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Back in the day when I had a bucket truck (or EVERY time I rent an aerial device) I always wear my climbing belt rather than a fall harness, and I always take a rope & other goodies with me. Yes, I know. Not very protective if ejected, but a hell of a lot better for decending from a broken lift. Furthermore, I can always bail out of the bucket into a tree for places where the bucket doesn't work.Damn near every time I rent an aerial the damn thing strands me. It doesn't seem to matter where I rent it, either. I just have bad luck.By the way: the last time I borrowed/rented a truck, I got to test how well the emergency check valves on the 2nd boom worked. It seems that the owner installed a "screw on" hydraulic fitting into the middle of a damaged hydraulic line. It popped off and I was stuck at about 45' up. I descended, figured out what was wrong, and then reinstalled the fitting correctly.
Back in the day when I had a bucket truck (or EVERY time I rent an aerial device) I always wear my climbing belt rather than a fall harness, and I always take a rope & other goodies with me. Yes, I know. Not very protective if ejected, but a hell of a lot better for decending from a broken lift. Furthermore, I can always bail out of the bucket into a tree for places where the bucket doesn't work.
Damn near every time I rent an aerial the damn thing strands me. It doesn't seem to matter where I rent it, either. I just have bad luck.
By the way: the last time I borrowed/rented a truck, I got to test how well the emergency check valves on the 2nd boom worked.
It seems that the owner installed a "screw on" hydraulic fitting into the middle of a damaged hydraulic line. It popped off and I was stuck at about 45' up. I descended, figured out what was wrong, and then reinstalled the fitting correctly.
