Serious question, has anyone else had a rigger argue you should always swing the load over the cab for a faster cycle?

This guy on a site in Boise last fall kept insisting it was fine, saying 'the manual is just covering their butts, I've done it for 20 years', but I shut the job down until we could re-position the crane because I've seen what happens when a line parts under that kind of angle.

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joseph_torres7d ago

Twenty years of ignoring the manual is insane.

diana207d ago

Twenty years of ignoring the manual" is the part that gets me. How do you even make it that long without a major accident? That's not experience, it's just dumb luck.