Oops -- fork lift accident
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Oops -- fork lift accident
Anybody here seen the old safety video, "The Color Red"? I had to watch that in school, and it was actually pretty funny. There was a guy who did something like that, only it was a dock, and the whole thing went into the water. There was another one where the guy spun it around on a wet patch, and I mean spun. It was doing like 200rpms, and then fell over. I have seen fork trucks fall down elevator shafts, off of docks, out the backs of trucks(right through the door!), and through wood floors. Usually, if a person is involved, they come out unharmed until the boss gets 'em. People just don't respect these things.
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Oops -- fork lift accident
Respect is right...those forks usually weigh more than most cars, and the heavy duty forks can weigh like 10,000lbs. And the fact that they turn like they do, and how narrow they are, it's actually fairly easy to tip one over. And if you bail out while its falling...SPLAT!!
The other day a guy I work with was unloading 9" drill bits and he rammed the trailer with the tower of the fork, and it knocked the truck driver out of the trailer! MAN was he pissed!
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The other day a guy I work with was unloading 9" drill bits and he rammed the trailer with the tower of the fork, and it knocked the truck driver out of the trailer! MAN was he pissed!
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From: clementsport canada
Oops -- fork lift accident
reminds me of the fork lift that was at the place i used to work... no brakes, eletric.so you had reverse to stop with, and only fast up, no slow, or tilt, to get it to tilt, you had to bump it up fast, then hold the tilt lever..... fun when you had 4 45 gallon drums of fiberglass resin on a pallet.. with nothing holding then on, of together..... glad i quit that place....
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From: Fort Smith
Oops -- fork lift accident
That lift will weigh around 8000lbs. It is about the same size as what we use on our dock, except it has the front guard plate. It will pickup roughly 4000-5000lbs depending on the size of the piece it is picking up. Looking at the pic, I am not really sure how they did that. The bomb is longer on one end, so the weight would have been off to one side. You can see where the blades drug the ground, so I imagine the truck pulled out as the lift came out the back - just didn't make it to the dock 
I have seen a few people ride them out and get dumped. Not very fun... :-X23
I have seen a few people ride them out and get dumped. Not very fun... :-X23
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I had a Staff Sergeant from 8th Army drop off(literaly) a forlift at my shop for repairs and he tipped the truck over.if I had more computer skills I'd post a pic of the recovery op. At the first sign of trouble all the high ranking folks come running. There must of been over 30 officers above the rank of Major out there. All they did was get in the way.
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