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A 30 year operator asked me why I was booming down so early, and it stuck with me
Was setting a steel beam on a job in Fort Worth about 3 weeks ago and I kept booming down fast then creeping, which I thought was smooth. He said "you're fighting the load the whole way, try one steady line and let the block do the work." Cut my cycle time by maybe 20 seconds a pick and the swing stopped jerking, so now I watch the load line instead of my hands.
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lilya7619d ago
Back in 2019 I was running a Link-Belt on a parking garage in Waco and had the same bad habit, boom down quick then feather it in, and the operator I was working with told me about the same thing. He had me run empty first, just one smooth stick movement down, and watch the headache ball instead of my hands on the joysticks. Took me about a week to stop overcorrecting but the load quit swinging on me and I could see where the hook was going without guessing. The part that really got me was how much less I was thinking, because my hands were doing one thing instead of two. Funny how a guy with 30 years can fix in one sentence what you've been doing wrong for months. Watching the load line instead of your hands is the whole trick, your eyes tell your hands what to do without you even noticing.
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