Ive been around knuckle boom cranes for well over 20 years and as such, have found one thing very odd about them…
You never really know just how much you are lifting do you? Out of all the training we do, I challenge each of the students to “guess” as closely as they can, just how much the product they lift all day, every day weighs. And guess what…all of them get it wrong! That was the most amazing thing and still is to this day.
I happen to come along an item in the Alberta OH & S guidelines, Part 6, code section 68, (68.1) to be exact and I quote:
“An employer must ensure that the operator of the lifting device, the rigger supervised by the operator and the person in charge of a lift are provided with all the information necessary to enable them to readily and accurately determine the weight of the load to be lifted.”
We provide a cost effective solution to this issue, for the for-see able future, many of the crane manufacturers will not put a load indicator on the cranes, they may put warning lights on the display to give a percentage of capacity or how close you are to being a max, but to actually tell you just how much it weighs, let The Crane Safety Group provide your company with the CS10 scale and ask for the optional carry case for it as well.