...Or they need to make sure their insurance policies are up to date.
Sumpin’.
So are you all done with the move? I mean, except for Sunday?
As long as you’ve never got the forks stuck all the way up because you didn’t properly center the load before making the lift, I think you’re probably alright. Had a guy do that with an entire lift of 1/2” hard copper pipe. He took the 20 foot long bundle off of the flatbed outside the gate and had to lift it up so the ends would clear the top of the fence to get back into the yard, then had to jack it up a bit more to get above two of our trucks.
Problem was, when he made the lift, he didn’t have the load in the middle; it was close to three feet off to one side. The bonehead actually got lucky that the whole dog and pony show didn’t just topple over with him in it. THAT’D have been one ugly wreck; could have killed somebody.
Anyway, when he got to a clear spot where there was room to bring the load down, the ram came down but the forks just hung up there in the air with that whole lift of copper pipe trying to decide whether to overcome the coefficient of static friction or not, and good ol’ gravity there the whole time just beggin it to.
“HARD HAT AREA” don’t begin to describe the potential for disaster, there. If that load had come down... Well, there’d have been a really flat spot on that side of the planet, for sure.
I looked over at the operator and asked him, “Uh, you think you just MIGHT want to get the ram back up there before that load decides to slip?” You know, a sorta rhetorical kind of question.
He did, and then went and got a neighbor to bring their lift truck over to help get the problem resolved.
Darn good thing our insurance agent wasn’t around.