What is better?Short boom, low angle or long boom

i prefer to get as close to the tree as poss. extend out all the way and have a great angle to make picks. i try not to retrack or extend under a load unless i really have too. you also have to remember that charts are very important, but your weight load is also effected by how stable your crane is. the chart may say safe working load is 3500# at 45 degree angle but if your crane is not perfectly level, your weight is decreased. hope this helps
 
We had a 22101 as well, the problem wasn't overloading it was the fact that they had a small weld on the inside of the turret and a large weld on the outside, because of the different sized welds they worked against each other until they broke causing failure.
 
For sure a factory defect, it would appear that your dealer may have been slow on the fix...? I bought my 2003 22101S in 2008, and at that point it was understood that the problem (factory screwup) was for real and needed/already had immidiate fixing. Again, I did not not mean to infer you overloaded it, just saying what the guy selling mine to me said about the problem. He had over 5 K hours operating the type, and then later ran a big rental fleet of same, along with much larger units of all types.

I have no idea how the big crane manufacturers get word out as to a problem, with aircraft there is an understood time tested way to do it, possibly you being in Canada and them in Texas didn't help either.

I like Canada better then Texas BTW.
 
And they never really admitted they had a problem to us.

We were down in florida on vacation in feb. 2003 and saw a 22101S, when we talked to the operator he told us how it failed while he was operating it.
When we got back we called our dealer, he told us to structurally test it and if it failed he would fix it for free.
 
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