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Handling big spools
Made this to handle a big spool with forks.
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Really nice job but I'd be afraid of the heavy rolls bending those slotted axle stubs.
I think I would have kept the axle intact and built two "U" shapes cradles to support them on top of the forks. Be easier to pick the roll up without having to align the forks through the slot.
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Re: Handling big spools
Originally Posted by
Lis2323
Really nice job but I'd be afraid of the heavy rolls bending those slotted axle stubs.
I think I would have kept the axle intact and built two "U" shapes cradles to support them on top of the forks. Be easier to pick the roll up without having to align the forks through the slot.
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I have seen quite a few 'u-cradle' or whatever U call them at the supply houses I go to... some of them look homemade some not... as long as it makes the job easier then it's a WIN!!!!
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Originally Posted by
Lis2323
Really nice job but I'd be afraid of the heavy rolls bending those slotted axle stubs.
I think I would have kept the axle intact and built two "U" shapes cradles to support them on top of the forks. Be easier to pick the roll up without having to align the forks through the slot.
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The spool I was handling here was fiber optic cable--5000' @ 600lbs. It was light enough to handle with a slit axle, the problem I had was the bulk of the spool.
I threw this together and had all the cable laid in an hour. To load and unload the spool I set the forks in front of spool and rolled it onto the forks keeping the axle slits aligned. Tightened the lock bolts, and away I went.
Heavier spools may need an uncut axle but the collars will work on any 2" pipe axle.
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Handling big spools
Thanks mbarasing.
I kind of assumed it must have worked okay or you would not have posted the pic.
My comment was not meant to be derogatory but more an observation as I realize how heavy some of those spools are.
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I've done similar with a plain pipe sitting on top of the forks and a couple blocks of wood. I just tipped the forks back to hold it, but you could put stops on the front to help keep it in place also. Mine was one and done, so I kept it super simple.
-Dave
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Re: Handling big spools
Originally Posted by
davec
I've done similar with a plain pipe sitting on top of the forks and a couple blocks of wood. I just tipped the forks back to hold it, but you could put stops on the front to help keep it in place also. Mine was one and done, so I kept it super simple.
Nice job. I had to drive the tractor up and down rock ledges to lay the fiber in the trench and it would have bounced off the forks. At least a think it would have.
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mbarasing
Nice job. I had to drive the tractor up and down rock ledges to lay the fiber in the trench and it would have bounced off the forks. At least a think it would have.
Had a guy bring out 900 feet of armored 1:2:2 for a power trench I was doing few years ago had U mounts in the back of his truck... anyways he drove to the other end of the trench 'carefully' and halfway there the spool popped off one side cause he didn't have it pinned down took him half an hour to get it back on with a couple of bottle jacks and some wood planks... even these roller stands have issues when the rolls get too light to keep them in place when you're pulling 750mcm
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Originally Posted by
ronsii
Had a guy bring out 900 feet of armored 1:2:2 for a power trench I was doing few years ago had U mounts in the back of his truck... anyways he drove to the other end of the trench 'carefully' and halfway there the spool popped off one side cause he didn't have it pinned down
took him half an hour to get it back on with a couple of bottle jacks and some wood planks... even these roller stands have issues when the rolls get too light to keep them in place when you're pulling 750mcm
I'm glad I don't tug much copper /aluminum wire anymore. I have more experience laying HDPE in trenches, this was my first fiber run. I opened it up and seen those little hairs inside and decided to be very careful with it even though its armored. Cut about a mile of ditch and only hit 2 telephone lines, 1 septic leech field, and secondary electric twice, but no water pipes... success!
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mbarasing
I'm glad I don't tug much copper /aluminum wire anymore. I have more experience laying HDPE in trenches, this was my first fiber run. I opened it up and seen those little hairs inside and decided to be very careful with it even though its armored. Cut about a mile of ditch and only hit 2 telephone lines, 1 septic leech field, and secondary electric twice, but no water pipes... success!
What!!! no primary power??? where's the excitement in that
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ronsii
What!!! no primary power??? where's the excitement in that
Part of my ditch paralleled some 3 ph. primary, and out here 811 gets you nothing but a ticket number. I had a good idea of where that was and steered clear.
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Re: Handling big spools
Originally Posted by
ronsii
Had a guy bring out 900 feet of armored 1:2:2 for a power trench I was doing few years ago had U mounts in the back of his truck... anyways he drove to the other end of the trench 'carefully' and halfway there the spool popped off one side cause he didn't have it pinned down
took him half an hour to get it back on with a couple of bottle jacks and some wood planks... even these roller stands have issues when the rolls get too light to keep them in place when you're pulling 750mcm
That's why I prefer to pull the wire off of the spools from the bottom. I think it is less likely to tug the spools off the jack stands that way.
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PDXsparky
That's why I prefer to pull the wire off of the spools from the bottom. I think it is less likely to tug the spools off the jack stands that way.
These guys did it over head to minimize the abrasion as per power co's request... doesn't show in the pic but it goes another 40 feet up a ramp then up about 20 feet to the guys in the sissorlift to be fed into the 3 - 4 inch conduit runs of about 160 feet each with max number of bends...+ The guys working in the lift were keeping it lubed while the guys working the reels were straighten some then the guys at the new vault had the puller going.. and it puled hard!!!
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Years ago we were puttin a new hoist rope on the Marion 7400. You pull it up from the ground under the tip of the boom down the boom into the house make one wrap around the drum and clamp it into the drum. Simple right? Yeah simple.
So we are doin the deed and Im just about ready to make the connection on the drum and the little cable on the winch snaps, the hoist rope whips around the drum hits me in the ribs and knocks me into the drag drum, goes out the house all the way back up the boom around the shiv wheel at the tip and down to the ground. We had a loader holding up the spool on a pipe similar to what mbarsing made. The hoist rope piled up all over the loader, how it didnt smash somethin I never know. Guy runnin the loader damn near be**** his britches.
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I guess you could say he got wired
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