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Veteran operator in Seattle told me to bump my load capacity down 10% on windy days
I ignored him for two years, thought I knew better. Last Tuesday I swung a 12 ton beam into a scaffold pole because a gust caught me off guard. Anybody else have advice from an old timer they wish they'd listened to sooner?
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betty_kelly927d ago
You ever get that feeling in your gut right before you do something stupid and just ignore it? I finally learned to trust the old guys after I dropped a load of lumber because I was in too big a hurry to tie it down right.
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tessa_murray27d ago
Tbh that's exactly the kind of lesson you only learn the hard way.
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Oh man, "learn the only hard way" hits close to home. I spent a whole weekend trying to fix my own car once because I thought I'd save money. Took me three days, I broke two tools, and I ended up paying a mechanic double what the original job would have cost. By the time I drove it home, I had that sinking feeling like yeah, I definitely needed to go through that mess to get it. Sometimes you just have to trip over the obvious thing a few times before you finally get it.
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