So excited because I got moved to the taller crane on the job yesterday. It's not often I am on a modernized crane. I love the spacious cab, the anti-glare coating on the curved window, and specifically the trolley camera!

Here's a couple of photos of our concrete pickup point. As an example of how difficult our job can be, I am three hundred feet (sorry for the Imperial - craning in N.A. is just like that sigh...) away from picking up 14,000 lb buckets, ten feet from an active roadway. I have to put the empty buckets down beside buses, cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and people, (sometimes rando joggers actually IN the site) and not hit anything. On a typical afternoon I do this up to a hundred times.

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@rightsprung this is cool!

If you don't mind me asking, how does the load moment indicator work? What does it show you?

@jpab

It is!!!

The LMI gives me a readout of my trolley position, hoist gear, weight of the object on the hook, wind speed, and the load moment (weight at distance producing strain in the tower and jib) and the percentage of the limit cutoff.