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Ran two pick points on a 40 ft spreader bar last Tuesday and the old way just about cost me a load
So I've been setting trusses at a site in Everett and the rigging crew gave me two options for picking a bundle off the flatbed. The first guy wanted a single point pick with a choker, and the second guy wanted a two leg bridle off the spreader bar. I went with the single point because it's faster and I've done it a hundred times. Halfway up the bundle started to slide and rotate on me and I had to set it back down fast. The two leg bridle would have kept that load level and square the whole way up. I switched to the bridle for the rest of the day and every pick came off clean with no swing and no guessing. Cost me about 20 minutes of re rigging but saved me from dropping about 3 grand of lumber on somebody's lawn. Any of you run into this where the fast way looks fine right up until the load tells you different? Curious what you do when the ground guy and the rigger don't agree on the setup.
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masonm7023d ago
Been there man, single point choker picks look fine right up until the bundle shifts and you're fighting it back down. I had a load of 2x10s spin on me last summer off a single pick and I about ate the tailgate of the truck, that taught me real quick to run a bridle when the load is long. As for the ground guy and the rigger butting heads, I usually just ask the rigger what the load is gonna do in the air and let the ground guy hear it, because most of the time the guy running the hook knows how it's gonna act once it's off the deck. 20 minutes beats 3 grand of lumber sitting in some lady's flower bed every single time.
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