Pretty shakey racks, most of the ones I see may have stood up or at least not taken a whole row with it.
Pretty shakey racks, most of the ones I see may have stood up or at least not taken a whole row with it.
I used to work on fork-lifts for a living. We had one it was HUGE. It came from the factory (Hyster) with a 454 and Hooker headers! There were 6 stairs just to get UP TO the cab. Top speed of, oh about 8.
Then, one day while the boss was away (don't all the best stories start out that way) we had pallet jack races (turn it around and ride it like a skatebord). That was fun, then we started thinking about the forklift that was sitting in my stall. It was a 9,000 lb unit but the counter weight and the mast had been removed for service. This brings that 9,000 lb unit to closer to 3800. That thing would lay two looooooon strips of rubber at the slightest provocation. If you stopped hard it'd to a stoppie! But when those rear tires came back down.......BANG!
914Driver wrote: Pretty shakey racks, most of the ones I see may have stood up or at least not taken a whole row with it.
well, I am willing to bet that they were not bolted down too.
As far as laying rubber with a forklift.. I do remember cranking the wheel on the one where I used to work and then flooring it. The wheel on the outside of the curve would drive the forklift "forward" while the one that was more or less stationary (it was pivoting on this wheel) would actually turn backwards. Made for some interesting spots on the pavement.
There is a term for this in the air suspension crowd, but I can't think of what it is.
vibiant wrote: Forklifts can weigh several tons, because of the giant counterweight at the back. Apparently they really do make good substitutes for wrecking balls. [A morbid sense of curiosity would like to see a forklift plow into small car at its highest possible speed.]
The ones we have at work weigh twice their capacity. They weigh about 5500 lbs, and have a max capacity of about 2600ish. I've seen someone try to lift one too many pallets...the back wheel of the lift starts to comes off the ground, it's scary as hell.
I've always wanted to take the two lifts outside and lift a car...
vibiant wrote: Forklifts can weigh several tons, because of the giant counterweight at the back. Apparently they really do make good substitutes for wrecking balls. [A morbid sense of curiosity would like to see a forklift plow into small car at its highest possible speed.]
I've done it, and it's fun! The highest possible speed generally isn't that high, so it doesn't do a ton of damage, but it sure will move the car quite a bit!
Twin_Cam wrote:vibiant wrote: Forklifts can weigh several tons, because of the giant counterweight at the back. Apparently they really do make good substitutes for wrecking balls. [A morbid sense of curiosity would like to see a forklift plow into small car at its highest possible speed.]The ones we have at work weigh twice their capacity. They weigh about 5500 lbs, and have a max capacity of about 2600ish. I've seen someone try to lift one too many pallets...the back wheel of the lift starts to comes off the ground, it's scary as hell. I've always wanted to take the two lifts outside and lift a car...
Where I used to work, ourt fork could lift 3000 pounds. Made changing oil, wheels, and general work under my car VERY easy.
Scariest/funniest thing I ever saw done with a forklift was actually done with 2. The guys at Trump Taj needed to move a open dumpster (think one of those huge truck dropped ones) and it was too big and heavy for one small lift. They used two. One at each end. Each one had it's steering wheels off of the ground as the two guys moved this dumpster about a block down the street.
Forklifts can be fun. Forklift jousting, for example.
This, however, did not look fun. I can't imagine the cleanup effort that would have been required there. I hope nobody got hurt.
Can we enter a forklift in the Zamboni Class at the Challenge? 
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