Well, my old car is a 1970 Bronco, and it's really heavy and solid (full box tube frame and full roll cage), and it's lifted so it will ride over most small cars.
Now, in a head on with another lifted truck, I'm toast. I don't even have a slip joint in my steering shaft or a 3 point seat belt, so I'll probably be impaled through the chest.
I'll still swear my old car is safer in an average mid speed crash with a car, but I can admit it's more dangerous in many, many other ways.

dumbass walking by that thing wants a huge lift truck on top of him

>> ^raverman:

They should build a safety feature - at least in these rooms with lots of movable dangerous objects.
e.g. something that launches a heavy net from the ceiling to hold everything to the ground.
You can't stop heavy seas, but you can prepare to keep people safe so they aren't flying 20 feet into a table leg.


If you think about it, that idea is really bad.

- the logistics of suspending a net above a very large room - including support pillars (so it'd have to be lots of nets or a huge net that's made around the pillars with holes for the pillars)
- never mind a HEAVY net, and the weight of the net on these sophisticated pieces of "dropping" mechanisms
- you'd have an ugly "heavy" net hanging over a dining room
- which would then drop in a storm trapping furniture AND PEOPLE
- power failure = heavy net falling on people?
- general mishaps with a heavy net suspended above people?
- the cost of getting sued by people getting hit by a heavy net?
- you'd have to have loads of release mechanisms to go at the same time to release said net
- you can't have anything upstanding/on the walls which would catch the net and stop the full release
- you'd have to trigger it whilst very stable otherwise the net would fall incorrectly/warp in the air
- the net would need to be pinioned at various places in the room otherwise things would just slide around under it because there's no tension to keep things held in place even if they got caught

- and if you're referring to the fork lift truck, i'd like to see the net that could stop a fork lift from sliding around a floor which suddenly becomes a wall assuming all the other problems listed were overcome. THAT would be a net hooper and chief brody would have wanted.

Yeah, seriously.
#1: It doesn't take 300 (or whatever he said) men to pull a carriage that one horse can pull.
#2: If you're going to claim that you have the ability to lift trucks, you had better show some fucking evidence and not just say "I can't because I might hurt someone." That's like saying "Oh, I know kung-fu, but I just can't do it in these pants."

And besides, he said they tested his horsepower by taking samples of spinal fluid. How the fuck would that demonstrate how much power you're able to put out?

"The Sidewinder's omni-directional drive system is the greatest innovation in lift truck design in nearly 100 years."

Whoa, fella. The Sidewinder's drive system is pretty cool, but "the greatest innovation in lift truck design in nearly 100 years"? WHAT ABOUT THE BARREL CLAMP? THE CARTON CLAMP?!? THE TRIPLE LIFT ATTACHMENT!?!?

Y'all should be proud of what y'all have accomplished with this drive system, but you need to learn your lift truck history!!