Pro tip: The new load charts on the Manitowoc 16000 are a game changer for tight city work.

We were on a job in downtown Seattle last month, and the old charts had us setting up 30 feet back from the building line. The new ones, with the updated wind and load moment data, let us move in to 20 feet. That extra ten feet of reach meant we could place steel for two floors without moving the rig. Has anyone else run into a situation where a simple chart update saved a whole day of work?

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the_seth17d ago

Gotta be honest, that sounds like a paperwork win more than a real site win. Those new charts come with way tighter wind limits from what I've seen. Sure you can get closer, but you're one weather change from a full stop. Watched a crew get burned by that last year, lost half a day waiting for the wind to drop instead of just working from the safe spot. Sometimes the old numbers just build in a better buffer for real world mess.

samf9517d ago

Wait, you lost half a day just waiting on wind, @the_seth?