Hit 10,000 hours on my Grove TMS9000 and it hit me different

I was looking at my logbook last week and noticed I passed 10,000 hours on my crane. That number just kinda sat there. I mean 10,000 is a lot of time behind the sticks. Most of that was in tight urban jobs downtown Atlanta where you gotta swing blind over buildings. I started thinking about all the close calls I had early on and how smooth things feel now. There is a confidence that only comes from repeating the same pick and swing thousands of times. Has anyone else hit a hour milestone that made you stop and think about how far you came? I am curious what number did it for other guys out here.

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paulperez20d ago

You ever think about how many of those 10,000 hours were spent just waiting on something? Like waiting for the concrete truck, waiting for the ironworkers to finish rigging, waiting on the safety guy to finish his paperwork. I bet out of those 10,000, a solid 2,000 of em were just sitting there burning diesel with nothing to pick. What got me thinking is how many of those hours were actual stick time versus just being on site.

amyr5719d ago

Is it really that deep though? I get the point about waiting around but come on, 2000 hours out of 10000? That's a lot of wasted time. Are you seriously counting the time you sit in the cab waiting as part of your hours? Seems like people just like to inflate the numbers or something. Most guys I know would kill to get paid just to sit there and let the meter run. And even if you are waiting, you're still on site and ready to go, that counts for something in my book.