Posted by PJH on March 10, 2011 at 06:56:14 from (50.40.175.34):
In Reply to: Is this safe? posted by GeneMO on March 09, 2011 at 15:44:37:
I've worked on highway lighting fixtures that were just tiptoe too high for a 40' knuckle boom truck. If I stretched, I could barely reach the fixture. The truck was controlled from the ground, boom was jerky - had to keep your knees bent to keep from feeling like you were going to get flipped out of the bucket. It was equipped with pilot operated check valves to keep the boom up if something failed, so I worried more about getting down in a failure, but my greatest fear was that some fool would run into the truck while it was fully extended. It would be like riding a flyswatter.
My point - the guy in the bucket has to trust the operator, and if the operator hasn't proved himself - the bucket guy will balk at getting in the bucket. I have refused to work with some operators, sometimes because I did not know them, sometimes because I'd seen them in action.
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