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  1. chris_girard

    The anatomy of crane picks

    Yup, I'm all done with this thread Stig. This "old guy" is not going to get sucked into a debate on what works and what doesn't work in crane work. Let the younger generation learn the hard way. I'm out.
  2. chris_girard

    The anatomy of crane picks

    At the Crane Climber Workshop down in Penn, where I am an instructor, it is taught to never have the crane operator have to break a pick off, no matter if it's a vert or horiz pick. There's is just no reason for it. With snap cuts , you cannot follow your cut through, watching if your kerf opens...
  3. chris_girard

    The anatomy of crane picks

    Sorry for the late reply. @WoodCtr one thing that I see right off the bat from your photos is your mismatch cuts. Stay away from those in crane work! They needlessly shock load the crane. When we wrote the TCIA BMP for Crane Use in Arboriculture manual, we included the mismatch cuts, but in the...
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