Hi all,here's a late night( in Eire) report on my 18000,I'm shot to bits,my eyes are hanging out with the tiredness and i'm twitching with the stress and nerves,oh the fun of re-reeving your Manitowoc 18000

I bought this crane way way way back and it had one of those beloved twisted boom sections,I figured it was too late for TWH to do anything about it,as the time frame from buying it,and me joining th eforum and seeing you coudl email them and they's send you out a replacement was probably about 4 yrs,so as a shot in the dark i emailed them,got some feed back from them and a few weeks later a very light box arrived at my door,you just can't beat that kind of after sales service,really hats off to you guys at TWH,

that all happened about a year ago,and after seeing Brandons excellent video this got me in the mood to tackle the replacement boom foot section,also thanks Brandon for sending my anger/stress and nerve levels through the roof!!!! you shouldn't be allowed make it look so easy

enough waffle,here are some pics,actually the first real pics i took of her

little Terex man must have jumped the fence...












I like this one,shiney new boom foot section

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

hahaha,I know what you have ahead of you lol,its super fun! lol

good luck with it,get it over and done with

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

CC8800 is easy as pie man, that straight reeve takes no time.... 18000 i will never do more than i have to cause i hate all that cross reeving..... plus the pulleys on the hook block for the 8800 have like a barrier almost so that once the cable is in the pulley it cant jump out so you dont have to worry about any lines jumping

looks good though Graham, i would like the Aguado version.... i think thats a sexy livery!!!

Glad to see her back in action Graham, very nice pictures. TWH must have produced twice as many butt sections as actual models. I sent mine to a new home recently, was just laying around and I kept having trouble with the drums holding any tension. Love the 8800 in the back, my favorite of the current crawlers!

mark

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Mark L.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts

thanks guys,and here I was thinking I was gonna get slated for fitting the butt section a year after I recieved it,lol,

C'mon guys!! its the most fun you'll ever have!!

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

can't have an 18000 sitting idle,so I took out my sewing kit and made some more slings,beats cutting pieces out of the hook






can anyone lend me their power drill for a few hours

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

some balsa wood,wood glue, time and a blistering hot sunday and this is what I made,yep another load











and a nice Scania I snapped during the week while parts shopping for work

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

Nice work now whats inside it??

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Engineering; Its all STRESS and not just Force over Area!

a couple of more "pics from the trip home from work"

Crane Hire Ltd's what I think is their ac120



These are all I could get,things were getting a bit sketchy between taking snaps and keepin the ol' car shiney side up

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

:d/ :d/

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Dain

I'm a kid at heart, so I will play with any model construction vehicle from 1:87 scale to 1:1 scale!!!!

Age is a state of time NOT a state of mind!!