Talked to a tower crane guy at the union hall and it got me rethinking ground ops

He said ground crews are the real weak link in most picks, not the operator... told me about a job in Detroit where the signal person kept giving him wrong hand signals because they were too new. Makes me wonder if we focus too much on the crane itself and not enough on who's below it... anyone else ever deal with a green ground crew that made a simple lift sketchy?

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kevin_harris7813d ago

Reminds me of a pick in Cleveland where the oiler knew more than the foreman.

johnson.jason13d ago

5 years in the oilfield taught me that the guy with the grease rag usually has the right answer.