20,000 hours below 1,000'

[Bird]

http://www.beckley.org/beckley_intermodal_gateway/north_camera.html

This is the crane that I am running now, and it's alot lower than most, I am usually 300 to 600'.
What is hard on these cranes is that you have to stare at the smallest object (like a guys hand or finger) that is alteat 100 yards away instead of just watching the whole picture but you have to be aware of the whole picture the whole time. Try doing this for 12 hours a day-like putting a 10k lb bucket of concrete in a mans hand with 10 to 30 mph winds and the jib is 245' long--ATC's have it easy compaired to this.
Actually I have over 50,000 hours in 24 years of this

[Larry Lyons]

Re: 20,000 hours below 1,000'

Watching the hand giving you directions is one thing; trying to figure out what he wants is another. Does he want the load up a little, out a little, nope, nothing he was just batting at flys! L

[Bird]

Re: 20,000 hours below 1,000'

yeah I don't speak spanish hand signals lol

[Forrest Barber]

Re: 20,000 hours below 1,000'

Hi Bird ; I have used 'crane" talk a bit; Morgan Engineering here in Alliance , nothing like your machine; thanks for the link; now I can sit back and watch really neat stuff..... in my "spare" time ; this darn rain has really set us back.