Re: Re: Is this an appropriate place to ask.......

Posted by Carla on June 19, 2004 at 13:22:05 from (165.247.205.61):

In Reply to: Re: Is this an appropriate place to ask........ posted by Dick2 on June 18, 2004 at 15:31:10:

Now,now, Dick, thats not a nice thing to say, at least without further data.....

If we were thinking of using a '30's forklift in a busy warehouse, and employing the generality of "minimum wage worker" to operate it, yes, you'd have a fair point......but that's just not the case, in this instance.

We deal in surplus, on a very small scale, and I do restoration/refinishing of old widgets of one sort an another. Our actual need for a forklift is rather limited, but, as has been said about some other classes of items, when you need one, nothing else will take its place.

Sure, those old forklifts will tip over if run carelessly.....but, if used with reasonable caution, they do just fine....

Years and years ago, I knew an older gentleman who had a small business rebuilding forklifts for the canneries in San Jose, Cal, where the forklifts were used very heavily during cannery season......loading out thousands and thousands of tons of palleted canned goods.....the fork trucks would be literally worn out, running at high speed 24hrs/day, then overhauled after cannery season was over. Accidents were quite few and far between, as the cannery management took care to train and retain careful operators.

In short, yes, the workers of today apparently cannot be trained or expected to work carefully and prudently.....but, in this instance, I'll be running this old Clark myself, and, even if I do say so myself, I know what I am about....(I may follow the example of an old rigger I knew, who took the overhead cage off his 6000# Clark, and threw it away.....his explanation for that was that he didn't need it himself, and not having it on the forklift was his "reason" why he "just couldn't" allow anyone else to use his old Clark...."well, its just not safe for anyone else, you understand".)

cheers

Carla

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