Wow, anyone need a forklift able to lift 40000lb?

Let's *discuss.

Oh, and I love *bananas.

I think they wanted it in the water.

Whomever loaded that forklift is either a moron, and parked it to one side of the barge, or the load shifted before this video, and the barge operator is a moron for not securing the forklift with some straps, as well as centering the barge crane.

I still can see the REACH FORKLIFT.

http://www.ur.com/files/corp/catalog/44-55_forklift.pdf

>> ^shogunkai:

Am I the only one who feels sick when people use that video stabilization software?


Yep, me too. I think it's something that youtube is starting to do automatically - slightly cropping the outside of the video to give it room to stabilize.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9h_VWm_n4Y

How can he even see what he's doing is my question. Does that thing have cameras or something? I don't see how the guy can see that quarter on the blade of the forklift with how that front end is set up in relation to him.

Last thing the guy filming said before cursing translates to "I know, he is accustomed to" (I can only guess that what's he's accustomed to is not turning with a forklift)

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^Enzoblue:
What makes this good is that they did everything right and it still went wrong. Shit happens.

Nope, he should have lowered the container immediatly after clearing the two towers, and before turning. There is no way that thing was made for driving or turning with the container that high. And that guy standing behind the lifter is driving me nuts, What the fuck was he doing there?, he provides a perfect distraction for the operator.

Forklift 101.

a reach forklift parked ten feet to the left could easily have made this possible, amongst other ways.

Sheesh.

http://www.rollshighreach.com/fork/p7hg_img_1/fullsize/Skytrak10054_Silo_fs.jpg

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Thanks Boise.

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Sorry mint
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Sorry mint
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Economics is "the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses."

Every dollar urinated away on fanciful bull$h1t (per the info in marinara's post, the Golfer Administration ramrodded this through with zero oversight) like this is a dollar that could've landed in someone's paycheck (where it would be taxed) and circulated to buy goods people actually want and use (and taxed again).

That's also another dollar that will never be invested freely by peeps who are a lot more cautious with their dollars than thugverment. And these 'lone' dollars we're discussing are far from alone. Each one also costs many more dollars because government bureaucracies filled with government workers have to move them around.

No one is 'against' solar. they want "viable" (meaning cost-effective) solar systems. And people wanted to fly before the Wright Brothers built a plane in their garage using zero tax dollars.

If I believed that the recovery act went to paying wages, I would support it. But I really doubt it. My own personal idea is for the government to subsidize the minimum wage. It would add $5 in salary to each employee making less than $10. Do the math. for 1 million people, it would cost 10 Billion per year.

It seems like such an easy solution, doesn't it? Just pay people a living wage! Except living wages don't come from government, they come from businesses who have to deal with market demand. The American workforce is roughly 100 million. So with your 10 billion in what is essentially workfare (favoring one burger flipper over another) you've given a whopping 1 percent of low-wage earners a larger paycheck...for doing nothing!

Not only will this money be taxed at a higher rate, prices will rise, just like they do every time some vote-buying slug in office suggests raising the minimum wage. And employers will hire less people at $10 than $5. Supply and demand. Only in liberaland does a forklift driver earn the same as a neurosurgeon, because anything less wouldn't be "fair". It's also why double digit inflation is the norm across Europe.

In earthquakes, strong objects like a desk or this forklift can create pockets next the strong object. That could have happened here enough for survival.

>> ^BoneRemake:
Before all you smarty pants start squaking about a quad or ATV or whatnot, that is not the sound an atv motor makes.
Just from a couple views it seems to be a reach forklift, but I ... I dunno this seems kinda odd that it'd bend the frame like that... again I watched it, seems normal now that I am focused, the transmission linkages are at the bend points. Seems real to me !


It's a logging cable skidder. Basically a winch on wheels. It laughs at 5 ton trees.