That week last August when the wind nearly shut us down for 3 days straight

I was working a job at the Port of Newark lifting HVAC units onto a new warehouse roof. The anemometer on my Liebherr LTM 1050 kept hitting 25 mph gusts by 9 AM, and the site super wouldn't let me swing anything over 15 mph. Lost almost 20 hours of billable time that week, and the ground crew was just sitting around getting paid to drink water. Anyone else have a stretch of weather that killed your pay for the week?

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the_thomas13d ago

Wait, the ground crew was getting paid to sit around and drink water for 20 hours? That's wild. Where I work, if the wind shuts us down, everyone gets sent home unpaid. The operators stick around to secure the crane, but the ground guys are gone. So you're telling me you lost 20 hours of your own pay while watching dudes collect a check for doing nothing? That would grind my gears way worse than the weather itself. I'd be tempted to take the super aside and ask if I could switch to the ground crew for a week.

ray36314d ago

Man, you gotta wonder if the super was playing it too safe or covering his own tail. I've been on jobs where the anemometer was reading 15, but the gusts felt way sketchier, and other times it was the opposite. Take it with a grain of salt, but sometimes those wind limits are more about liability than actual danger, which just eats your pocketbook.