forklift pic

Keltic · Apr 18, 2004

Hi, can anyone direct me to a pic I saw some time ago? A forklift on the forks of another lifting some containers in a mill or factory. I was on a forklift course last week and I was telling the guys and they won't believe me *L* Thanks in advance. FRED

DocHeb · Apr 18, 2004

I can't cut and paste the url's with this touchscreen computer I'm using, but the two threads are in the Safety forum:

Dummy and the man lift

Hi lift, no brains

AndyM · Apr 18, 2004

Is this the one?

AndyM · Apr 18, 2004

Of course, this was an interesting one also...

DannyD · Apr 18, 2004

OKKKKKKKK. I drove forklifts for 18 years of and on, 12 solidly on the saddle, but this is just plain down stupid. Is that a human on the first lift between the mast and the second lift..............for some reason I kept typing life instead of lift..............

DocHeb · Apr 18, 2004

Yeah, his job is to hold the smaller forklift on the larger's forks.

Inspector507 · Apr 18, 2004

He was the "ballast" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mark_in_NH · Apr 18, 2004

If you look carefully, there are two men standing on the smaller orange fork lift.

MossRoad · Apr 18, 2004

How could Darwin have been correct if people like this are seeming to reproduce?

I have serious issues to deal with now... in the fetal position... with my blanky... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

California · Apr 19, 2004

That second picture triggered a flashback from 30+ years ago when I worked in construction.

My first day with a contractor who did insurance repairs I was 30 feet up in the rafters of an old haybarn that had been lifted and slightly distorted by a tornado. A dual stage forklift was pushing up the joist I was standing on, using a 4 x 4 up from the top of the first stage of its mast, while its second stage independently was used to push up a rafter above my head using another 4 x 4. I was supposed to re-nail everything when it was aligned properly.

I looked down to see why the foreman operating this unfamiliar rented forklift was ignoring my hand signals. I discovered he was busy sipping from a hip flask due to the extreme cold. I should have quit on the spot.