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Disagreed with a veteran operator at a job site in Houston about running the swing brake on a crawler crane during pickup
He told me to keep the brake locked tight on every lift, but I stood my ground and showed him how the load chart had 75% capacity left, and after 3 tries he admitted the crane rode smoother without it, has anyone else dealt with an old-timer pushing outdated rules?
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elliotm576d ago
Buddy in Baton Rouge had that exact fight with a 30-year man on a Link-Belt last spring.
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the_piper6d ago
Forgot about the heat down there making hydraulic oil act totally different than up north. @elliotm57, that 30-year man probably had tricks for bleeding pressure on the Link-Belt that the newer guys wouldn't even think about. That's the kind of knowledge that doesn't get written down in any manual. You really have to respect the old school mechanics who learned everything by trial and error. That kind of experience is what keeps jobsites running smooth when something unexpected happens.
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aaronsullivan6d ago
Heard that same story from a guy in Beaumont - said the old Link-Belt hands would crack a bleeder with a rag wrapped around it, not the tool. New guys would watch them do it and think they were being careless, but they knew exactly how much heat swell was on that system.
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