I have worked with cowboy crane operators, who on the butt pick set off the alarms and than override the safety to make the lift. Total idiots IMO and I will no longer have them on my job sites, let alone ever contract climb for them again.
Crazy, smart choice not working with them again, I worked with a couple operators I’d never work with again, it’s great when you find someone you feel totally confident putting your trust in and being on the same page.
No need for the apology, I just wanted to be sure that there was no misunderstanding. I don’t want anyone to think that I am advocating for unsafe work practices!
On the other end of the spectrum we had an operator this year who, when good for ~3000lbs, wouldn't let us pick more than 700lbs
Since you seem to have missed the conversation we had when this vid was first posted here-
Next up is another vid which was referenced here. This one is very pertinent to the discussion at hand-
It’s easy to talk, I fully support you in making a YouTube series on how to never ever do anything wrong, ever and only make perfect cuts 100% of the time, it would be enlightening, and amazing to see such perfection exists. I do agree that he made a bad cut left to much hinge on the wrong side on that cut for sure, I’ll try to take a look at the other one later, what would you suggest instead of using a crane as a rigging point in that scenario. I’ve seen so much of this and much worse, I’ve seen the biggest contractors eagerly have their employees use their under maintained booms as rigging points and as make shift cranes all the time, etc. this definitely isn’t an isolated problem.
Without looking at any research I’d go as far to say that should be common sense, and that a vast majority of accidents happen when people aren’t 100% focused, however also no one is perfect.
We should never, never use a crane as a remote rigging point. Dumb ass practice.
Talk? Please. Been there done that with the YouTube channel. It is no secret around here that I hold both Reg and August in very high regard and consider them to be 2 of the very best. As such it was a real honor when they both gave me shutouts in their vids. The only problem was that afterwards my channel quickly became more than I cared to deal with. Answering way too many comments/questions, and feeling like I had to keep making new content to keep my viewers happy just wasn’t my thing. Add the fact that I fucking hate YouTube and it was an easy decision to pull my YouTube channel.
You love to hate it, where do you find the time to watch all these, get back to work and family lol j/k what’s your YouTube account I want to see this perfection now, of course I do I wouldn’t say cranes in general are designed for tree work, and I’m not at all advocating it, I asked you how you would have done it differently and just saying I’ve seen much worse as I’m sure we all have, Here’s a crane flopping caught on video https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/21260/tree-work-takes-another-crane.
I’m sitting here recovering from ankle surgery so I got nothing but time. What’s your fucking excuse buddy?
@rico has been here a long time. You might wanna look back through some of his old posts and see what he's about. Those of us who know him know exactly where he's coming from and what motivates him. The nice thing about this forum is people typically don't call out others opinions until they get to know each other. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, however, if you knew Rico you might have approached it a little less intensely.
Hey Rico, thanks for the link to your videos, some good stuff there!
Agreed Steve, Rico know's his shit.
No excuses, I just don’t know why someone would take the time to create all that and put on YouTube to just take it down, unless you where getting too many negative comments from keyboard warriors telling you to wear your PPE and being judgy like yourself. That’s just my whole point I hope you heal I well and I know I can get into some of those places of wanting to judge outwardly rather than take that inner time we need when healing, but hey thank you for sharing those videos, to be honest I’d much rather watch your videos then all these new guys with the newest arborist fashion, you’re very skilled at the trade and I can understand a little more where you’re coming from now, I used to climb for years just with just a hat too. Solid work you’re definitely far beyond your friend Jake
My point was actually about not kicking the dog, my apologies I can get badly intense at giving others a taste of their own medicine.
