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I have...when I was in college and working in a Frito-Lay warehouse. Mmmm....potato chips....
I have...when I was in college and working in a Frito-Lay warehouse. Mmmm....potato chips....
Anyone here ever operate a forklift?
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Yep. off an on for about 5 years @ my grandmother's warehouse. I destroyed so much stuff it wasnt funny, but eventually i could pick up a dime with my forks. 
Yeah I did , when I worked at MIT, I wasn't suppose but they never stopped me before and some one had to do it .
Driving a fork lift down Mass ave in Cambridge at 2 AM and the Cops just waved to me. didn't stop to ask why ?
Driving a fork lift down Mass ave in Cambridge at 2 AM and the Cops just waved to me. didn't stop to ask why ?
...also had my foot run over by the rear wheel & 5k# counterweight. 
I never did become an expert. I dumped several pallets of Rold Gold pretzels from about 15 feet in the air. ****ing pretzels.TN said:Yep. off an on for about 5 years @ my grandmother's warehouse. I destroyed so much stuff it wasnt funny, but eventually i could pick up a dime with my forks.
Yep. Moved a lot of plants at the nursery.
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You probably built the thing out of spare bike parts and duct tape.
and How many of us rode on the blades like your not suppose to.
Oh, these handtrucks were MUCH more fun to fly around on, especially on the nice smooth warehouse floor!!! ZZZZZOOOOOOOMMM!!!!splat said:
i did when I was a inventory clerk
I used to drive the big 4x4 construction forklifts when I was 18:devil:
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I have driven boom lifts, fork lifts, and plenty of tractors with forks on the loader. I learned to drive a fork lift at about 6 years old. Logged lots of time in the lumber yard and grain elevator, when we built a rail spur. I drove one Thanksgiving week, for the first time in years, while we were doing inventory.
*new question - who has tipped one over forward??? I have one with a bundle of lumber, and one with a bundle of 16 ft cross ties. Cross ties are frikkin' heavy. Neither time did I have a belt on. It hurt, and I am lucky to be alive probably.
*new question - who has tipped one over forward??? I have one with a bundle of lumber, and one with a bundle of 16 ft cross ties. Cross ties are frikkin' heavy. Neither time did I have a belt on. It hurt, and I am lucky to be alive probably.
60% here.
you have to be trained to operate one? who'd of thunk it?
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70% - I knew to pick the high numbers on accidents and fines. I also don't buy that the average weight is 8,000 lbs. There are an awful lot of little warehouse lifts around.
I dunno I've been in a lot of warehouses & the ones with the 5k# counterweights are all over the place & they prolly come in around 8k#.loco said:
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Yeah - you are probably right.TN said:
I learned how to drive a forklift and a scissor lift doing commercial drywall when I was 17.
I really got my chops when I started doing event production (staging and lighting). We were the contract production house for the USS Hornet Museum, so I re-learned how to drive a forklift on an aircraft carrier running staging and 150kw generators on the flight deck and the hangar bays.
Really cool: Holding a huge stack of staging decks on the forks while being hoisted up to the flight deck by the forward elevator. A 50'x70' hydraulic elevator that goes up 35' in 1.8 seconds.
I've also ran boom lifts up to 120'.
There is something about being in a metal basket 10 stories off the concrete that makes your balls crawl up into your chest.
I really got my chops when I started doing event production (staging and lighting). We were the contract production house for the USS Hornet Museum, so I re-learned how to drive a forklift on an aircraft carrier running staging and 150kw generators on the flight deck and the hangar bays.
Really cool: Holding a huge stack of staging decks on the forks while being hoisted up to the flight deck by the forward elevator. A 50'x70' hydraulic elevator that goes up 35' in 1.8 seconds.
I've also ran boom lifts up to 120'.
There is something about being in a metal basket 10 stories off the concrete that makes your balls crawl up into your chest.
Occasionally.
As for riding, I was installing conveyor equipment and needed to drill a hole in an I-beam way up in a warehouse. I got on the forks and my buddy damn near jammed me through the ceiling...
As for riding, I was installing conveyor equipment and needed to drill a hole in an I-beam way up in a warehouse. I got on the forks and my buddy damn near jammed me through the ceiling...
I have driven fork lifts, cherry pickers, backhoes, bull dozers, and the coup de resistance, a street sweeper, not one of those pathetic small 3 wheeled jobs, a large International with Elgin sweeper body on it. My job for two years was as a street sweeper operator at the local speedway.
If you count the Bobcat extention, yes. Damn fun to toss things with that, but I wasn't too shabby driving it either.
One of these:
I love this pic
Used to drive a 4x4 rough terrain (RT) in the Seabees. It was fun!
im taking a fork lift class in january and i was wondering how well operaters get paid?
Numerous times....
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99033&highlight=forklift
The idiots I used to work with did this...
The idiots I used to work with did this...
10-16 ishface said:
http://www.shenvalleymasonry.com/Fork Lift Front Royal.jpg
i drove this thing around for awhile on a job, never trained. First load took forever (pick out of truck to rooftop), driving them is a little easier.
The little ones are way easier to get a handle on, plus you're not dealing with too much wieght or consequence. Like anything once you know the controls and what the machine can do, if you have common sense you probably won't kill anyone or yourself.
i drove this thing around for awhile on a job, never trained. First load took forever (pick out of truck to rooftop), driving them is a little easier.
The little ones are way easier to get a handle on, plus you're not dealing with too much wieght or consequence. Like anything once you know the controls and what the machine can do, if you have common sense you probably won't kill anyone or yourself.
I think most of us would be hardpressed to outdo my bro.... he drove one of these haul trucks at a mine for one summer as part of his mining engineering work term
I actually have a license to operate on e. I even safety trained operators at my last job.
Forklifts are how i've made my living for the last 11 years. I'm a product support rep for Toyota Industial Equipment,and know them inside out.
so then you know how well they do donuts in the snow??GravityFreakTJ said: