Great advice. I have never rented one but will keep those things in mind for future reference.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Start picking up some cut outs and you'll find yourself in need of one. :)

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

When Bruce's new queens take off next summer, he'll be renting one to add supers to his hives, lol Carter Hill won't have nothing on him, hope that made all ya'll laugh a little.

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster LOL, Randy if I was 35 years younger and had all your money and bee removal connections, I'd be done bought me one them used Isuzu bucket trucks with the 50' arm and the 50' crane extention option and equipped it with pto driven 10,000 watt generator 3 phase capable if needed and a pecan sprayer fan vac called tha Southern Mississippi Bee Vac, equipped with 300' flexible 6" vacuum hose and self adjusting waist gate so it doesn't harm the bees, all this empties the bees into a triple deep brood with drawn comb so no rescue is too big, it also has a slideout queen excluder and photo eye so you can always find and cage the queen, the unit has 8 Gopro portables cams so you record the extraction which only takes 5 minutes once you take a 6" hole saw a make the entrance big enough to attach the vac hose and go about the hive with you LoRob OAV with your blend of OA and Honeybee Gone, to chase the bees out and treat for varroa mites at the same time, it also has a heavy duty vacuum pump that socks all the comb, honey and wax out after removing the bees and puts it through wax separator and bottles honey mixed with pollen so can sell it for $95 a pound like Dr. Leo of Horizontalhives.com , anyway you've gotten José Rodriguez and his family, which are all former beekeepers from Guadalajara to drive the boom truck, while his wife and kids are tending the beeyards and grafting 150 new queens a week.

My favorite beekeeper and helper Pete. You guys keep me laughing 😃

Very good advise Getting the out the door price, Less sticker shock when you go the pay. If you paid 450.00 dollars for a lift use it on any thing and every thing you can to get the most with the money. Another great vid thanks.

Yep those things are handy use em hanging signs all the time!!! I also learned most of em have a switch that you can switch the controls off in the bucket and operate it from the ground if ya ever want to leave someone hanging just flip the switch or ya can shake em up like a bottle of chocolate milk!!!! I learned that from the bucket end!!! only took me once!!! Been running lifts and cranes for almost 30 yrs now!!! I've seen it all lol!!!!! Good video as usual !!!

Finally new content,thank you.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

More to come!

When I operated one of these where I worked, the maintenance guys would sneak over and turn my upper control off

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

You needed a paint ball gun.

Been a few years since I've rented one (Used to do Industrial work, retired now), those things have gotten a whole lot fancier and a whole lot more expensive. Another point to ponder, make sure the ground you are going to be on isn't soft, you can get the big 4wd ones, but they get stuck too.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

I sunk one of these one time.

@TechGorilla1987

Жыл бұрын

They now make man lifts with caterpillar-like tracks. Much lighter footprint.

My lift is a tractor and loader with a plywood and 2x4 rail on the bucket for a basket. Yea so much easier using any type of lift system for painting or working on a house. Ladders have their place. But standing on a ladder all day gets tiring very fast. A lift is also so much safer. Nice you can use it for some things around the house.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

You said it. Ladders give you the hook foot after a couple of hours.

Liz is a woman after my own heart! You go, girl!

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

She’s a go getter. I have to hide the ladder to keep her off the roof if we have overhanging limbs.

Good information, thanks Rooster!

I almost got my hand amputated with one of these. The one I was in had four wheels. We were running down the line in the mill putting in high bay lights. In one spot there was an obstruction on the floor so I had to move over a few feet. While I'm looking down my hand controlling the joystick got caught at the wrist right on the edge of a purlin c channel in the roof. I wasn't watching the slope of the roof coming down as I moved over. As it turned out, the boom was turned 180 backwards so the joystick was in a mode where the harder it pushed the farther it went in a sort of feed back loop. I had to drop my full body weight on my wrist to rip it out in the nick of time. A couple safety points we were disregarding. You're supposed to lower the boom down all the way before moving the base and the machine should have been turned around so that going in your intended direction of travel wasn't pulling back on the joystick. We were only creeping forward a few feet at a time putting in the lights and the battery bank was bad so if you raised and lowered the boom too many times we'd get stuck and the machine was to big to turn around wedged between the production line machines. The biggest culprit was that on this Mark lift there wasn't a tall enough safety cage around the joystick which would have prevented it getting jammed on the controls.

Awesome video

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'm getting ready to rent a bull dozer this weekend, any hints for that? God's peace brother.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I could write a book on that one. You taking bees out with it? 😉

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Jeff's gonna find the queen quickly and put her on dozer, then get the bees to push the house back to the Abby.

When I use those I always wear a harness. Safety first. Lol!! Great video as always sir.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

They usually give us a harness with the lift but it must be a small. Haha

@lindseyhomesteadfarm2653

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster we’ve had a few fellow electricians back in the day that a small harness did not fit either. So they became ground men!!! Lol!!!

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

LOL meaning it's for your wife to paint with, it'd take 3 smalls to fit you, D.R.

You right , why work harder when you got the lift, they make work a lot easier , I use to rent them to clean cooling towers during week and bring home to trim my trees for free on the week end lol.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Right on! That's how it's done.

Seeing Pete and Mrs Rooster up there I;m assuming you have different regs to us in the UK. Here you require a special card that says you have done a recent training course to operate the machinery. Without card you can't hire and only a card operator would be able to touch, operate, go onto the machinery.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Here in the states they will rent one of those to anyone. We like to let the stupid weed themselves out naturally. There is no training requirement generally. On large facilities there may be a card and there would definitely be training. Can't have people learning how to run a lift in a place where they could hurt people or damage a bunch of stuff.

