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What story?

Just like I thought.... He was dicking with the outriggers before he folded up. Hate to say this but what a dumbass. Guess his lie of the outrigger breaking finally came out.

Gotta agree with ya pink panther.  If ya had the riggers out to do the job, then there's absolutely no reason to put them away before the booms down.  If they were not out during the job, the guy should never get a truck to operate again cause it looks to me that the whole job is straight off the cab.

I've watched this video no less than 15 times. I still cannot grasp why the operator would pull his outriggers in to adjust them with the boom in the air ? We are missing a part of this story, hopefully someone will fill in the missing blanks ?

He probably sucked a sponge, got sidetracked by someone talking to him or some hot girl walking down the street and forgot what he was doing. But in order to do that, he had to go to the panel and switch it from remote. I am not sure unless he never had them out to begin with and forgot about it and swung that way. Either way, very costly mistake but nobody was injured. His sore knee he sustained does not count.

because that lever puller is a total dumbass he can't be called an operator

But Dipstick, what have you against finish workers? I mean people from Finland. I like concreteworkers from Finland - they allways carry out and conect my hoses whithout drivel - a Swedish concreteworker does never do that - they prefer to send an sms to his girlfriend and wait, or just give a shit until i have hauld and conected all the 150m (450 ft or more) hose before the first mixertruck arrive at the pouringtime. I prefer concreteworkers from any country but not Sweden - Swedish concreteworkers ordered a concretepumper but i supose they want a slave that they can degrade. Not all of the Swedish concreteworkers is that lazy to pull out and conect all the hoses - but all their nagging about how heavy work they have.....give me a break. They don´t pull hoses every day - emty or full of concrete - i do it 14 - 16 hours 5 - 6 days a week and finish my day whith the jackhammer in the hopper every day in the warm summertime, until i finally (hungry sins 8 hours ago) can come home and get food anywhat my wife prepared for me. But of course, i´m not a fullblood Swedish guy - my mother comes from Finland.

Like sand through an hourglass....these are the Days of our Lives....what a soap opeera we have here.