I finally hit 10,000 lifts last month and it hit different than I expected

Been running a Grove RT550 for a utility contractor outside Phoenix for about 6 years now. Got a maintenance log app on my phone that tracks every pick, so I know for a fact the 10,000th one was last month. It was just setting a transformer on a pad, nothing special, but when I saw the counter roll over I had to sit in the cab for a minute. Not because I was proud or anything, it just made me think about all the small stuff that adds up. The close calls, the tight spots between live lines, the times I second guessed my rigging and was right to. Ten thousand is a weird number because it sounds huge but it's just Tuesday work. Anyone else ever track their total lifts, or is that just my obsessive side? What number snuck up on you?

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park.wyatt28d ago

Man, did that hit home for me, I track every single pick on my Grove too and 9,000 came and went on a boring night shift, but the number itself made me weirdly sentimental about all the near misses that went smooth enough to keep counting.