@manicoptio9305

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster I see. Thanks for response. I edited my post to correct all the spelling mistakes. I should reply late at night less

I've got a lot of hours working in boom lifts. Been in a lot of scary situations also.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

They can give you rubber knees.

I was up in bucket truck once and dumped a swarm at my feet by accident. I'm like "Bring me down! Bring me down!" I forgot I had to bring myself down. 😆 Good times.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

🤣 🤣 Now that would have made a good video.

@Swarmstead

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster 😆 that was a couple years before I started making videos.

No way could I get my wife in that bucket. I've accomplished a lot of things before I never thought I could do but that will NEVER be one of them. Yours does seem to be at home up there though so I reckon you have her trained already. 🤣🤣Thanks Rooster 👍👍

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

LMAO, she knows he'll turn it over extended 50' and might break the house in, Rooster ain't a little biddy fellow. I'm pickin, but I've seen your wife beside you in videos before.

Another thing to keep in mind is lift won't boom if it isn't dead-ass level, so take that into account when you're sizing a job up.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Yep and when you have one set up and leave for a while and it suddenly won't work check the level. They leak down.

Randy, I read that you’re speaking at the Alabama Beekeepers conference at Clanton. Is that correct?

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

That's right Mr. Don. Got any special requests? :)

Hey @628DirtRooster Bees. Randy, I wanted to let you know I just dropped the hot honey package off at the post office today. Should be heading to your PO box listed in the description. Enjoy and have a great day.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much y'all.

I wish you had recorded the entire thing

Never heard of someone who got a weekend discount. Guess you have to know what to ask for and ask the right company.

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

Rooster, if it's heavy equipment and has an hour meter make sure you ask the hour rate as well as the day rate, because if you run the dozer or backhoe ect. over the allowed hours per day they'll hit you by hourly rate, I'm sure you know this by your write a book comment, I meant it those who might not know, always refuel it also, they'll add about $2 per gallon to their fuel cost.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

I though about it but since it was just advice on a man lift I figured I save some of those tips for the next time we rent an excavator or a skid steer. I thought about going really deep on the lift including setup, use and special precautions but even this video isn’t something my subscribers really want to see.

poor Pete wasn't even given a bucket of water...

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Ha! I got him one.

Hey Randy, I bought a Shirt from y'all, I know it's you but,when Folks ask what 628 DIRTROOSTER is honestly I don't know 😱. Could you please let me know so I can tell them? JO JO IN VT 😆💕

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Rooster was my dirt bike. 628cc was the engine size. I was originally going to do dirt bike videos. Because of the channel name I got stuck with Rooster or Dirt Rooster as my nick name.

@joanneganon7157

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster Thanks Randy 👊. Do you still Ride? JO JO

This is why you rent from rental stores and not bigbox stores

We call that a "spider lift" in my construction field.

@downunderfulla6001

Жыл бұрын

Here they’re called a hi-ab or cherry picker

@kevind7617

Жыл бұрын

Where I'm from a spider lift is a basket suspended from a cable that is on a winch mounted to the basket.. Weld a padeye under the deck of an oil rig or whatnot and winch yourself up as needed

You know who paints the outside of a house from a ladder? People who don't have access to a lift

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Haha That's right.

Hi this might not. Be. reverlent but I live in hot country so Windows are always. open. our shower room keeps getting one wasp on the window I keep picking it up with tissue and throwing it out 7 times so far I don't want to killit🇨🇾😁🐝

He didn't get stung with short sleev shirt?

@628DirtRooster

Ай бұрын

Yes, he got stung

You need to get up with the times, Rooster! When Mrs. Rooster is using it, it's not a "man-lift", it's a "woman-lift", right? Btw, nice job, love the color!

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

You are right! My bad.

Why you were using a lift to paint wasn't the question I was going go ask.....I wanted to know why you weren't up there helping your wife😁😁😁

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

She likes to paint. When she's done I get in it and trim trees.

lots of white comb

Nice 🐝.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

The Lift is suppose to be unhitched from the truck!

@628DirtRooster

12 күн бұрын

Yep unless the self leveling feature doesn't rise above the height of uncompressed suspension.

My biggest problem would be finding a wife that would be willing to paint the house :)

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Mine has painted ours twice. I have to hold her back.

@MyHollowpoint

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster She's a keeper. I got old looking. :(

You have a great wife Rooster.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

I am surely blessed.

Howdy

$ 500 a day Pete could live on that for a month. Don't think the wife would.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Pete can pinch pennies for sure.

Thick, fat honey comb is quite pretty.

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

There was a bunch of it too.

Why don't you bring it up here and work on my house?

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Just send me the address.

@snarky_user

Жыл бұрын

@@628DirtRooster Too eager. You're going to charge me mileage also. I've been watching for a beat up, old, pickup mounted bucket truck just to do my gutters. They're high. I intend to park it on my buddy's farm and get a transit tag or trailer it once a year. But those things just don't show up like they used to.

@stanpatterson5033

Жыл бұрын

@@snarky_user I dunno, Darren on the Mustie1 channel seems to be able to find them with ease, and being the fixer-upper that he is, he buys the cheapest, usually most broken one he can find, makes a great video figuring out all the faults and correcting them. He's done 2 bucket trucks now. Yeah, he's up there in the NorthEast in New Hampshire. Not sure about availability in your neck of the weeds. Er... woods. Your neck of the woods. And don't get too snarky on me. I can only handle so much snark in a day.

All the excuses about why I'm using a boom lift to paint my house instead of a ladder, when the real reason is my wife can't climb a ladder

@carlsledge3868

Жыл бұрын

You dog lol, just kidding she's probably painter than you 🤣

Hey man get back to me I think people or illegally using your content unless you have them permission but no links to you or your channel

@628DirtRooster

Жыл бұрын

Hey Buckshot which video is it and where is it?