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victorhill
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5h ago
Hot take: I blew off load charts for 8 years til a guy in Duluth set me straight
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reeseperez
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17h ago
Hot take: my old rig's cab felt like a cave until the boss finally swapped in LED lights last month
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raymitchell
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1d ago
Serious question, a kid at the Lubbock site asked why I radio the load before every pick and it got me thinking
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theac63
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1d ago
PSA: the old hand who said never boom up with a load on the hook was full of it
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the_stella
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4d ago
Picked a 60 ton truck crane over a 100 ton RT back in 2011, still not sure I got it right
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hayden_nelson85
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4d ago
Spent 6 hours stuck over a downtown Charlotte intersection and the radio went dead
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finleym43
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5d ago
Rant: site super swore by a 20 year old load chart app on a flip phone, and it saved our butts on a pick in Dallas
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grace_gonzalez46
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6d ago
Started adding 10 minutes of "look up time" before every pick and it caught a power line I would've missed
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diana_black
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7d ago
Watched a guy go from shaky to smooth in 3 weeks just by moving his seat 6 inches
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bennett.vera
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7d ago
Used to think hand signals were fine on short picks until the blind lift on 4th Ave
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alice269
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7d ago
Pro tip: nobody checks their outrigger pads after a rain, and I watched a 60 ton rig sink on Tuesday
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the_claire
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7d ago
I quit booming down with my old Liebherr and started trusting the LMI readout instead
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emmawood
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8d ago
A rigger in Houston said 'let the load tell you,' and it's stuck in my head
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cora863
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10d ago
I told a 30 year hand that pre-lift meetings were a waste, then I watched one 8 minute talk save a $14,000 panel
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hollyl45
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10d ago
Why I think the SMS signal rule is overrated, based on what I saw at a job in Tacoma
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