Hot take: My rigging book from 2005 is still more useful than some new apps I tried

Last week I was talking to a young operator on a job site near Dallas. He was showing me an app that calculates load angles and weights. It looked cool but it kept glitching on him. I pulled out my old spiral notebook with hand drawn diagrams and formulas I learned from a vet back in 2005. He laughed at first but then asked to copy a page. Made me realize that the basics we learn from old timers still beat fancy tech sometimes. Has anyone else had old school methods save them on a job?

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the_anthony2d ago

And here I was thinking my old grease-stained notebook was just a fire hazard, not a teaching tool. App probably would have been fine if it didn't try to sell me a premium subscription every time it crashed. Guess the grid paper still has more reliability than some silicon.

paulw532d ago

Yeah, same here. My old notebook has saved my butt more times than any app.

shane_park922d ago

Gotta say though, grid paper isn't actually that common in notebooks. Most of them use lined or blank pages. Grid paper's more of a specific thing like for engineering or math notes. But I get what you mean. The point is just having something physical that works every time. No battery, no updates, no ads popping up when you're trying to jot down a thought. That's really the key difference.