Andrew Camarata

[Industrial Toys]

More than I could with a top end Ferrari and Rolex watch!

 

[daugen]

his latest video was fun, he wasn't being his most careful for sure.
Sawing wood up in the trees without any glasses on at all, and then dropping a tree
on his brand new machine. But we got to watch him bend it back into shape quite effectively.
That one dog of his is really slowing down while the younger one runs around like a pup.

 

[Industrial Toys]

OK Now I am confused. I was looking for a video of that tracked man lift. Incidentally, my Utility came across a snowy field with one and a small tracked crane to change my transformer last winter.

So, I didn't find anything on the lift. But I did find a short interview with Andrew. Seems he is living in that container castle with "one room heated". I guess, he was living at his parents house.

I wonder how that castle met any building codes for occupency. Seems like a very unsuitable building for typical modern living standards.

 

[4570Man]

I wonder how that castle met any building codes for occupency. Seems like a very unsuitable building for typical modern living standards.

It probably didn’t and as far as they’re concerned it’s a shop.

 

[daugen]

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks for that link.

OF COURSE, Wood will ALWAYS fall where it does the most damage. First rule. Get any equipment twice as far away as you think is safely out of harms way!

It would scare me a bit that the thing was home built. I would have put larger pads under those stabilizers. Maybe the ground is frozen. I want a lift, but falling from height is not the way I wish to die.

Funny, I had EXACTLY the same thing happen under the exact same circumstances with a rope. Five hundred feet or so from swing stage use, found in a friends garbage. I thought it was ROTTEN, but maybe not. I was going to throw it out because I don't trust it anymore.

TO him, it might be more useful as a mini dump truck as he does construction. VERY SMALL payload though. To me, the lift would be more valuable.

 

[FTG-05]

OK Now I am confused. I was looking for a video of that tracked man lift. Incidentally, my Utility came across a snowy field with one and a small tracked crane to change my transformer last winter.

So, I didn't find anything on the lift. But I did find a short interview with Andrew. Seems he is living in that container castle with "one room heated". I guess, he was living at his parents house.

I wonder how that castle met any building codes for occupency. Seems like a very unsuitable building for typical modern living standards.

I'm not aware of any bathroom facilities or even running water in the building except for the downstairs shop area.

Plus, heating and cooling a steel-roofed building? Haven't seen the plan yet.

 

[4570Man]

Thanks for that link.

OF COURSE, Wood will ALWAYS fall where it does the most damage. First rule. Get any equipment twice as far away as you think is safely out of harms way!

It would scare me a bit that the thing was home built. I would have put larger pads under those stabilizers. Maybe the ground is frozen. I want a lift, but falling from height is not the way I wish to die.

Funny, I had EXACTLY the same thing happen under the exact same circumstances with a rope. Five hundred feet or so from swing stage use, found in a friends garbage. I thought it was ROTTEN, but maybe not. I was going to throw it out because I don't trust it anymore.

TO him, it might be more useful as a mini dump truck as he does construction. VERY SMALL payload though. To me, the lift would be more valuable.

I don’t like those truck stabilizers. I guess they do that so they don’t block traffic as bad on utility trucks but I’d feel a lot better with a swing down stabilizer like a backhoe. And his tree removal was pretty much a disaster. When you have a lift you don’t cut chunks that big. You strip the trunk and then cut chunks off until it’s safe to cut the remaining piece of base from the ground. That lift looks pretty short. It wouldn’t be a lot of use for big trees but he wasn’t out of boom on that little tree.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I thought he was at max height, and I thought of it's limitations at that point. I think he just wanted to "PLAY", because there was no need to trim that tree to bring it down. Sad, that his playing cost damage to his newest toy. Been there done that too! Not only that, but the whole operation is inherently dangerous and not something I would have done for fun. Of course, I'm not making YouTube videos either.

 

[4570Man]

I thought he was at max height, and I thought of it's limitations at that point. I think he just wanted to "PLAY", because there was no need to trim that tree to bring it down. Sad, that his playing cost damage to his newest toy. Been there done that too! Not only that, but the whole operation is inherently dangerous and not something I would have done for fun. Of course, I'm not making YouTube videos either.

I doubt that was over a 30 foot boom. My bucket truck was a 50 foot boom and it was too short. You really need an 80 footer for tree work. But I never saw him go to max height. The clip of him sawing wasn’t even half way up.