This needs to be read. This is an answer I gave to one of the viewers. Slow down. Anticipate the drift BEFORE you pick something up. Train yourself to break everything down in mechanically calculated movements. In other words, figure, in your head, what MECHANICALLY will take place when you pick up. If it looks like something is going to swing one way, nudge your crane that direction, so the pick-up point will not allow leadership from the part being picked up. Change the situation. It's just a try and fail till you get your mind wrapped around your crane. But wait, there's more. The timing for the movement is DIFFERENT on every crane! On some cranes, you operate the control, be it a throttle like control, that has a rheostat built in or different contacts where you control motor control relays, or a joystick or just a button. Some buttons have different speeds, vs, how hard you press the button. You have to learn all of that and add that to your timing on every lift. If the area allows it, and no one is in your path, pick up with a planned swing, in the direction you're going, and make mechanical overpower swing. If the part is being pulled, it won't swing. Then slow down before stopping, which negates the swing.
Thank you for your advice. I work in a steel mill in Pueblo Colorado in an old Cleveland over head Cran and I struggle with that swing. We do have to hooks one has a clam on it and it's always the swing that get me on picking up and dropping it down. Especially the little movements
Slow down. Anticipate the drift BEFORE you pick something up. Train yourself to break everything down in mechanically calculated movements. In other words, figure, in your head, what MECHANICALLY will take place when you pick up. If it looks like something is going to swing one way, nudge your crane that direction, so the pick-up point will not allow leadership from the part being picked up. Change the situation. It's just a try and fail till you get your mind wrapped around your crane. But wait, there's more. The timing for the movement is DIFFERENT on every crane! On some cranes, you operate the control, be it a throttle like control, that has a rheostat built in or different contacts where you control motor control relays, or a joystick or just a button. Some buttons have different speeds, vs, how hard you press the button. You have to learn all of that and add that to your timing on every lift. If the area allows it, and no one is in your path, pick up with a planned swing, in the direction you're going, and make mechanical overpower swing. If the part is being pulled, it won't swing. Then slow down before stopping, which negates the swing.
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This needs to be read. This is an answer I gave to one of the viewers.
Slow down. Anticipate the drift BEFORE you pick something up. Train yourself to break everything down in mechanically calculated movements. In other words, figure, in your head, what MECHANICALLY will take place when you pick up. If it looks like something is going to swing one way, nudge your crane that direction, so the pick-up point will not allow leadership from the part being picked up. Change the situation. It's just a try and fail till you get your mind wrapped around your crane. But wait, there's more. The timing for the movement is DIFFERENT on every crane! On some cranes, you operate the control, be it a throttle like control, that has a rheostat built in or different contacts where you control motor control relays, or a joystick or just a button. Some buttons have different speeds, vs, how hard you press the button. You have to learn all of that and add that to your timing on every lift.
If the area allows it, and no one is in your path, pick up with a planned swing, in the direction you're going, and make mechanical overpower swing. If the part is being pulled, it won't swing. Then slow down before stopping, which negates the swing.
Thank you for your advice. I work in a steel mill in Pueblo Colorado in an old Cleveland over head Cran and I struggle with that swing. We do have to hooks one has a clam on it and it's always the swing that get me on picking up and dropping it down. Especially the little movements
Slow down. Anticipate the drift BEFORE you pick something up. Train yourself to break everything down in mechanically calculated movements. In other words, figure, in your head, what MECHANICALLY will take place when you pick up. If it looks like something is going to swing one way, nudge your crane that direction, so the pick-up point will not allow leadership from the part being picked up. Change the situation. It's just a try and fail till you get your mind wrapped around your crane. But wait, there's more. The timing for the movement is DIFFERENT on every crane! On some cranes, you operate the control, be it a throttle like control, that has a rheostat built in or different contacts where you control motor control relays, or a joystick or just a button. Some buttons have different speeds, vs, how hard you press the button. You have to learn all of that and add that to your timing on every lift.
If the area allows it, and no one is in your path, pick up with a planned swing, in the direction you're going, and make mechanical overpower swing. If the part is being pulled, it won't swing. Then slow down before stopping, which negates the swing.