Drive your car up to the gooseneck and tie the lazy end of traveler up with wire and linemen Take the working end of the traveler and tie that up with a rope, with the other end of the rope tied to the car Clip the well wheel to the jib or tie arm and raise the car to pick up the traveler Once the traveler is loose from the gooseneck, remove it and put it in the car Loop the cable around the well wheel loosen the rope until the traveler hangs from the well wheel drive the car up until you have reached the next position drive and be careful about the wire tied to the lazy end once you have reached the next position put the gooseneck back on the tower drive past the gooseneck tie a rope back around the working end and another around the lazy end of the traveler and wrap the other end of each rope around the tower The ropes control the slack of the traveler Lower the traveler onto the gooseneck lower the car until the traveler hangs from the tower, keep tension on the ropes remove the traveler from the well wheel, transfer it back to the gooseneck now slowly loosen the ropes until the cable is hanging from the gooseneck again now tie off the cable to the tower with wire using linemen as you drive the car down continue to tie off the lazy end with wire when you get to the donkey **** tie a rope around the cable below it and loop the other end around the car slightly pick the cable tie of wire below and above the donkey **** using the linemen secure the cable to the tower with wire so that there is not too much strain on the donkey **** make sure the donkey **** will not hit the car or trolley as they drive past it loosen the rope from the cable and continue to drive the car down drive the car down go home
The traveler is the 480 volt cable that powers a construction hoist. It must be attached to the hoist tower and must be moved up as the tower gets taller. This is called a jump. During a jump we dropped the traveler accidentally, it broke my friends thumb and nearly killed a couple of guys down below. I wrote this to remind myself how to jump the traveler properly.