A big housing project, closely packed small duplexes, going to be 30 or more of them. The contractor has it in his head that framing the roofs on the ground and then lifting them will be quicker and easier than lifting them piecemeal. From my perspective, and hour meter, it didn't save any time over what it would have taken me to set them 1 or 2 at a time, but what do I know? I supplied the rigging, but let them guesstimate where to rig it. I picked it up and then asked "you sure, you like it?" My way of absolving myself from blame if it fell apart, though of course a good lawyer would have a different attitude. I made sure ( I had to tell them several times, DON'T GET UNDER IT) that if it did pull apart no one got hurt. Even then, one guy, while it was still 3 or 4' above the plate line, gets up on a step ladder and rests his arms on the top plate, no frigging common sense. I didn't really feel it was going to collapse of course, but why take the chance and get under it? It went well so now I'll be getting the call to do them all I suppose.
When I made a trip there previous just to eyeball it, I made a big deal about the distance from my center of rotation with the head guy and he nodded knowingly, then when I showed up they had framed the garage walls (green) forcing me to set up further back. No big deal as it didn't weigh 7,000 pounds like he estimated, but 2900, but I told him next time (I think they are all identical) get me in and out before the garage goes up. I just noticed, the same dumb a** who had his arms on the plate, was the same guy who popprd up at the last second with the snow shovel, just as I grabbed this pic, he got yelled at twice.
When I made a trip there previous just to eyeball it, I made a big deal about the distance from my center of rotation with the head guy and he nodded knowingly, then when I showed up they had framed the garage walls (green) forcing me to set up further back. No big deal as it didn't weigh 7,000 pounds like he estimated, but 2900, but I told him next time (I think they are all identical) get me in and out before the garage goes up. I just noticed, the same dumb a** who had his arms on the plate, was the same guy who popprd up at the last second with the snow shovel, just as I grabbed this pic, he got yelled at twice.