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Am I the only one who thinks slowing down on the swing is safer than the book's way?
Everyone in my local union hall keeps saying you have to keep your swing smooth and quick to beat the load's momentum, but two Tuesdays back at a site near Aurora I fought a 4,000 pound concrete panel that swung back on me and nearly took out the tagline guy. I eased off the joystick for just a half second instead of powering through it, and the load settled instead of whipping past the dump zone. Has anyone else had a close call where slowing down saved the pick, or am I just getting gun shy?
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charlie_lane8511d ago
The half second thing isn't really the swing slowing down, it's you taking the whip out of it. Tagline guys get hurt when the load gets ahead of the boom and then snaps back, and that snap comes from speed, not from easing off. But you still have to keep enough control to steer it, so it's more about a steady hand than going slow. A 4,000 pound panel at the end of a long line will do whatever the boom tells it to, so the fix is smooth stops and starts, not creeping.
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