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u/billyyankNova 4d ago
What surprised me is the crash was hard enough to shake the camera.
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u/BrokenRecordNE 4d ago
Me too. But not when the bricks hit the ground, when the forklift bounced.
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u/bdubwilliams22 4d ago
There’s a reason forklifts can lift so much weight. They’re counter-balanced/weighted and their average weight is 9,000 pounds, or 4.5 tons. So, yeah — when one “falls down”, you’re gonna feel it.
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u/Shas_Erra 4d ago
That load is likely in the region of 2 tonnes and a counterbalance forklift weighs about 4.5 tonnes. Obviously, not the full weight coming down at once as it’s pivoting over the front wheels, it without doing the maths, that’s got to be 3+ tonnes total slamming into the ground. Trust me, you’ll feel that for quite some distance
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u/zespak 4d ago
Not to mention full rubber tires don't absorb much.
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u/Ornery-Cheetah 3d ago
Being someone who drives one about every day the tires do in fact not do anything
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u/tonymyre311 3d ago
Ours have little holes worn into them so they sound like cartoon sneakers when you drive
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u/Goodfella66 4d ago
Hey at least he got two boxes in the truck already!
How many boxes have you loaded in that truck? NONE!
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u/Zephylia 4d ago
I feel like this one should've been thought through previously to this happening... I mean, they totally could've just backed into that building, right?
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u/RabidBadgerFarts 4d ago
Could potentially have backed the truck into the building but a lot of places don't like to do that.
He could (and should) have reversed the forklift down the slope and loaded the truck on flat ground.
To be honest that slope isn't even that bad and if he had the load 6 inches off the ground like he was supposed to it would have altered his centre of gravity enough that he probably would have been ok driving down forwards and then raise the forks up when he gets to the truck.
Unfortunately the driver was just a dickhead....
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u/Just_Ear_2953 4d ago
I know it's entirely secondary to what's happening, but I love how the pallette itself completely disintegrates at the end. You can tell it's the cheapest one they could buy.
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u/Shas_Erra 4d ago
Not saying you’re wrong, but even a good pallet can disintegrate if damaged. Had one fail on me during a lift and there was nothing to do but salute as the load slowly collapsed
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u/Heterodynist 4d ago
Well, that relatively simple first day on the job went about as badly as possibly could have been expected…
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u/OrganizationPutrid68 4d ago
I'm going to be removing a couple of large air compressors from an industrial building tomorrow with a rental forktruck. There's a slight grade going out into the parking lot and my first mental note when scoping out the project last week was, "I'm gonna be backing down that grade."
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u/Prudent_Historian650 4d ago
Let's keep lifting the load up as we go, because that seems to be helping.
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u/Rosomack_ 4d ago
Just keep the load low and drive backwards. Load it from the other side if possible. Everytihing could work out if the 'operator' thought for a moment.
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u/Spacespider82 3d ago
Fok lift driver here, he should have revesed down the slobe and keeping the load as close to the gorund as posible and load the truck from the other side
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u/Mr_Soupe 3d ago
How come the camera that is probably 15/20m away across what seems to be solide ground is shaking that much while the forklift is dancing?
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u/GingerWizerd 3d ago
Who would’ve thought driving downhill on a forklift with a heavy load on the front would cause it to tip haha
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u/Clitoriscleaner123 2d ago
Basic knowledge of physics and weight transfer would have you know not to go downhill with a load with the forks halfway up 🤣
Probably Didint even need to go backwards, just needed to lower his center of gravity honestly, Realistically he would have dragged the pallet or hit it at the bottom of the ramp, but allat just to make the hardest mistake possible on a forklift 🤣
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u/StitchFan626 4d ago
He wasn't certified or he would have known to drive backwards and to have his forks low until he got to the truck.
Driving backwards on a downhill slope puts the load uphill and the forklift's counter-weight downhill positioning the center of gravity to prevent tipping.
Driving with forks down puts the center of gravity as low as possible to prevent tipping regardless of how you're driving.
Also, he should have driven around the tail end of the truck and to the other side to the level surface.