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The day they stopped using paper load charts is still wild to me
I remember back in 2007 when I first started running a Grove RT530E, my old foreman had this beat up binder stuffed with paper load charts for every possible configuration. You had to flip through pages of boom lengths and radii while the guy on the ground waited. Now I see guys with tablets mounted in the cab and the load moment indicator does half the thinking. What really got me was when I hopped in a 2023 Terex last spring and the screen showed me the exact safe zone highlighted in green. Has anyone else noticed how much slower the older guys take to trust the computers over their own eyeball math?
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the_harper1mo ago
Safe zone highlighted in green" sounds nice until it glitches and shows you the danger zone is actually fine. I'm still waiting for the day my phone tells me to take a break and then bills me for it. Guess us old dogs just like the warm fuzzy feeling of paper, even if it takes twice as long to find the right page.
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vera_robinson361mo ago
Our phones are pretty good at their job even with the occasional glitch. I don't think Google Maps is going to send my husband a bill for telling him to take a rest stop, that sounds like a slippery slope argument.
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evan_green521mo ago
That 2016 study from the University of Utah about GPS errors causing 300,000 crashes a year comes to mind anytime someone says maps are basically fine. Glitches don't have to send bills to be a problem, they just have to send someone down a closed road at night. Slippery slope arguments can be easy to dismiss until your own spouse misses a turn because the app froze for five seconds. Are we really acting like software never drops the ball in a way that matters?
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