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Been using the same hand signal for 'lower slowly' for years and it was wrong
I was on a job in Tacoma last month, working with a new rigger. He kept looking at me funny when I gave the signal... finally he asked if I meant to lower or stop. Turns out my palm down, fingers wiggling thing was way too close to the 'stop' signal. I looked it up in the book that night and he was right. Anyone else ever find out they were giving a bad signal for a long time?
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the_mary15d ago
My old gym had a guy who used a totally wrong spotter signal for years.
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harper_burns5914d ago
Wait, you were wiggling your fingers? That's the part that gets me, I always thought that was for something else entirely. How did nobody correct you before the Tacoma job, that's years of people just going along with it. Makes you wonder what else we're all doing wrong without knowing. Glad the new guy spoke up before something bad happened.
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