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Rant: That one time a simple boom extension took all day
Had to set a big AC unit on a roof in Phoenix last summer. The chart said we could reach it, no problem. Got there, rigged up, and the load started swinging like crazy past 80 feet. Took us four hours to figure out the wind was catching the unit's housing like a sail. We had to stop, add extra tag lines, and inch it up slow. Anyone else get fooled by a load chart when the wind picks up?
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tylerr291d ago
See that all the time with plans that look good on paper. My kid's soccer team had a perfect play drawn up, but it fell apart in the rain. Same with following a recipe exactly, then your oven acts up. The chart or the plan never knows about the real world stuff, like wind or a wet field. You always have to leave room for the thing you didn't see coming.
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