Weekend is over...what did you get done?

[UNCC_99XJ]

Well for those who aren't friends with me on Facebook, I managed to.....

Get my forklift stuck in the front yard at work this afternoon.

Son of a....

Set a record time by covering 40 miles in 45 minutes to race home, get the Jeep, and race back.

First attempt at removal. The goofy lookin dude in the middle would be me looking at it going "something tells me this won't work"

And it didn't. After making the rear end go bouncy bouncy a couple of times, I gave up that angle and went for the "drag it across the yard like a plow...method":

Which was a success...after a couple of relatively hard snatches. Stupid forklifts are heavy! Now the front yard has a bit of character:

We don't have any forklift recovery stickers do we? If not, I'd like to formally put in my request for "Forklift Recovery Vehicle #1"

 

[shortxjdoug]

i did have a student driver sticker on our old hyster back in the day...... some wise ass cut the "stu" off.... it was more accurate that way

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

i did have a student driver sticker on our old hyster back in the day...... some wise ass cut the "stu" off.... it was more accurate that way

Man that would have been great to have a few months ago when the knuckle head who worked for me was still around. I'm still finding things (walls, sections of shelving units..etc) that have yellow paint on them. I'm really struggling to find something he didn't hit.

 

[sam24th]

Man that would have been great to have a few months ago when the knuckle head who worked for me was still around. I'm still finding things (walls, sections of shelving units..etc) that have yellow paint on them. I'm really struggling to find something he didn't hit.

Do you work at barloworld? Thats like right down the street from where I work part time.

 

[shortxjdoug]

i knew i had the pic..... didnt work for me, but it was a bigger forklift. tried the 1 ton dodge but no dice, ended up using the other smaller forklift and a snatch strap i had in the jeep... pic is from 06 id just become a naxja member


whoever built the friggin ramps made them 1/2 an inch wider than the forklift, made loading outboard motors in and out the crate really fun...

 

[shortxjdoug]

Man that would have been great to have a few months ago when the knuckle head who worked for me was still around. I'm still finding things (walls, sections of shelving units..etc) that have yellow paint on them. I'm really struggling to find something he didn't hit.

i had a tech drive both forks right through the thin aluminum deck sides of a pontoon one time.... thats one of many stories



the best was i latched an old boat and trailer to the hitch ball on the fork, at the top of a hill it unlatched (to this day the only trailer ever to completely unlatch on me) and went rolling toward a 45,000 dollar bass boat, i mashed the gas and hooked the bowstop with the fork and caught the runaway boat..... good times


short"fork lift olympian"xjdoug

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Do you work at barloworld? Thats like right down the street from where I work part time.

Nope, I work less than a mile down the road from them. Corner of Downs and Eagleton Downs if you're familiar with the area. We just purchased a 2nd warehouse behind Cooper-Kenworth...almost on the corner of Nations Ford and Westinghouse. Barloworld is actually where I bought that Hyster. Where do you work?

i had a tech drive both forks right through the thin aluminum deck sides of a pontoon one time.... thats one of many stories



the best was i latched an old boat and trailer to the hitch ball on the fork, at the top of a hill it unlatched (to this day the only trailer ever to completely unlatch on me) and went rolling toward a 45,000 dollar bass boat, i mashed the gas and hooked the bowstop with the fork and caught the runaway boat..... good times


short"fork lift olympian"xjdoug

:roflmao:

 

[stumpXJ]

I have dropped three Honda sport bikes in crates (stacked on top of each other) while unloading them out of the truck trailer. I didnt know it but they were leaning on the side of the trailer as I was backing out, and once I got past the door... they hit the ground.

Boss wasnt too happy that day. Oh well...

 

[Ghost]

I remember that Jeep!

 

[shortxjdoug]

I remember that Jeep!

it was the nicest jeep ive owned and it made it halfway up slickrock!


the tierod went right here...... matt is obviously making the STOP! face and im not looking

drove it out after some interesting winch work

 

[kastein]

your wheeling looks a lot like ours.

 

[shortxjdoug]

your wheeling looks a lot like ours.

that was tellico..... so its no more



but yeah theres a lot of hills strewn with rocks around middle tn north AL area it makes for some nice wheeling

 

[kastein]

yeah... I like to say that our wheeling is "we have rocks... with mud on them... some of them even have ninja trees around that jump out at your body panels as you go by"

 

[shortxjdoug]

yeah... I like to say that our wheeling is "we have rocks... with mud on them... some of them even have ninja trees around that jump out at your body panels as you go by"

yup... the ninja trees are the reason for a body-less buggy.... im like the good tree hugger, i cant get away from the damn things

 

[FlexdXJ]

Worked on the Subie last night, got pissed and its for sale now, gonna look for a 2wd MJ with a 4.0 and lower it a little for AutoX, May even bump it up to 3.73's for a little more pep.

 

[sam24th]

Nope, I work less than a mile down the road from them. Corner of Downs and Eagleton Downs if you're familiar with the area. We just purchased a 2nd warehouse behind Cooper-Kenworth...almost on the corner of Nations Ford and Westinghouse. Barloworld is actually where I bought that Hyster. Where do you work?

ah I know exactly where that is. I pass by the Cooper Kenworth place like 3 times a week. I work a lil ways down Westinghouse just past the Marathon on the right if you are heading towards Tryon. Its an insulation company called GMB.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

ah I know exactly where that is. I pass by the Cooper Kenworth place like 3 times a week. I work a lil ways down Westinghouse just past the Marathon on the right if you are heading towards Tryon. Its an insulation company called GMB.

Know exactly where you are. Used to live off 160 and go by there every day back and forth to work. What days/hours are you down there? We should meet up for lunch one day or something.

 

[Lowrange2]

i had a tech drive both forks right through the thin aluminum deck sides of a pontoon one time.... thats one of many stories



the best was i latched an old boat and trailer to the hitch ball on the fork, at the top of a hill it unlatched (to this day the only trailer ever to completely unlatch on me) and went rolling toward a 45,000 dollar bass boat, i mashed the gas and hooked the bowstop with the fork and caught the runaway boat..... good times


short"fork lift olympian"xjdoug

Forklift stories?

I used to work for Fuji Film here in Greenwood. The plant that made the 35mm disposable cameras...

I was the famed fork lift driver that had to keep materials to the lines so I was constantly on the forklift. The heaviest thing I had to move was pallets of AAA batteries. Each section of the warehouse was partitioned by huge roll-up doors. The doors opened so fast automatically that you could head straight for them at full speed and not hit them. I did it all the time. Never slow down.

Except this one time... I didn't slow down but the door had a hiccup half way up and BAAAAMMMMM. Took this 10,000 dollar door straight out of the frame, wrapped it around the front of the forklift and then hit the floor. The best part was the pallet of 10,000 AAA batteries that exploded everywhere. I was still finding batteries a month later.

That was an interesting night as well.

 

[shortxjdoug]

Forklift stories?

I used to work for Fuji Film here in Greenwood. The plant that made the 35mm disposable cameras...

I was the famed fork lift driver that had to keep materials to the lines so I was constantly on the forklift. The heaviest thing I had to move was pallets of AAA batteries. Each section of the warehouse was partitioned by huge roll-up doors. The doors opened so fast automatically that you could head straight for them at full speed and not hit them. I did it all the time. Never slow down.

Except this one time... I didn't slow down but the door had a hiccup half way up and BAAAAMMMMM. Took this 10,000 dollar door straight out of the frame, wrapped it around the front of the forklift and then hit the floor. The best part was the pallet of 10,000 AAA batteries that exploded everywhere. I was still finding batteries a month later.

That was an interesting night as well.

when vacation time travel becomes a possibility im putting on a warehouse uniform and going here first.... i bet it was fun to watch

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

No kidding!

Right up until that last moment where you realize you're going to take out the door and you say....."awwww, crap!"