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emmawood
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1d ago
Why I'll never trust a hand signal from the ground again after Philly
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the_wren
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1d ago
Picked the smaller rig for a tight job in Reno and it worked, but now I keep second guessing it
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reeseperez
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2d ago
Rant: A 30 year operator in Houston made me redo my whole rigging setup and I'm still mad he was right
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milessmith
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3d ago
Watched a guy boom up into live 13.8kV lines in Council Bluffs last Tuesday and I still feel sick about it
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sandraflores
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5d ago
Pin came out of my outrigger pad at 60 feet, had to lower the boom the slow way
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victorhill
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5d 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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6d 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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6d 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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6d 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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10d 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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10d ago
Spent 6 hours stuck over a downtown Charlotte intersection and the radio went dead
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finleym43
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11d 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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12d 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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12d 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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12d ago
Used to think hand signals were fine on short picks until the blind lift on 4th Ave
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