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Spent $200 on a radio remote for my older crane and it paid off in one afternoon
Bought a used radio remote setup off a guy retiring last spring and hooked it up to my '93 Link-Belt. Stuck picking steel in the rain that day and being able to walk around the load instead of yelling at a spotter saved me at least 2 hours. Anyone else running old iron with new tech like this?
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tylermurray17d agoTop Commenter
Buddy of mine put a backup camera and a cheap monitor on his old Grove from the 80s. Said he stopped running into shit and cracked concrete on the first job. Called it the best 150 bucks he ever spent on that rust bucket.
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benk2617d ago
Why would you want to throw more money at an old machine that's probably not worth much more than scrap? Even if it saves some concrete and dings, you're still driving a rust bucket that might break down next week, @tylermurray. Seems like a bandaid fix for a machine that probably needs to be replaced anyway.
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tessa36817d ago
Best 150 bucks he ever spent" really got me thinking... I used to think those cameras were just overkill for old machines, figured you learned to work with what you had. But hearing about how much it saved in cracked concrete and busted stuff makes me reconsider, honestly kind of changes my mind on the whole thing.
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