Cool crane work at work today.

[STINEY]

We switched over to natural gas last summer for our corn dryer (and everything else while we were at it). Trenched a gas line 2 miles across our fields, bored under 1 road and bored under 1 building.

Whole thing paid for itself in 1 season of drying costs. Saved enough over propane to pay for the install plus some.

Today the old propane tank went away. Two cranes and a flatbed lowboy semi trailer. The tank ended up being centered lengthwise over the rear tires of the lowboy. That seems like a bunch for 12 tires to take, not to mention the 25' overhang off the back.

Glad its not me driving!

[DanStokes]

Tanks! Tanks a lot!

And here I was looking for pics of a bird.

Dan

[STINEY]

Boirds? Someone say Boirds?

Your Velcome!

[peewee]

[Huskinhano]

Pretty impressive savings! Yep, the price of natural gas has gone way down. You're going to see a lot more convertions! I was reading one company's web page that converted OTR diesel to natural gas. Prices started at $6K to $12K and they said pay back could be as little as 6 months. With the advent of fracking, it's just unleashed a tremendous amount of oil and gas.

This is at the end of my road, 3/8 mile away. It lights up yard at night.

[DanStokes]

We don't have natural gas in the sub - darn it. We have electric heat but we don't use a ton of it as it stys pretty warm here (compared to MI). I'd like to have NG for the shop heat but it'll have to be propane - have the heater.

Dan

[oldsman496]

Fracking needs LOTS of water and that's in short supply in a lot of areas due to the drought conditions. look for prices to rise a bunch if this weather continues. cool pics and definately cool cranes.

[STINEY]

The crane is back today. These guys are like monkeys hopping around up there....... wonder how many times some of them have fallen already? (not here but at other similar jobs) One was doing the Macarana dance while waiting for the trusses to be lifted into place.

[SuperBuickGuy]

The crane is back today. These guys are like monkeys hopping around up there....... wonder how many times some of them have fallen already? (not here but at other similar jobs) One was doing the Macarana dance while waiting for the trusses to be lifted into place.

That building would be just about the right size for a hobby barn....

[milner351]

I wish that was my new shop - look at the size of that building - it might take all my 185,000 btu cleanburn could do to take the chill off in the winter - is that your new equipment showroom?