It may be an insurance industry requirement too. Kid falls out and sues, insurance may say sorry not covered.
Booms raised on bucket trucks when not used ?
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20 years as an arborist-a few reasons we left the booms up. Like said, good place to store stuff to keep from getting stolen, usually had my saw or my stick saw in the bucket. Drift testing. Or sheer laziness, the locking system on a lot of bucket trucks consists of raising the boom, then the box, and sliding pins through the doors, dropping the box back down would make the pins inaccessible. Leaving the boom up meant you didn’t have to raise it again the next morning when unpinning.
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I drove by one of those lift rental places that had probably 100 of those things sticking up in the air while the weather guy on the radio was talking about how bad the storm was going to get, hail, extreme wind, tornadoes, etc.
I would have liked to have a camera set up to see what ended up happening.
Imagine the dude getting called in to work to bring all 100 of those things down for a storm.Last edited: Jul 27, 2020
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I texted a freind that's a retired lineman
He texted back it prevents moisture build up in the boom.Last edited: Jul 27, 2020
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My brother did tree work for Asplundh for years. They do it to keep chainsaws from getting stolen.
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