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Shoutout to the 10,000 hour mark, hit it last month and it snuck up on me
Sat down with my logbook last month after a slow rain day and added up my seat time since I got my ticket in 2006, and it came out to just over 10,000 hours in the cab. That number hit me harder than I expected because when I started out running a little 30 ton carry deck in Shreveport I figured the old heads talking about hours were just bragging. I remember my first mentor, Ray, telling me you don't really know a crane until you've felt it load up in every kind of ground and weather, and at the time I nodded along without getting it. Somewhere around 6,000 hours I noticed I could hear when the boom was about to bounce before it happened, and by 8,000 I was setting trusses without the tag liner saying a word to me. The weird part is the hours don't feel like skill so much as they feel like a memory bank you can pull from when something goes sideways. Now I'm training a kid who's got maybe 400 hours and I keep catching myself saying stuff Ray said to me, which is a whole other trip. Any of you old timers actually keep a running count, or did you quit tracking once the number got embarrassing?
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