Spent 6 hours on a load chart mismatch and it was a dumb decimal

Had a Liebherr LTM 1090 job out in Odessa last Tuesday and the pick was 12,400 lbs but my chart kept saying the radius was fine when it clearly wasnt. Turns out the site drawings had the dimensions in feet and I was reading them as meters, no joke. Burned half a day on a problem that took 20 minutes to fix once I did the math right. Anyone else ever waste a whole shift over a unit conversion on a lift plan?

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amyh1226d ago

Makes me wanna double check every damn number now.

linda_reed26d ago

Ngl @amyh12, every time I see one of these posts I remember the time I got a utility bill that said I used 4,000 gallons of water in a month. I live alone and was gone for two weeks, so I called them ready to fight. Turns out the meter reader just typed the numbers in backwards, but I spent a whole hour on hold before they figured it out. Now I check my bills like a detective looking for clues. Numbers are just too easy to mess up, especially when someone else is typing them in.