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johnfoster
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11h ago
Two years of flying blind until a guy in Houston told me to stop trusting the load chart on the wall
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taylor.jessica
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13h ago
Foreman in Tacoma told me to stop watching the load and watch the wind instead
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wrenwilson
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22h ago
Why does nobody talk about the walk down being harder than the climb up
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barbara399
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1d ago
Showerthought: spent 3 years booming down with the block riding the hook and a 20 year guy asked me one thing at the Richland job
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troyjackson
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2d ago
Tried tagging my sling angle on the load chart with red tape, cut my set-up time by 15 minutes
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tarab54
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3d ago
Bought a $140 load cell for my crane scale and it read 800 lbs heavy on the first lift
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cameron724
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4d ago
Lifted 14 trusses in 90 minutes on Tuesday, then spent Friday stuck behind a buried gas line
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foster.nathan
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5d ago
Vent: everyone says trust the chart, but it was a hand signal that saved my Tuesday
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iris_green84
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7d ago
Saw a 300 ton crawler lift a water tank in Boise and finally got why old guys check the ground first
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hugo_jones2
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7d ago
Lifting a 4,200 lb HVAC unit over a hospital in Dayton and the wind gusted at the worst possible second
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the_mason
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9d ago
My 58 year old spotter in Baltimore swears by hand signals over radios and I can't decide if he's right
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the_mason
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13d ago
Took me 3 hours to figure out my swing brake and it was one hose clamp
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taylor929
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13d ago
Saw a big port crane yard in Savannah and it changed my mind about older rigs
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evan151
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15d ago
Boom angle indicator saved my butt on a tight job in Detroit
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jordan653
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15d ago
Site safety guy flagged my rigging on a job in Portland last Tuesday
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