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Set up two tower cranes last week and one was way smoother
One was a luffing jib and the other was a hammerhead, both on the same job site in Portland. The luffing jib took almost twice as long to get up because of all the extra pin work and rigging adjustments. Anyone else find hammerheads easier to deal with in tight spaces?
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sandra_bennett593d ago
Took me twice as long just to figure out which end was up on that luffing jib, lol.
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murphy.mason3d ago
Listen, I don't want to be that guy (but here I am being that guy), a luffing jib doesn't really have an "up" end in the way you're thinking. A luffing jib is the one that angles up and down like a crane arm, so both ends are kind of the same until you attach the topping lift and the rigging. What you probably had was a standard jib with a luff groove, where the "up" end is the head (the top pointy part) and the "down" end is the tack (the bottom corner). I've been sailing for 15 years and I still mix up my jib terminology when I'm tired, so no judgment here. The real trick is remembering the luff is the forward edge of the sail, not the whole sail itself - that's a mistake I made for way too long.
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the_wendy3d ago
Oh buddy, I've been there. Spent a whole afternoon trying to rig a jib upside down once, looked like a sad parrot on a stick. At least you figured it out faster than I did, I just sat there scratching my head for an hour.
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