Cotter Dragline on a manure pit clean out

Found this vid. Scrub, since you've been around draglines a bit, I have a question. Does he pull the scoop most of the way in before picking it up to minimize leverage on the boom? I have to do the same with my hoe, but for slightly different reasons, first being I don't have enough counterweight to pick a full bucket of muck up out of the hole stretched way out. Second, *if* I could pick it up, all the weigh is out

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