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I stopped using a spotter for tight picks and my record is better
Been running a Grove RT530E for 5 years now. Used to swear by having someone on the ground for every blind pick, even small ones. Then we got a job at a refinery in Baton Rouge where the spotter kept giving me bad signals because of glare off the pipes. I told him to step back and used the boom camera and my load chart knowledge to set a 4,800 lb heat exchanger into a cradle with maybe 2 inches to spare. Did it again the next week on a different unit. Now I only use a spotter for crowd control, not for placement. I read the lift, I know my swing radius, and I trust the indicators more than a guy yelling left and right. Anyone else ditch the spotter for routine picks and see their accuracy go up?
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taylor_moore7d ago
...and that's exactly what they want you to think until the day the camera lens gets a smudge or the load shifts weird. What happens on the second pick when you're tired and the sun hits that screen just right? I'm not saying you're wrong, but you're putting a lot of faith in electronics that can lie to you in a split second. How long did it take before you stopped second guessing yourself on the tight ones, or did that confidence just come all at once?
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