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Unpopular opinion: I stopped rushing my pre-lift walkaround and my load chart stopped looking like a suggestion
Last month I was on a tilt-up job in Stockton and I got lazy with my pre-lift routine. I had been doing the same quick walkaround for 15 minutes tops, kicking tires and glancing at the bubble. One morning I spent a full 40 minutes because the site super kept yapping at me, so I slow-rolled the whole thing. I found a hairline crack in my outrigger pad, a sling with a frayed edge, and my boom angle indicator was off by about 2 degrees. Nothing dramatic happened that day, but the next week I picked a 12,000 pound panel and my chart margin felt totally different. What I figured out is that those extra 25 minutes aren't wasted, they're the reason I'm not sweating the pick. Now I'm wondering if the old heads who take forever on setup are onto something I missed for years. Any of you got a pre-lift routine that takes way longer than people think it should?
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wendy_jackson24d ago
40 minutes in Stockton sounds about right, and here I am thinking I'm hot stuff because my walkaround takes 20 lol. Last summer I skipped checking my outrigger pads for like two weeks straight because I was in a hurry on a big box job, and then I found one sunk in mud past the float. Nothing tipped, but I sat there feeling like the world's dumbest guy with a crane ticket. Funny how the pick you skip the check on is always the one that almost bites you. Slow walkarounds feel like wasted time right up until they don't, and then they feel real cheap.
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