Post #780337
2026-03-25 08:46 UTC
So excited because I got moved to the taller crane on the job yesterday. It's not often I am on a modernized crane. I love the spacious cab, the anti-glare coating on the curved window, and specifically the trolley camera!
Here's a couple of photos of our concrete pickup point. As an example of how difficult our job can be, I am three hundred feet (sorry for the Imperial - craning in N.A. is just like that sigh...) away from picking up 14,000 lb buckets, ten feet from an active roadway. I have to put the empty buckets down beside buses, cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and people, (sometimes rando joggers actually IN the site) and not hit anything. On a typical afternoon I do this up to a hundred times.
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Replies (4)
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@jpab@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-25 12:50
@rightsprung this is cool! If you don't mind me asking, how does the load moment indicator work? What does it show you?
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@backstube@chaos.social 2026-03-25 14:33
@rightsprung Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Please send more pics, if you like to.
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@LeoDJ@chaos.social 2026-03-26 12:45
@rightsprung Oohhh, that's amazing! With a cable that long, how early do you have to give control inputs to bring the bucket to a stop at the right location? Or how long does it take to correct for sudden gusts of wind? Or is stuff like this already engraved in your muscle memory and you don't even really think about it?
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-03-26 15:34
@rightsprung Totally stupid question, but does it have a cup holder? 😆