From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Hurst, Texas On one of my jobs we had a big diesel engine come in on a short bob tail trailer. It was heavier than what the forklift could lift and still have (all) wheels on the ground. Ho long chain to pull it out. Had to use fork lift. Got under it with forks and lifted just off the trailer floor rearend of forklift came uploosing all steering. Had to set load down several times to straightenup forklift on way out. At the end I used chains to puulload out of trailer, but I got the job done that nobody else wanted to do. Alan From: Ed <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:05 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} fork lift
On my first job out of college, I was assigned to conduct a study of forklift efficiency. Although young and inexperienced, I was thinking out of the box and came up with so many new idea that a USAF Colonel said that he almost got reprimanded for not thinking of these ideas himself since he was responsible for forklifts in the warehousing operation. Ultimately, about 6 or 7 forklifts were transferred to Viet Nam where they were desparately needed. The local USAF base did not need them any more after implementing some new ideas from the greenhorn efficiency expert just hired. Memories are fun -- especially for old geezers like me. Cheers....Ed L. > On the very first hour, of my first double shift, I did not drop the forks > low enough and hit the top of a doorway. I dumped a 33 gal fibre drum of ZrO2 > slurry on the warehouse floor.... > Don > John Albee wrote: > > I drove forklifts in my early j > > Bs at lumberyard in the early 70's without safety cages. > > Did take the gate off a guy's pickup once. Whoooomph!
