Reverse luffing vs flat top finally clicked for me on a Philly job

I spent 12 years running flat tops and always figured reverse luffers were just for tight sites. Last month on a high-rise in Philly, another operator let me run his luffer for an afternoon and the way the load stays put when you raise the boom just makes more sense for precise picks over obstacles. Has anyone else made the switch and found it easier on their rigging, or is it just a preference thing?

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angela_dixon1mo ago

That load control is the thing nobody talks about. The luffer's geometry keeps the radius tighter through the whole cycle, so you're not fighting drift on the tag line as much. I ran one on a hospital addition where we had to set chillers over a live ER entrance, and the lack of boom whip when the wind gusted was the real difference. Riggers stopped asking for a second tag line once they saw how little the load moved.