The guy who told me to bump the counterweight one more plate on that 180 foot pick was dead wrong
He'd been running a 60 ton for 20 years so I listened, and the rear outriggers sank 2 inches into the mud pad at the Port of Tacoma job because I was already maxed out, so now he says it was the ground and not his call, and I'm wondering if anyone else has had a mentor hand them a number that was just plain off.