Vent: an old hand in Baltimore bet me $50 I couldn't boom up smooth with a worn swing brake
He walked up to my 60 ton rig at a job in Baltimore back in April and pointed at my swing brake, which had a small delay I had just been working around. Instead of fighting it with fast lever moves, I tried his way, slow and steady pressure, and my loads stopped swinging for the first time in two weeks. So what's your trick for a swing brake that grabs a hair late, do you adjust it or just change how you run the lever?