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A retired operator named Walt told me to stop watching my load and start watching my outriggers, and it finally clicked on a 60 ton pick in Fort Worth
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the_hugo20d ago
The whole point of watching your outriggers is that it's a leading indicator, not a load chart exercise. Walt was right about where to put your eyes, but the reason isn't that outrigger float tells you more than the LMI. It's that the float reacts before the LMI does, so you get a head start on whatever is about to go wrong. By the time the load moment hits the limit, you're already behind it.
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