BX Using CA Pallet Forks & Real World Lift Capacity

[4570Man]

A safer method to unload pallets: Lift pallet from the truck bed just one inch, maintaining the tractor motionless, brakes applied. Have an assistant very cautiously drive the truck out from under the load, then move the truck out of the driveway. Maintaining the tractor motionless, slowly lower the FEL and load to minimum ground clearance height, release brakes, then transport. You would have had driveway space to maneuver the tractor and for the ROPS to be safely erected. ((However, from summed [safe] operating experience of having owned three tractors, I would have tossed the pavers from the truck bed to the ground, then loaded the pavers on pallets. )) Lowering the Backhoe bucket, so bucket is level with, or lower than rear axle height improves stability. Picture #6.

Not really. Backing up on a smooth surface such as a driveway is pretty harmless. Even then there's only a very small margin of space where the truck wouldn't catch a tip over. The most hazardous point is when you start to lower the load. The safest thing you can do is add adequate ballast and never stop lowering until it's on the ground. Stopping the load suddenly is the most likely chance for a tip over. Since he had the backhoe attached he probably had adequate ballast.

 

[nikerret]

Did you blur everything out but the tractor manually in photoshop?

I blurred it all, in photobucket.

 

[Dropsix]

I blurred it all, in photobucket.

May I ask why? I've just never seen it. I'll blur a license plate but that's about it.