A simple thing I see guys messing up with tag lines on a windy day
I was on a job in Tacoma last month, moving some steel beams, and the wind kept picking up. I watched three different ground guys just try to muscle the tag line, pulling it tight against the swing. That's a good way to get a nasty shock load on the whole rig. The crane op I was working with, a guy named Ray who's been at it for thirty years, told me to always keep a little slack in the line, just enough to feel the load but not fight it. He said, 'Let the crane do the turning, you just guide it.' Since then, I've been way more aware of it, and it makes the whole move smoother and safer. How do you all handle tag line work when the weather gets rough?