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Thoughts about a Baker Forklift

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Tweeter

02-24-2006 06:25:19




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Someone is selling a Baker forklift near me and I would like to buy it. It has a running Hercules engine and is propane. The person selling it says it needs distributor work. Are these distributors basically same as old tractors. I am told that it was made approx. in 1955.
I would appreciate anything anyone has to say (+,-) about the Baker forklifts.




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Jon Holt

02-24-2006 19:51:23




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 Re: Thoughts about a Baker Forklift in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 06:25:19  
I have a Baker crane that was given to me from my wife's uncle. It has been sitting for several years, and I am slowly getting it back into running shape. There is a picture of it in the tractor photos.



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benny2

02-24-2006 10:21:56




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 First the Baker is Re: Thoughts about a Baker For in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 06:25:19  
A product of the Otis elevator Company.
They are pretty much the same as the other forklift of the day. The only parts in the machines that were made by the name of the forklift was the chasis and maybe the mast. Baker was considered one of the better ones of the era with the Yale being the most popular and haveing the best designs. Hyster of that era was a total POS poorley designed and didnt come out with a very good machine till 62 or 63. Herc engines are the worst of the major engines to get as the parts for them must be formed in an allchemist lab instead of a factory (alchemists= a sorcerer's magic culldron changing metal to GOLD). Best engine is the old Cry industrial six, parts for these can be had at the corner drug store. You will find drive train commom between all of the older forklifts.
drive axels by Eaton, Yale, Clark, Gears by Warner, Clark, Bendix. Propane is a real pain to have unless you need it for lots of inside use. This thing would have to be as cheap as dirt for me to buy it. I would keep looking for the better era of the mid 60s machines, it just happen to be the "break through era" of modern design.

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Tweeter

02-24-2006 11:03:59




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 Re: First the Baker is Re: Thoughts about a Baker in reply to benny2, 02-24-2006 10:21:56  
What would be "dirt cheap" to you?



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benny2

02-24-2006 11:54:10




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 Re: First the Baker is Re: Thoughts about a Baker in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 11:03:59  
If it is a hard rubber tire 1/2 value of scrap weight/value

If it has penumatic whels tires 1 1/2 times scrap weight/value

Actualy I have been paid to take and haul such machines away. Sprap yards (metal only) HATE forklifts and many wont even take them, it is just to hard for them to deal with the big cast iron counter weight.



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Tweeter

02-24-2006 14:23:18




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 Re: First the Baker is Re: Thoughts about a Baker in reply to benny2, 02-24-2006 11:54:10  
How do I figure out how much it is to scrap?



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J. Schwiebert

02-24-2006 07:35:13




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 Re: Thoughts about a Baker Forklift in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 06:25:19  
The time I worked for a local industry they reeserected a Baker that someone else junked out. It was a 6 cylinder Continental How about a better description on the engine and forklift. Capacity of the forklift, engine size: 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder, L-Head, Overhead valve options on the lift truck etc.



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Tweeter

02-24-2006 07:53:07




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 Re: Thoughts about a Baker Forklift in reply to J. Schwiebert, 02-24-2006 07:35:13  
I am told it has a Hercules ILXB engine. Lift capacity is under 4000 lbs. and has a 9ft mast. I am told it starts but needs to be jump started and that it operates fine. There are 3 pedals on the floor, looks like maybe a accelerator, then two pedals that look the same on either side of the steering housing. There are two short levers on the steering column and then one or two on the right side of the driver seat. I dont know anything about the tranny. What do the trannys look like in forklifts?

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thejdman01

02-25-2006 18:17:48




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 Re: Thoughts about a Baker Forklift in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 07:53:07  
Would say you have a clutch, brake and accelerator on the floor (left to right) and on the levers, the lever to the left of the steering colum is yoru forward and reverse (push ahead to go forward, other 2 will be tilt and up/down



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old

02-24-2006 06:54:46




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 Re: Thoughts about a Baker Forklift in reply to Tweeter, 02-24-2006 06:25:19  
What model hercules engine does it have. If its say an IXB then parts aren't that bad to find. Cletracs used the IXB



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