Am I the only one who spent 8 years running the wrong reeving pattern on my LTM 1050?

I was swapping a jib section with an older operator last fall and he just looked at my setup and said 'you've been doing that backwards, kid' and sure enough I'd been running the fall line the wrong direction the whole time so the load floated instead of dropping smooth, anyone else get called out on something basic after years of doing it wrong?

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cameron_chen631mo ago

lol I actually just read something about this exact thing in a crane maintenance forum. They said wrong reeving on LTM models can cause the load to drift weird because of how the drum grooves are cut. It sounds dumb but I bet half the guys running those older Liebherrs have done it at some point. I remember a guy online said he ran his jib line backwards for almost a decade before a dealer tech pointed it out during a service call.

nathanbennett1mo ago

How long did he run it backwards... ten years?