You'll often hear me say ... "everyone is an expert in our field."
You know, the home-owner tells you what is right and where to cut, and of course they used to cut trees when they were younger.
But that's nothing, a bigger danger lurks, and with high speed internet some of these "educators" are influencing many in profound ways.
I recently had brought to my attention a thread running elsewhere where the site owner started a thread called
"How to stand up a limb"
referring to craning operations on limbs that aren't vertical.
Below is the series of pics taken and displayed boldy in public full frontal view of how to go about it.
Now this is how I saw it... note the red lines.
Then later in the thread a picture of blocking down.
Now people see this and think it's OK.
Are they qualified let alone certified trainers? Sure you may do things in your day to day work that are questionable but you don't actually make yourself out to be an authority on the subject and offer a "how to" guide.
Would the suitably qualified and experienced crane workers care to elaborate on what they do so the industry is a little wiser.