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Shoutout to the old crawler crane manuals
New guys keep eyeballing pick radii instead of checking the load chart. Picked up a 1987 Link-Belt HC-218 manual at a yard sale in Ohio last year. Has anyone else noticed operators skipping the chart and just guessing?
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ryanh5614d agoTop Commenter
Eyeballing pick radii" yeah that checks out, I've done it too and nearly tipped a crane over.
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piper_burns14d ago
That moment when you're off by like six inches on a 50 ton pick and suddenly your load chart is lying to you. I remember one job where this guy guesstimated a 12 foot radius on a 30 ton crane, turned out it was actually 14 feet, and the whole rig started leaning forward like it was bowing to the load. He got it back down but there was a moment where everyone just froze and stared. Never seen a foreman go from red to white that fast. Scary stuff.
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