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c/crane-operatorspaul_sanchezpaul_sanchez14d agoProlific Poster

Lost a whole morning's pay on a bad rigging chart download

I was setting up for a lift in Portland last week and pulled a rigging chart from a site called 'LiftPro Guides' that looked official but had the wrong sling angles for my 12-ton pick. We had to stop everything and redo the math, which cost me about $400 in lost time. Has anyone else run into sketchy online charts they thought were good?
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olivia_barnes97
Ugh that's brutal, sorry man. It's wild how much garbage info is floating around now dressed up to look legit. I see it all the time with car repair tutorials and even basic home wiring diagrams. People just slap a professional looking logo on bad data and call it a day. Makes you double check everything, which is exhausting but necessary.
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patricia_wright
What's the worst example of bad info you've seen that looked legit?
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