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Sublime one said

I have had a crane license for years, only good to 100T tho. No big boy cranes. It can get spooky very quickly, and most all of my dumb stunts were on smaller jobs where general contractors would stretch capabilities and applications. I always post one of my riggers on the back side soft foot with a radio. I tell him you see so much as a glimmer of light under my pad you tell me ASAP. Everything is fine right up till it is not on a crane.

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I spent lots of hours as an oiler during my apprenticeship, hydro and conventional. Red, one of my operators told me one day, "Your're not a real crane operator until you tip one over." Luckily I never got to be a "real" operator :lol:. I was oiling on the 45T Hydro stripping bridge falsework, Don had the boom stretched out ALL the way and close to horizontal and grabbed hold of a 12"x24" I beam about 60' long and we had to walk the rig out some for the beam to clear a bunch of obstacles. Don gives me the horn signal to get under way. Shortly after he gives me the "right turn" horn, I turn right, nothin' he repeats his signal, I look into my rear view and something doesn't look right, that's when I looked down and saw the steer tires were 6' off the ground :eek:. Cautiously I got the rig stopped and the horn honking begins again, I just stuck my arm out the window and pointed at the ground when he looked my way :lol:.