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Showerthought: the wind sock at the yard in Bakersfield is lying to half the guys out here
I was at our yard off Rosedale last Thursday waiting on a load and just watching guys rig up, and it hit me that most of the crew never even looks at the sock before they boom up. The thing is mounted low, right behind the fuel shed, so when it blows from the north it reads dead calm in the cab. I watched three different operators swing into the same pinch point over by the fence line because they trusted the cab anemometer instead. I get it, the screen gives you a number and numbers feel safe, but that sensor sits on the boom tip and doesn't know a thing about what the load is catching at ground level. A guy I trained with named Ruiz always said check the sock, then check it again after you pick, and I used to roll my eyes at him. Last week a 40 foot sheet of decking spun on me at about 60 feet up, nothing crazy, but it was the sock that told me first. Anyway, curious if any of you have a yard where the sock reads wrong and how you work around it.
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pat95412d ago
the screen gives you a number and numbers feel safe" hits hard. Same thing with my truck GPS, it says 12 minutes and I trust it even when I can see brake lights for a mile. The number doesn't know what's actually happening out there, and neither does that boom tip sensor.
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