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   gdavis62 | Oct 06, 2004 03:13am | #1

   I'm looking for the curves, but am only seeing straight lines.  Is the good part coming in a later post?

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 06, 2004 03:34am | #2

   the "curves " are what the future clients are going to build

   here's the Lull they rented..

   and the 2d floor frame..  long and a view of the ends.. a dropped truss top support

    the trusses came thru with clips attached so the 2x4 cross bracing could be attached...Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 06, 2004 03:57am | #3

   2d floor ... the main gable dormer is supported by  lvl's with an lvl beam...

   and  a view of the 24" lvl.. supporting the 2d floor deck

   and a long view of the roof frame looking down the floorMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 06, 2004 04:01am | #4

   bob is afraid he'll wind up on the post office wall..

    and scott is shy..

    but hey... they sure do move some woodMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   Timuhler | Oct 06, 2004 07:26am | #7

   Mike,

   Nice work as always.  Very nice, I'm saving those pics :-)

   How do you like working with the Lull?  We are in the process of getting a platform built for our Ingersol Rand that should make life even better.  It'll basically be a work platform, cutting station that will be elevated.  Here's a link to a pic http://forums.jlconline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=149

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 06, 2004 01:14pm | #8

   no Tim... this ain't my job..... i'm just visiting.. these two guys are the framing sub for another contractor in town..  Scott used to wrok for me 18 years ago

    if i were framing... i'd definitely have a Lull/ IR/ Skytrack    thoughMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 06, 2004 01:16pm | #9

   tim .. why did you get an I-R instead of a Skytrack... or  a Lull ?Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   dIrishInMe | Oct 06, 2004 02:05pm | #10

   Those were some pretty serious floor trusses.  What was the approximate span - do you know? Matt

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   Timuhler | Oct 06, 2004 04:14pm | #11

   Mike,

   We were turned onto (pardon the expression :-)) the IR when we were researching a newer forklift.  We had bought a really old one and it was starting to crap out, but it had saved us so much time and energy that we started looking for a newer one.  I researched Gradalls and Lulls, but the salesman we worked through for the first lift recommended the VR-90B.  He said that a lot of road crews used them and they were bulletproof.  Since then, I have noticed a lot of them being used by roadcrews.  It's a '98 and has a Perkins turbodiesel.  It has been great.  It had a small turn radius, can handle a lot of weight and has been very reliable for the last year.  We bought it last October. 

   One guy at a rental shop told me that Lull's can have front end problems which are expensive to fix and that is why they only rented out Gradalls.  I don't know if that's true, but that's what he said.

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   JonBlakemore | Oct 07, 2004 01:31am | #12

   Tim, what are the dimensions on the platform?

   How much? 

   Jon Blakemore

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   Timuhler | Oct 07, 2004 02:04am | #13

   John,

   I think the pic is of a platform that is about 24' long by 5 or 6' deep.  Ours will be about 16 or 17' long and about 5'6" deep.  I haven't gotten it priced yet.  I hope to in the next few days.  I'll let you know what the price is when we find out.

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   gdavis62 | Oct 06, 2004 04:02am | #5

   Curves.  Now I get it. 

   I had a couple houses framed when I was living out in NE Indiana, where all the framers are Amish.

   They all used Lulls.  Said they couldn't compete without them. 

   Hand up the trusses?  No problem.  Window installation?  Use the man platform and send him up with everything for that elevation there.  Lumber is here with the yard's boom truck?  Wait a second, we'll save time with the Lull. 

   Those guys with the straw hats and beards were poetry in motion, and came with every power tool known to man, plus a Lull.  Wouldn't plug into the grid, though.  All the juice came from a generator.

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   JeffBuck | Oct 06, 2004 07:10am | #6

   ohhh .. that kinda "curves" ....

   or as I've started to call them ...

   the Starbucks of the '00's ....

   never saw a freestanding one though ... around here it must be law to stick them into any and every little nook and/or cranny of unoccupied existing space.

   Jeff