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Unpopular opinion: sometimes the old cranes are more reliable than the new ones
Had a luffing jib go out on me last Tuesday on a Liebherr 130 at a job site near Columbus. The computer system just froze mid-lift and I had to manual override everything to get the load down safe. Meanwhile my buddy runs a 20 year old P&H and says he's never had a single computer failure. Makes me wonder if all these new safety sensors are worth the headache when they fail. Any of you guys had something similar happen with newer vs older rigs?
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umac711mo ago
That bit about the manual override got me. It reminds me of how my stove's digital touch panel stopped working but the old knob on my toaster still turns fine. Seems like anything with a screen gives up before the mechanical stuff does.
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