Hey guys, this is my first post ever!! So I am a new business owner we are now entering our second year. I purchased my first bucket truck yesterday and was wondering if i could paint the boom and can i use regular exterior paint??
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Really? Even the hydraulic fluid has to be changed. Paint is the same, oh well, I should be quiet or I will be called a bully.
Jeff
....Its was always regular spray paint...
Really? Even the hydraulic fluid has to be changed. Paint is the same, oh well, I should be quiet or I will be called a bully.
Jeff
Hey guys, this is my first post ever!! So I am a new business owner we are now entering our second year. I purchased my first bucket truck yesterday and was wondering if i could paint the boom and can i use regular exterior paint??
:help:
unless you're line-clearance qualified you shouldn't be closer than 10 feet from conductors anyway. For regular day to day tree servcie stuff, it doesn't need to be insulated, nor will you probably ever have it dielectrically tested. That being said, Unless you plan to work around energized conductors, I think you'll be fine to paint it. Good Luck!
what happens when your bucket goes nutz and you cant control it and it swings into a set of lines that you were 10 feet from??? we have a old high ranger sitting in the back that went crazy one day, too old to dump tons of money into so it got parked, the possibility is always there. there was also a guy on here that, I think, had something get jammed into the lower controls and it caused the bucket to try and literally lift a telephone pole out of the ground and the boom snapped. no electrocution but there must have been a pole for a reason...
He had plywood on the cage and it got stuck up against the lower controls. I think he did get the pole out of the ground. Call one of the guys that refurbish the trucks. I'm sure they will sell you paint that is non conductive. You even are supposed to be using non conductive grease.
what happens when your bucket goes nutz and you cant control it and it swings into a set of lines that you were 10 feet from??? we have a old high ranger sitting in the back that went crazy one day, too old to dump tons of money into so it got parked, the possibility is always there. there was also a guy on here that, I think, had something get jammed into the lower controls and it caused the bucket to try and literally lift a telephone pole out of the ground and the boom snapped. no electrocution but there must have been a pole for a reason...
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