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Interesting day at work, this being just one of the mishaps involving forklifts vs. machines. The offending lift stands gloating above its latest victim.
The poor thing was brand new, and was just being unloaded from the semi.
The other involved a forklift and a 9000 lb. CNC milling machine. one of my babies :(
Forklifts are almost always victors in this these sorts of clashes.
The poor thing was brand new, and was just being unloaded from the semi.
The other involved a forklift and a 9000 lb. CNC milling machine. one of my babies :(
Forklifts are almost always victors in this these sorts of clashes.
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it's not easy to tie somethign down on a lifter's forks, since they never provide loops to fasten something. in most cases it's driving too fast, making sharp curves, lifting stuff too high, and/or uneven weighted payload that creates these accidents.
or someone stupid enough not to fasten the stack of earthware to the pallet.
or someone stupid enough not to fasten the stack of earthware to the pallet.
Actually from what I heard, the lift was still at truck bed level and stationary. The semi driver for some reason, I suppose he felt he could better balance the load, grabbed hold of the side of the thing and pulled. Almost came down on top of him.
This was the first accident of this kind that I've heard of. I've worked at the related business next door for 10 years and the cycle store just had its 40th anniversary.
But perhaps it is as simple as someone else suggested and it only wanted a belly rub.
This was the first accident of this kind that I've heard of. I've worked at the related business next door for 10 years and the cycle store just had its 40th anniversary.
But perhaps it is as simple as someone else suggested and it only wanted a belly rub.
Ouch, poor Polaris Ranger. And a CNC? thats gotta be like 5 or 6 figures worth of damage right there. I've had about a 20% damage rate with anything of mine that has ever been moved by Yellow and FedEx freight and drayage facilities. Nothing like putting a $20k robot into a crate for a conference, and when you get there, the pallet sized crate has two suspicious holes going through it curiously spaced apart the distance of lift forks. Fortunately, in that case, the item inside survived due to durability and the driver not impaling it all the way through. Forklifts are serious business. Pretty much all forklift screw ups I have seen are the result of a combination of bad/no operator training, carelessness, and gross misjudgement of the weight/CG of an object. Like the time I saw a forklift attempt (and fail) to pick up a scissor lift.
I worked at a foundry for almost 3 years and yeah, don't get in the way of anyone or anything transporting molten metal. We cast mostly stainless, (super hot). One guy got it pored down his boot.
One day, the liner in a small furnace cracked and it blew. Went threw the roof. Came back down through the roof of another building and landed on the supervisors desk. No one was injured!
One day, the liner in a small furnace cracked and it blew. Went threw the roof. Came back down through the roof of another building and landed on the supervisors desk. No one was injured!
I used to drive fork lifts occasionally at my previous job, Lots of room. But where I work now, they weave between $30,000 to $90,00 motorcycles. I refuse to touch the things. I won't even move a bike, afraid I may scratch it. I just design and make parts for 'em otherwise I just leave 'em alone.
one of my earlier jobs involved moving stuff/raw materials because the production was moved to somehwere else. between plastic crates on rotten pallettes (I always managed to bind them together with plastic tape so it kept together with the pallette being nothign but a placeholder for the forklifter), plastic barrels (most interestign to tie down securely) and random small machine parts there were also 5meter crates with metal tubings or all sorts. most crates were already opened, or abused greatly, and out of shape. me and the truck driver still managed to secure them on the truck.
another obstacle was the pretty uneven ground, made of concrete tiles and occasional sewage covers on "volcano" bumps. one co-worker managed to throw over two boxes of aluminium housings, of which 30% were destroyed... I told him not to do that, but do they listen?
I have to add that I was thoroughly trained before I got that job, so I knew what I did, and the truck drivers were experienced and helped me a lot with tips and hints. german laws on payload and securing stuff are pretty tough. loader AND driver are responsible for securing the payload so accidents are prevented, and those who create the payload can be held resüponsible, too, if somethign happens inside the sealed container that forces an accident... even though most don't care. but I don't want to end up in jail over it, so. got into some fights with a diplomated engineer of the "I has diploma, I know it all" cathegory over it. XD
said engineer managed to saw himself off by having stuff off the company's archive trashed. turned out it was the tax documentation of the last 5 years he discarded... when I heard it I felt nothign but glee over it. a wee bit later Mr Know-It-All was tamer than a puppy...
another obstacle was the pretty uneven ground, made of concrete tiles and occasional sewage covers on "volcano" bumps. one co-worker managed to throw over two boxes of aluminium housings, of which 30% were destroyed... I told him not to do that, but do they listen?
I have to add that I was thoroughly trained before I got that job, so I knew what I did, and the truck drivers were experienced and helped me a lot with tips and hints. german laws on payload and securing stuff are pretty tough. loader AND driver are responsible for securing the payload so accidents are prevented, and those who create the payload can be held resüponsible, too, if somethign happens inside the sealed container that forces an accident... even though most don't care. but I don't want to end up in jail over it, so. got into some fights with a diplomated engineer of the "I has diploma, I know it all" cathegory over it. XD
said engineer managed to saw himself off by having stuff off the company's archive trashed. turned out it was the tax documentation of the last 5 years he discarded... when I heard it I felt nothign but glee over it. a wee bit later Mr Know-It-All was tamer than a puppy...
Someone mentioned tying it down. It reminded me that stupidity is indeed everwhere. Years ago while walking toward a strip mall that had an HHGregg, saw an employee come out of the store with a large fridge on a handcart. Soon as he tipped it forward to put it on the sidewalk, it tipped forward, doors open and the glass shelves came out and smashed on the ground, just before the rest of the fridge followed. A simple tie down job would have prevented such entertainment.
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