@jst1ofknd same i ended up choosing the crane. we live in a 3rd floor attic apartment and both stairwells are extremely tight. all our furniture had to be assembled in our apartment and some things even had to be unboxed on the lawn first to get the pieces up here. i’m pretty sure they must have used a crane to get appliances and the tub in here. having the crane already would eliminate some of the excuses my LL will inevitably give when the appliances bite the dust.
They’re all good, but I think the piledriver is the most underrated piece of construction equipment. A few months ago I watched one do its thing at a waterside project. It was like a portable earthquake. I really, really wanted one of my own.
@mehcuda67 There is a construction project across the street from my office. When they first broke ground they had one operating nonstop for weeks and weeks. 300 or 400 yards away, sitting at my desk I could feel every hammer blow. Sometimes I noticed it was causing ripples in the water cup on my desk. I’m still partially traumatized by the experience.
@mehcuda67@ruouttaurmind Same thing happened at my work. But it was mostly the constant banging sound that drove me crazy. I spent 9 hours a day wearing ear plugs with noise canceling headphones over them. When I left work I could hear the banging for hours and hours and sometimes in my sleep. Several people told me that I seemed distressed.
Oh man, so many choices. So much potential for bad decisions and/or jail time. I guess the bulldozer just in case I needed to make myself a parking spot somewhere.
I mean, realistically, I’d rather just fill my truck bed up with old power tools. But if it has to be something big, probably an excavator. It seems like it’d be the most useful around the property.
Current wishlist for the workshop: thickness planer, belt grinder, disc sander, drill press, band saw, bigger air compressor, radial arm saw, pneumatic nail gun(s). I’d be happy to walk away with any three of those.
I want to change my choice. I picked crane, but realized I only have a two story house. A big excavator can get the bucket that high, or even replace the bucket with a chain and hook. Then the excavator becomes a crane.
I hope the excavator comes with training, fuel, and insurance, otherwise, turning it on will bankrupt me.
I’d get an excavator and soup it up and call it the MegaKilldozer. I don’t have any enemies right now, but I definitely wouldn’t once I had an unstoppable tank with a spiked arm parked in my driveway.
@therealjrn Yeah dude was like Tony Stark in the caves at the beginning of Iron Man 1 but nuts.
“This darn zoning commission has crossed the line! Guess I have no choice but to spend 18 months converting my bulldozer into a fortified death machine to demolish the whole town.”
The steamroller. I have a long, winding path/road down to my barn and the weeds/saplings/brambles grow like crazy, making it hard to keep mowed. “Take that, berry brambles! Die, saplings!”
I went with bulldozer, mostly because I could use one right now to do some work on my property.
In college, my summer job was working for a local guy who did excavation and logging. He basically turned 19-year-old me loose with heavy equipment to learn as I went. So I ran his bulldozer, backhoe and log skidder on various jobs. I’m quite proud of the fact that I never killed myself (or anyone else) and still have all my limbs. Mostly dumb luck, but still…
I wanted an earth mover ya know, but the boss said no. We were driving through Mooresboro and the local dirtworks guy had one for sale, and I though Fuckin A. So I said hey I’m gonna buy that earth mover. The little woman put the kabosh that in a hurry. Ah pitty, what could have been. Some just have no vision.
I’ll take the crane. I could make an awful lot of money renting it out.
@cinoclav The real money is YouTube videos where it falls over
I spent way too much time actually considering what would be most useful to me…
@jst1ofknd same
i ended up choosing the crane. we live in a 3rd floor attic apartment and both stairwells are extremely tight. all our furniture had to be assembled in our apartment and some things even had to be unboxed on the lawn first to get the pieces up here. i’m pretty sure they must have used a crane to get appliances and the tub in here. having the crane already would eliminate some of the excuses my LL will inevitably give when the appliances bite the dust.
No fair making me choose just one, Meh.
They’re all good, but I think the piledriver is the most underrated piece of construction equipment. A few months ago I watched one do its thing at a waterside project. It was like a portable earthquake. I really, really wanted one of my own.
@mehcuda67 There is a construction project across the street from my office. When they first broke ground they had one operating nonstop for weeks and weeks. 300 or 400 yards away, sitting at my desk I could feel every hammer blow. Sometimes I noticed it was causing ripples in the water cup on my desk. I’m still partially traumatized by the experience.
