At 0730 one SEABEE Friday morning, I cut a deal with the head "sand crab" ( civilian employee ) that WHEN my crew of about 8 short timers and "ricky recuits" built forty 4' X 4' X 8' shipping containers, we could ALL have the rest of the day off. We quickly commandeered several fork lifts and got busy. UNfortunately, the Rhode Island temps were already in the high 90's, the inch thick WWII asphalt was getting softer by the minute, until, one by one the fork lifts sank to the cinders below. Since they were ALL hard-tired little devils, they were stuck. I convinced another sand crab, in another dept, to lend me a "mule" and one by one dragged the lifts back onto concrete. We were still gone by 0955. History. Outta there. The Beach. Jim Lyle In a message dated 7/1/2012 12:26:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
On my first job out of college, I was assigned to conduct a study of forklift efficiency. Although young and inexperienced, I was thinking out of the box and came up with so many new idea that a USAF Colonel said that he almost got reprimanded for not thinking of these ideas himself since he was responsible for forklifts in the warehousing operation. Ultimately, about 6 or 7 forklifts were transferred to Viet Nam where they were desparately needed. The local USAF base did not need them any more after implementing some new ideas from the greenhorn efficiency expert just hired. Memories are fun -- especially for old geezers like me. Cheers....Ed L. > On the very first hour, of my first double shift, I did not drop the forks low enough and hit the top of a doorway. I dumped a 33 gal fibre drum of ZrO2 slurry on the warehouse floor.... > Don > John Albee wrote: > > I drove forklifts in my early j > > Bs at lumberyard in the early 70's without safety cages. > > Did take the gate off a guy's pickup once. Whoooomph! ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
