Masonry Magazine April 2003 Page. 24
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Also with similar capabilities is the Extendo T-series from Pettibone/Traverse Lift, Baraga, Mich. According to Kevin Walsh, the company's president, "The various Model T units also have a traversing carriage that allows the whole boom to slide forward, but what we believe sets our machines apart from any other is the control system. We have some of the finest hydraulic controls of any forklift. You can imagine, when your boom is sticking up some 40 feet in the air, any movement of the control can be compounded with the distance. That's where the 'featherability, as our customers like to call it, is very nice to have."
He continues, "Picture it this way: you pull up to a job site, in front of some scaffolding, and you're trying to get a tub of mortar or a pallet of block up to the workers on the scaffolding. With a fixed-boom machine, generally you lift the boom up and shoot it out and you go up above the level where you are trying to land it, and then you drop it down onto the right level. It's easier to land a load if you can simply lift the boom, line it up, and slide the whole package forward. In the first case scenario, with the fixed-boom machine, you're actually bringing a load down and dropping it from pretty high in the air onto a level of scaffolding. With the transfer-style machine, you're simply sliding it forward. So, if you were to make a mistake with a fixed-boom machine, you could potentially jar the whole scaffolding and that gets the workers a little nervous. Or, I've heard of scenarios where it's possible to knock down some scaffolding if you're not careful. With the transfer-style machine, if you're at the wrong level as you're sliding the load forward, the worst you're going to do is bump into the scaffolding, and then you can get back up, raise or lower, then slide it forward again."
Kiskunas discusses another scenario, "One of the great features of the sliding boom system is that when you're up in the air, working on scaffolding, the mason contractor will want to land his material on the wall side of the scaffolding as opposed to the back side of the scaffolding. They'll want to have all the weight on the
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