "can't win if you don't play" kind of request thing

[oliver2-44 9,907]

17 hours ago, Wild Bill in VA said:

I was thinking the same thing Wallfish. I'm not going to the show, but let me loose in that garage of ol Bill and I'd be a kid in a candy store!

5 hours ago, wallfish said:

Jones might not but I spy all kinds of goodies in there.

Let me know if you're willing to part with that RJ hood as I would love to have something of Wild Bill's in my collection. I can trade ya one of mine or buy ya a better one at the show or just pay ya for it. But I completely understand if ya just prefer to keep it too. It's a "can't win if you don't play" kind of request thing

 

At  the utility I retire from the Transmission guys had two of the special TALL bucket trucks.  While they might have been considered "Off road" They usually has a boom trucj following it with a load of large timbers to build a temporary pad for it.  Every few years we would get them to bring one to one of the dams to do some unusual job.  Once I had one reach 150 ft up and probably another 40 ft forward. They operated them for us as it took a light finesse on the controls way out there!  When they bought the second one, luckily the contract was "delivered" Somebody delivering it made a mistake and they hit the bottom of an highway bridge. Needless to say it went back to the factory.

17 hours ago, Wild Bill in VA said:

 

[squonk 41,604]

My last job we had a small bucket truck. It was handy for lifting compressors up to the roof. I only "flew " on it once. Had to get a 3HP motor up to an RTU.

 

[Lane Ranger 11,009]

 

We had a walnut tree that was on the property line between neighbors that was directly under a power line.  It took us a couple years to get Duke Energy to realize the danger.  No private tree trimmers could do this.   Duke in Indiana finally announced they were coming to remove the tree but they were waiting on a piece of equipment they bought in Europe for over $500,000.   When they showed up they had a tracked bucket and used pads across the front yard to move the machine in place. It was a sight to see when they were operating in that bucket!