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Dropped the load chart app for the printed booklet and my lift planning got faster, not slower
Six months back I started using that free load chart app on my phone for a 90 ton Grove we run out of the yard near Fresno, mostly because it was quick to pull up. Last month I got sick of pinching and zooming on a cracked screen in the sun and dug out the paper booklet from the cab. Night and day. The app buries the capacity numbers three taps deep and goes dark whenever the glare hits it, so I was guessing half the time or walking back to shade. The booklet lays the whole chart out flat, I can lay a thumb on the radius row and read capacity straight across in two seconds, and I can pencil in my own notes by each column. I've caught two lifts since where I'd have been over by about 500 pounds if I'd trusted the app's default config. The booklet doesn't need a signal, doesn't die at 20 percent, and doesn't lie to me after an update. Anyone else gone back to paper charts, or am I just getting old and stubborn?
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the_brooke11h ago
What was the default config on the app set to that had you 500 pounds over? That part caught my eye because a wrong default is way scarier than a slow menu. If the app was assuming a setup your crane didn't have, that's a settings problem and not a paper vs screen problem, and it would bite anybody who never dug into the config screens. Did you figure out which setting it was, outriggers or counterweight or boom length? Worth knowing so other folks running that app can check theirs.
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