Safety First

Post by **< KEVIN >** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:20 pm

you get shot for doing that at my work place, aint that illegal anyway

Post by **Punx0r** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:53 pm

Star

I've heard about this photo loads of times but never seen it until now

It'd only be illegal insofar as it'd be a breach of health and safety laws. Which don't exist in China!

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:04 am

That's quality. We soooo need a bigger forklift at work so we can do that.

Mind, I've seen a forklift lift up something WAY over it's maximum load rating and the only way to stop it tipping forward was to have about half a dozen people leaning off the back to counterbalance it

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:08 am

Having a counterbalance FLT license I know enough about FLTs to realise that the mast on the bottom truck would go high enough to lift that unit to that height anyway. I can't understand why they did it, unless they lifted it even higher after the picture was taken.

shen · Post by **shen** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:54 am

I prefer this as a more amusing pic of unsafe work...

you might not

Quiche81 · Post by **Quiche81** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:10 pm

radddogg wrote:Having a counterbalance FLT license I know enough about FLTs to realise that the mast on the bottom truck would go high enough to lift that unit to that height anyway. I can't understand why they did it, unless they lifted it even higher after the picture was taken.

I thought the same to be honest, most have a second wotsit that's pushed up by the ram
while the forks take the chain dont they ?

Big__P · Post by **Big__P** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:26 pm

are they weapons of mass destruction that bush has been lookin for, for 6 years?

russ220 · Post by **russ220** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:42 pm

lol check this guy:

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:42 pm

radddogg wrote:Having a counterbalance FLT license I know enough about FLTs to realise that the mast on the bottom truck would go high enough to lift that unit to that height anyway. I can't understand why they did it, unless they lifted it even higher after the picture was taken.

The forks here reach to about twice the height of the forklift I think, ie twice the height of the blue section of the truck. I reckon they'd be on their absolute limit if they did go that high, and were probably just short, but their ours is like the little orange one, rather than the yellow one so I guess it may be different.

russ220 · Post by **russ220** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:44 pm

Infact check these out:

http://www.facelift.co.uk/roguesgallery/

Big__P · Post by **Big__P** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:19 pm

some real shockin sites on that link mate

mini_vtec · Post by **mini_vtec** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:07 pm

radddogg wrote:Having a counterbalance FLT license I know enough about FLTs to realise that the mast on the bottom truck would go high enough to lift that unit to that height anyway. I can't understand why they did it, unless they lifted it even higher after the picture was taken.

The mast on the bottom truck would not reach that high,Its only a short duplex mast. Its nearly at full reach look at the carriage its nearly on its stops at the top.

The inner section will not go out that far

sharky · Post by **sharky** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:46 am

mini_vtec wrote:
radddogg wrote:Having a counterbalance FLT license I know enough about FLTs to realise that the mast on the bottom truck would go high enough to lift that unit to that height anyway. I can't understand why they did it, unless they lifted it even higher after the picture was taken.
The mast on the bottom truck would not reach that high,Its only a short duplex mast. Its nearly at full reach look at the carriage its nearly on its stops at the top.

The inner section will not go out that far

i agree, i used to drive a very similar truck with a 2 section mast... would never reach that high.

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:15 am

Heh, just looking at other similar pics and saw this:

http://www.facelift.co.uk/images/rogues ... no-no1.jpg

Post by **Cableguy** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:29 am

Sheaf wrote:Heh, just looking at other similar pics and saw this:

http://www.facelift.co.uk/images/rogues ... no-no1.jpg

Have you really just posted that ? please scroll up slacker

syzsounds · Post by **syzsounds** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:39 am

Half my family are scaffolders, they cant do half the stuff they used to.

The best i saw was my brother in law half pissed from the night before on the apex of my neighbours roof in high winds and rain checking his chimney.

Awesome to watch but my sister went nuts !
He came down and just shrugged " been doing that for 10 years " he said ... Nutter

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:37 am

Cableguy wrote:
Sheaf wrote:Heh, just looking at other similar pics and saw this:

http://www.facelift.co.uk/images/rogues ... no-no1.jpg
Have you really just posted that ? please scroll up slacker

I usually have my firefox window open in a small window when at work, so obviously scroll past some stuff by accident and didn't see it.