Not surprised to hear of that sort of problem caused by saw dust on grease eating, sliding boom parts. Stick booms are the market leader in my parts, and greasing them like the book says to do isn't done on the trucks owned by the ones that know better.
Maybe it sounds different cuz your other one was stretching till it broke...normally (like carl said) there are stops that are also safetied one way or another to keep it from over revving.
Bucket truck or hydraulic boom truck? Big difference that has been discussed here before a long time ago...buuuuuut, imo the search engine still really sucks here.
Stay single! (Not talking married life either) It would be awesome if it was feasible to have a container or 2 dropped at a designated spot on a location and just place the material in it and leave.
Which makes no ill effect on anything but durability. I believe centri uses aluminum, had them on all our units for the past 15 years...no rust. Engineaire products were complete $hit...hence the reason why bandit quit using them for a long while. I had numerous problems with their setup to...
True about walking the head around the tip too, i work daily with people that dont get that, and also the scenarios change. If they were all pros, you wouldn't have a market steve; they'd all have their own.