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matthew864
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22h ago
Showerthought: the new guys ask the load chart app instead of me now, and I get it
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jason_wood
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1d ago
Spent 6 months fighting the load chart on my Liebherr LTM 1090, then a guy in Tulsa showed me I was reading the wrong axis the whole time
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coleman.seth
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2d ago
Unpopular opinion: maxing out the boom angle isn't the flex people think it is
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mark_cooper
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2d ago
A retired operator in Tulsa asked me why I still rig by feel instead of checking my load chart twice
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wendy_park76
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4d ago
PSA: found out 1 in 5 crane deaths happens during assembly and setup, not lifting
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andrew_miller90
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5d ago
I called those anti-two-block alarms a crutch for lazy operators, then one saved my butt on a 60-ton in Tacoma
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jason_lopez
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6d ago
Found a 1968 operating log from a job in Gary and the hourly rate for a 60 ton truck crane made me sit down
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rileyl98
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7d ago
Showerthought: the guy who trained me on a 40 ton said to always bump the load twice before trusting the brake, and 6 months later that habit stopped a load from drifting over the sidewalk
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emerycarr
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7d ago
The Tuesday I picked a porta potty over the load and nobody noticed
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ellis.robert
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7d ago
Pro tip: stop letting the ground guy call your picks over the radio
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sean_foster99
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7d ago
Hot take: check your wind speed at the boom tip, not the cab, on tall picks
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terryallen
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7d ago
TIL a guy in the seat next to me at the Oshkosh training yard said to check my load chart the night before the lift
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uma_baker99
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9d ago
A 30 year guy at the yard in Tacoma told me to walk my swing radius every morning, and it finally clicked at 6am
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vera_lewis
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11d ago
I finally climbed down after 6 hours in the seat and realized I miss the old hand signals
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wright.taylor
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13d ago
A rigger in El Paso told me to stop booms down in high wind, and his reason was not what I expected
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