Overheard a foreman say load charts are 'just guidelines' at a job site in Newark yesterday

I was grabbing coffee near the trailer and heard this older guy telling a new operator that the load chart numbers are more like suggestions. Said he's been running cranes for 20 years and never had an issue eyeballing it. I stood there for a second and felt my stomach drop. That kind of thinking gets people hurt or worse. Has anyone else run into older guys on site who totally ignore the charts?

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robinson.quinn25d ago

Did you say anything to him right there? I had a similar situation a few years back with a guy who swore his gut was better than the chart. I just asked him if his gut was going to explain to a widow why her husband was dead. He didn't talk to me for a week, but I saw him checking the charts after that.

the_nancy25d ago

Pretty common around the Great Lakes region too.