Not questioning that, but even with just cheap bolt on forks, i use them a lot, moving fence posts, tree debris, other impliments, and Even the odd pallet. Used them a ton to load up old riding mowers, air compressors, sheet metal, ect, to take to scrap yard.
I use them enough, that last week, while on vacation in E Tenn, I switched my Marketplace location (as one does on vacation, to explorer out of state used junk
, and found a set of SS forks for $100; I started trying to figure out if luggage, kids, wife, and forks would fit in truck for the ride?