In some professional gym equipment they use a rubber ball or disk threaded onto the rope before the thimble that prevents the shackle being smashed into the pulley.
We have spent a lot of money with different individuals sucking the shackle into the fiberglass jib ( we call it a Horse Head) and we are struggling to find a solution. It would be easy to blame the Lineman, but since this problem has been repeated with a high frequency I am reluctant to call it Human Error. This kind of Error is almost predictable so there should be a simple solution to take the human element out of this incident. Does anyone else have experience with this, what did your company do to prevent it from re-occurring?
In some professional gym equipment they use a rubber ball or disk threaded onto the rope before the thimble that prevents the shackle being smashed into the pulley.
Portable defibrillators were first invented to save the lives of linemen. Where's yours?
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Yup, happens quite often. Solution = make sure you can see the clevis when you take up the load line to stow it.
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It happens everywhere, if it's a rear mount linetruck weld an eye on the front bumper for the winch line to be hooked to either with a clevis or a sling, you may have to leave one of the stages run out a little bit so it keeps the tip of the boom straight over the front bumper, we seemed to have it happening mostly with the operator try to keep the hook up extra high above the windshield during travel.
Quite expensive repairs too, aren’t they? Really easy to happen when you go from running rbd’s with boom tip winches, to what I call crane style , where the winch drum is mounted on top of the turrent. Contractors around here tend to fire guys that do that kind of damage.