Potty lift showed up Friday. While unloading, I raised the jib while the roll back truck had the lift at an angle causing the tracks to lock and not allowing me to unload. (I did the one thing you should not do while unloading-Pilot Error)This was due to the basket not remaining level while the jib was being raised with machine on a steep slope. 45 min with tech support and they were able to talk me through the process on manually resetting the basket to level. If I wasn't so stressed out, I would have been able to do this in a quarter of the time. Up equip definitely earned my respect that day!
Of course two units were being delivered to the same address and I was the first to unload. It held the semi truck up and the roll off truck up for an extra hour.
After all the shenanigans, I trailored it straight to the job site and banged out a 2 hour job. It took half the time compared to climbing the trees.
So far I'm impressed!
I'll try to get some pictures Monday at work.
Yeah, that whole learning curve with new equipment can be stressful for sure. I know with my Omme’s there’s a lot of little things you need to remember and become familiar with. Just stupid little stuff in hindsight, but if you don’t know, you don’t know. I still forget to hit the knob/lever to switch from transport to basket probably 50% of the time and have to have the ground guy do it for me.
It’s amazing how proficient I’ve become at leveling them compared to the beginning too. I remember times on crazy slopes or whatever that used to get me all stressed that now are like tying my boots.
Congratulations on the new machine(s)! It’s a really big step forward that will surely pay off for you guys.