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Rolled past 2,000 logged lift hours in KC and finally started writing down my rigging setups
I hit 2,000 hours on the same 60 ton Tadano at a job site off Truman Road in Kansas City last week and it caught me off guard because I never tracked anything before. I always brushed off the old guys who kept notebook logs of sling angles and pickup points, but after two close calls this year I sat down and started writing my own setups in a pocket notebook. For those of you who log your lifts, do you track it per crane or per job site?
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faith_smith23d ago
Per crane is the wrong way to do it, hate to say it. The crane is just the machine, the setup is about the load, the pick point, the radius, and the ground you're sitting on, and none of that follows the machine around from site to site. You're on a 60 ton Tadano now but the day you swap cranes all that notebook goes in the trash if it's tied to the iron instead of the job. Log the lift, the weight, the angle, the tag lines, the soil, and the date, and then it works no matter what you're running. Your mileage may vary but I'd bet money the two close calls this year had nothing to do with which crane you were on.
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