Great memories! Just not at that time! Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Alan Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alan Lambert > Lone Star Flyer Club > Hurst, Texas > > On one of my jobs we had a big diesel engine come in on a short bob tail > trailer. It was heavier than what the forklift could lift and still have > (all) wheels on the ground. Ho long chain to pull it out. Had to use fork > lift. Got under it with forks and lifted just off the trailer floor > rearend of forklift came uploosing all steering. Had to set load down several > times to straightenup forklift on way out. At the end I used chains to > puulload out of trailer, but I got the job done that nobody else wanted to do. > Alan > From: Ed <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:05 AM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} fork lift > > > 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! > > > > > > > > >
