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Heavy equipment operator training school news video on crane accident interview on safety from the Oklahoma College of Construction
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Thats because your a retard
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What a FREAKIN joke IUOE is where you get training i wouldnt want anyone with 3-6 weeks of school to operate a crane that is an accident waiting to happen...ive spent the last 5 years of rigging,oiling and just now operating a boom truck
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Do they teach ya to eat cheese in this course? I smella rat!
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All you people complaining about a 6 week course... where do you expect someone to get formal training? I know for a fact that a lot of you old timers don't even want to teach the younger generation due to job security or for other selfish reasons. Sure, you may have the hours but was it 5000 hours of bad habits? Can you do it all or was you just stuck at a construction site slinging the same stuff for years?
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6 weeks (3 considering 50% of the time is classroom instruction) is a joke. I wonder what they charge for this class. You may learn how to hoist up and down, but get out in the field after 120 hours in the seat and your outrigger is going through a drainage ring. It takes years of practical training and on the job experience before you could think of being a responsible crane operator. The Operating Engineers apprenticeship training is the closest one can get to proper training.
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Funny thing is after I posted my last comment 11 months ago. An electrician comes up to me at a job site where I am operating my boom truck. He starts telling me about the crane operator school he is planning to start with a friend. This electrician has NO experience with a crane. He went to some school in california for 6 weeks so now he thinks he is qualified to train others. I had to walk away to keep from laughing in his face. I still laugh about it.
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Most apprenticships take 4 years to complete. The IUOE will give you more knowledge and skill that employers and thier insurance companies are looking for. You work while you learn, get paid good money plus benefits. If you are a greenhorn, six weeks isn't even going to get you close enough to even understand the CCO test yet alone pass it. Not every job has a brand new rt working at 10->20 % of it's capacity. Lets keep the shiny side up and get propper training.
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these places are why the are so many crane failures today you cant teach operating in a class it comes from years of doing it
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My dad ran cranes starting in the late 50's early 60's. In the 80's he went into business for himself with a boom truck. I would work with him when he needed help. In '98 I went to work for him full time, but he didn't let me operate the crane for two years. My point is that it takes more then 6 weeks to know what you are doing.
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"A two crane pick. It's a two crane lift. Involving two cranes." He is a smart cookie.