@mehcuda67 @ruouttaurmind Same thing happened at my work. But it was mostly the constant banging sound that drove me crazy. I spent 9 hours a day wearing ear plugs with noise canceling headphones over them. When I left work I could hear the banging for hours and hours and sometimes in my sleep. Several people told me that I seemed distressed.
Then one day it stopped.
I don’t miss it.
@ruouttaurmind Ripples in your cup can only mean one thing.
Oh man, so many choices. So much potential for bad decisions and/or jail time. I guess the bulldozer just in case I needed to make myself a parking spot somewhere.
@cpierce Plus it can bust you out of jail…
At first I didn’t realize this was a poll, never clicked a topic so fast in my life.
did this immediately come to mind for anyone else?
@spacemart I came here to post exactly that. Heywood Banks is awesome.
The Backhoe. It just sounds like fun.
@hchavers
/giphy back-ho
/giphy jackhammer
Gimme that digger! Unlimited attachment options, from a bucket to a claw, a jackhammer, even a cutting torch.
/giphy skidsteer
Front-end loader. The Swiss army knife of construction equipment.
@DVDBZN That was my first choice too! Also fun to drive.
Steamroller and then I’d put my steamroller up for rent on movie sets.
@Targaryen
@FightingMongoos Roger Rabbit, man that movie was pretty messed up as a kid.
I mean, realistically, I’d rather just fill my truck bed up with old power tools. But if it has to be something big, probably an excavator. It seems like it’d be the most useful around the property.
Current wishlist for the workshop: thickness planer, belt grinder, disc sander, drill press, band saw, bigger air compressor, radial arm saw, pneumatic nail gun(s). I’d be happy to walk away with any three of those.
@dannybeans According to the pros I know, you’d be better off with a nice sliding miter saw than the radial arm saw. YMMV
I want to change my choice. I picked crane, but realized I only have a two story house. A big excavator can get the bucket that high, or even replace the bucket with a chain and hook. Then the excavator becomes a crane.
I hope the excavator comes with training, fuel, and insurance, otherwise, turning it on will bankrupt me.
A 60’ JLG would come in handy. Now, where to park it?
I’d get an excavator and soup it up and call it the MegaKilldozer. I don’t have any enemies right now, but I definitely wouldn’t once I had an unstoppable tank with a spiked arm parked in my driveway.
Come at me, home owner’s association.
@Moose
Marvin! The man knew how to commit!
Sucks that it ended that way.
@therealjrn Yeah dude was like Tony Stark in the caves at the beginning of Iron Man 1 but nuts.
“This darn zoning commission has crossed the line! Guess I have no choice but to spend 18 months converting my bulldozer into a fortified death machine to demolish the whole town.”
I’d go with the dump truck. Many opportunities around here to make money with a dump truck.
@tnhillbillygal There’s more money to be made with cranes.
The steamroller. I have a long, winding path/road down to my barn and the weeds/saplings/brambles grow like crazy, making it hard to keep mowed. “Take that, berry brambles! Die, saplings!”
I went with bulldozer, mostly because I could use one right now to do some work on my property.
In college, my summer job was working for a local guy who did excavation and logging. He basically turned 19-year-old me loose with heavy equipment to learn as I went. So I ran his bulldozer, backhoe and log skidder on various jobs. I’m quite proud of the fact that I never killed myself (or anyone else) and still have all my limbs. Mostly dumb luck, but still…
I want a welder. Can’t I just have a welder?
/image big welder
The owner’s pickup truck.
@cranky1950 If it has a Cummins diesel…
The Bobcat, because with all those attachments, it can do most anything.
@Eskieguy Bobcat brand or general skidsteer?
A bulldozer would make a great starting point for my second retirement project: an ersatz Bolo Mark 1 tank.
I wanted an earth mover ya know, but the boss said no. We were driving through Mooresboro and the local dirtworks guy had one for sale, and I though Fuckin A. So I said hey I’m gonna buy that earth mover. The little woman put the kabosh that in a hurry. Ah pitty, what could have been. Some just have no vision.
EXCAVATOR!!! SO I CAN DIG A BOMB SHELTER!!! THEN I CAN PICK A FIGHT WITH NORTH KOREA!!! !!!
I’d love that excavator. Well, I’m gonna need that dump truck also. I’ll also need that little D7 dozer just to level the ground out when I’m done.