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Took me 4 hours to level a 50-ton crawler crane on a sloped lot near Nashville last Tuesday
What should have been a 45-minute setup turned into a nightmare because the ground was soft from rain the night before and I had to keep re-spreading the crane mats three times before the outriggers stopped sinking - anyone else deal with hidden soft spots that waste your whole morning?
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betty_perry2411h agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, that soft ground after rain is the worst. You think you've got it all figured out with the mats and then the outriggers just keep sinking anyway. I had a job near a creek bed one time and it took three different tries with different mat placements before I finally got solid enough to lift. What gets me is how the ground looks fine on top but you don't know what's underneath until you put weight on it. Next time you might try stacking two layers of mats on the spots that look suspicious, saves the headache of re-spreading everything over and over.
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corah759h agoRising Star
Never really believed in stacking mats 'til you said that, but I guess that's the kind of lesson you only learn the hard way.
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aaron8809h ago
Man that creek bed story hits close to home. I had a similar mess last spring near Memphis where the topsoil looked solid but underneath was basically soup. Stacked mats saved my day too but I lost almost three hours figuring it out the hard way.
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