“But the chart says we’re legal at 80 feet!”
Then he checked the fine print at the bottom. crane load charts
Ray pointed to a yellow sticker on the chart. It showed a crane tipping forward, a stick figure crushed beneath the cab. The caption: “But the chart says we’re legal at 80 feet
Manny grumbled but relayed the order. They moved the crane. The lift took ninety seconds. As the prefab unit swung smoothly into place, Manny looked up at the cab. The caption: Manny grumbled but relayed the order
“Barely,” Ray replied. He looked past the chart to the actual ground. The left outrigger was sitting on a patch of fresh gravel, not the compacted dirt in the diagram. The wind was gusting to 18 knots. And the chart’s 48,000 lb rating assumed a perfect world—a level crane, no wind, a brand-new brake.