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Lattice boom vs hydraulic - night and day difference
Had a 300 ton lattice crawler on a bridge job in Toledo a few months back. Load charts were a pain. Switched to a 275 ton hydraulic with a jib. Setup time dropped from 3 hours to 45 minutes. Anyone else find hydraulics way easier to work with on tight urban sites?
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elizabethhayes17d ago
Yeah the time savings on hydraulic setup makes a huge difference when you’re fighting city traffic and tight schedules.
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Did you run into any issues with the hydraulic's reach versus the lattice on that bridge job? I mean, I've heard guys say hydraulics can struggle more with picking over obstacles or getting the same boom angle in tight spots. Was it a straight pick situation for you, or did you have to do some tricky stuff where the lattice might have actually been better?
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