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TIL the anti two-block switch is worth fighting for, and I'll die on this hill
Everybody on my crew says the anti two-block switch is a nuisance that trips on every little thing, and a few of the guys even bypass theirs. I think that is a bad call. Back in March I was running a 60 ton on a job in Toledo and the switch caught a payout I did not see coming, stopped the drum cold about 3 feet from the block. Cost me maybe 20 minutes of re-rigging and some griping from the crew. Two weeks later a guy on a different site in the same city bypassed his and nearly pulled the block into the head. Chewed up his rope, wrecked the sheave, and the repair bill came in around $4,800 plus two days of downtime. I will take a false trip any day over that. Weighing the hassle of a nuisance stop against losing a rope and a sheave, the math is not close. What do you all do when a switch is acting fussy, do you adjust it or just deal with it?
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