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uma_ellis
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1d ago
Used to eyeball my load charts, now I break out the calculator every single pick
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nora110
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2d ago
Swore off hand signals on blind picks, went back to them 6 months ago
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ericj45
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3d ago
Took me 3 weeks and a $40 hose to figure out my outrigger pad kept sinking on the same muddy corner in Baton Rouge
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emery_black
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3d ago
The retired operator at the diner in Gary told me to quit watching my load and watch my boom, and it clicked 6 years in
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adamthompson
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4d ago
Saw a rigger choke a 4-leg sling at 60 degrees and call it good, that's a 1.7x multiplier not 1.4
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logan_ellis
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4d ago
Pro tip: the old rigger who said to bounce the load before every pick was onto something
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milaw14
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8d ago
Why does nobody talk about counterweight math being a pencil habit
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fiona985
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10d ago
Warning: heard a guy on a jobsite in Dallas say he never checks his load chart before a pick
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uma_taylor47
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11d ago
Unpopular opinion: stop using the load chart app on your phone, the paper chart in the cab saved my butt on a 40 ton pick in Dallas
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ericj45
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11d ago
Can we talk about the swing radius sign I saw at the port in Savannah?
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owens.zara
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16d ago
Vent: a 30 year guy at the yard said to boom down before swinging and it saved my load
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blair_martin
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17d ago
TIL to stop trusting the wind sock at the Rialto site after it lied to me at 90 feet
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roberts95
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17d ago
Showerthought: I hit 1,000 lifts on my chart last week and the number that stopped me was the tower crane
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wendyg43
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17d ago
Guy in a hard hat asked if I could lift his truck off a curb, not a joke
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the_diana
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18d ago
Foreman said my daily pin check was overkill, so I stopped doing it for 3 weeks, never again
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