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Watched a guy in Tacoma lose a 12 foot load to a gust and it rewired how I read wind
Two summers back I was on a tilt up job off Marine View Drive in Tacoma, just watching another outfit work their side of the site while I waited on a concrete truck. They had a 12 foot wall panel up maybe 40 feet and the load started to sway, and nobody on the ground called it. A gust came off the water and that panel swung like a barn door, smacked the boom, and spun the whole rig just enough to scare everybody. Nobody got hurt, but the guy in the seat rode the brake hard and you could hear the load line singing. Turns out the wind gauge on their rig read 14 mph at the cab, but the water side of the building was catching way more than that. Now I walk my pick path on both sides of a structure before I trust one number on a screen. I also radio the ground guy to watch the load, not just the tag line, because eyes out there feel a gust before any meter does. Any of you work near water and deal with that funnel effect between buildings? Curious how you gauge it.
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