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Remember when we had to eyeball the load chart on the cab wall?
Back in '05 on a Manitowoc 4100, I'd be squinting at that faded plastic sheet trying to figure radius. Now my phone pulls up the exact digital chart in seconds, which is wild. Anyone else miss the old way even though the new way is way faster?
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the_robert2mo ago
That faded plastic chart on the 888 we ran felt like a rite of passage. You learned to trust your gut after a while, estimating the wind by how the tagline was whipping. The new digital charts are dead accurate and safer, no doubt. But there was something about that process that made you feel connected to the machine. Now it's just pulling a number off a screen. Feels like a piece of the craft is gone.
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david_henderson61mo ago
Went back to the old chart after a digital fail... felt like a caveman rediscovering fire.
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