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The big 2400 and 7700 series Lima cranes of a bygone era had load cells built into the booms .I think those designs and patents went to Link belt when Lima circled the drain in about the late 70's .

Some time late 70's we were working in a 30 foot deep casson beside a building .The idiot general contractor was going to safety plate over the top of us with 1" plate steel with a whole crew of us down below ,we walked .Iron workers, pipefitters and we electricians . Damned good thing because...

I only did that stuff once when I was younger ,dumber and more energetic .Relamped a radio tower at something like 600 feet .It's a hell of a climb even at under 30 years of age but the view was fantastic .Besides it paid double time with a minimum of 12 hours .I think it took 4-5 hours . The...

That's an inexperianced crane operater doing that .

Well yeah I know in the real world things aren't totally as they should be .However were it I I certainly wouldn't be showing a vid clip with such bravado for the whole world to see using such practices .To each their own on that .

I don't know a thing about those cage things .However in an open basket it's a common practice to use a life line much akin to what tree climbers use to be tied in to with a safety in case the load line fails .I'm not for certain if that's OSHA or not but it was the Canadian standard when I...