A 20 ton load finally came down level after I started checking the boom angle before every pick

Anna Robinson · 2026-10-20T00:15:03.699696+00:00

I spent most of last week fighting a swing that kept drifting on a 20 ton pick at a site off Route 9. Turned out I was setting my boom angle by feel instead of reading the indicator, and once I started checking it against the load chart before each lift the drift went away. Three picks in a row came down clean, which felt like a small victory after two days of guessing. Curious if anyone else has a pre-pick habit that saves them like this.

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