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      03-09-2020, 01:34 PM   #3477
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Much different environment in your case. Mine is all manufacturing industrial use and all indoors. You have WAY more potential of accidents. Hell, I can't even consistently get our guys to complete inspection reports at the beginning and end of each shift.
Once a month or so you'd hear the telltale "roar" of a unit of lumber getting dropped or tipped over and coming undone. You just hoped you didn't see blood oozing out from under it when you found it. In the lumber and construction business you'd usually expect to have a couple guys die on the job every year; it's gotten better lately, I think. We had some guys who had been in some nasty accidents. One guy was unloading a box car full of 2x4 studs and about a thousand of them tipped over and buried him. His face was crooked and full of titanium.

The trickiest maneuver we had to do was loading and unloading 60' laminated beams. They're packed flat, not on edge, so they sag. A lot. You'd have to get the middle - once you found it - at least 15' off the ground before the ends were off the ground. And then you had to maneuver through aisles that were only 20-30' wide. So you drove down one aisle, and the ends of the beams were traveling down the aisles on either side. And this is over unpaved ground, which was often snowy or muddy and always uneven. There were only a few of us who could do it consistently. Nobody else ever wanted to even try it. And if you dumped a pack of those, have fun wrestling 20 or 30 beams that are 60' long and weigh around 3-400 pounds each. Not for the faint of heart.
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I remember being tapped to give forklift training years ago. They put me through some training, than I was certified.

When I gave classes, I found the cheesiest video I could that looked like it was made for "Faces of Death". I bet they used 50 gallons of fake blood in that video.

You should have seen the look on some of their faces. I just thought it was like those scared straight programs!
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I remember being tapped to give forklift training years ago. They put me through some training, than I was certified.

When I gave classes, I found the cheesiest video I could that looked like it was made for "Faces of Death". I bet they used 50 gallons of fake blood in that video.

You should have seen the look on some of their faces. I just thought it was like those scared straight programs!
I remember having to watch a super-cheesy one out of the '50s. It was the Reefer Madness of forklift safety.
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Oh man, I miss playing on a forklift all day. My 1st job was in a warehouse & doing forklift donuts was awesome!!

We also (I worked with a HS friend) beat the hell out of the company cars (Escort wagons) and Econoline van. A whole $6 an hr to start!
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Once a month or so you'd hear the telltale "roar" of a unit of lumber getting dropped or tipped over and coming undone. You just hoped you didn't see blood oozing out from under it when you found it. In the lumber and construction business you'd usually expect to have a couple guys die on the job every year; it's gotten better lately, I think. We had some guys who had been in some nasty accidents. One guy was unloading a box car full of 2x4 studs and about a thousand of them tipped over and buried him. His face was crooked and full of titanium.

The trickiest maneuver we had to do was loading and unloading 60' laminated beams. They're packed flat, not on edge, so they sag. A lot. You'd have to get the middle - once you found it - at least 15' off the ground before the ends were off the ground. And then you had to maneuver through aisles that were only 20-30' wide. So you drove down one aisle, and the ends of the beams were traveling down the aisles on either side. And this is over unpaved ground, which was often snowy or muddy and always uneven. There were only a few of us who could do it consistently. Nobody else ever wanted to even try it. And if you dumped a pack of those, have fun wrestling 20 or 30 beams that are 60' long and weigh around 3-400 pounds each. Not for the faint of heart.
Similar experiences at a former employer. I was the Purchasing Supervisor and when the guy that worked in the tool crib was out of the office I would have to step in and unload trucks or containers. When we received flat carbon stock it was the same ordeal. Twenty foot sticks that had to be lifted from the center going inside a building with a 15' wide door. Forks way up, material sagging on both ends, then backing up the lift next to the building and carefully angling yourself inside with maybe 2" to spare. God I hated unloading the steel shipments. I was fortunate that I never hit or dropped anything. I had seen plenty of guys who are better forklift operators than I am, drop those loads.

I did watch one of our guys knock over a pallet that had 2 - 55 gallon drums of used hydraulic oil in the back of a box truck that belonged to our oil vendor. Even better, the guys that worked in the press department that pumped the oil into the drums failed to secure the lids. It was a fantastic mess.
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Crazy I drove a forklift for a produce company and made deliveries in a flatbed f350 and worked at Sears automotive and drive an econoline van that caught fire while I was on the freeway.
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With all the shit I have to deal with in life right now, I'm a ticking time bomb on losing my shit.
I can relate with this statement at the moment. I'm ready to drop bombs.
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With all the shit I have to deal with in life right now, I'm a ticking time bomb on losing my shit.
I can relate with this statement at the moment. I'm ready to drop bombs.
Right there with you. Just when things were starting to chill, life kicks me right in the balls again.

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I can relate with this statement at the moment. I'm ready to drop bombs.
I was ready to explode on Thursday, weekend was a nice refresher but slowly building it up again
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Once a month or so you'd hear the telltale "roar" of a unit of lumber getting dropped or tipped over and coming undone. You just hoped you didn't see blood oozing out from under it when you found it. In the lumber and construction business you'd usually expect to have a couple guys die on the job every year; it's gotten better lately, I think. We had some guys who had been in some nasty accidents. One guy was unloading a box car full of 2x4 studs and about a thousand of them tipped over and buried him. His face was crooked and full of titanium.

The trickiest maneuver we had to do was loading and unloading 60' laminated beams. They're packed flat, not on edge, so they sag. A lot. You'd have to get the middle - once you found it - at least 15' off the ground before the ends were off the ground. And then you had to maneuver through aisles that were only 20-30' wide. So you drove down one aisle, and the ends of the beams were traveling down the aisles on either side. And this is over unpaved ground, which was often snowy or muddy and always uneven. There were only a few of us who could do it consistently. Nobody else ever wanted to even try it. And if you dumped a pack of those, have fun wrestling 20 or 30 beams that are 60' long and weigh around 3-400 pounds each. Not for the faint of heart.
So what you’re saying is, you handle a lot of wood in your line of work...
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So what you’re saying is, you handle a lot of wood in your line of work...
Yes, I can honestly claim to have wielded 60-foot wood hundreds of times.
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Yes, I can honestly claim to have wielded 60-foot wood hundreds of times.
You gonna update your dating profile accordingly or what?
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Had our weekly sales meeting today & he brought up me moving out of my office. He thinks myself, him, the marketing lady & whomever the new OSR is (They are looking to hire someone) need to be together in the office.

He's making an issue when there is not one there IMO. I told him I should be left where I am so I have peace & quiet to talk to people. He was saying that he will move into my office & shove the 3 of us out in the "lobby" area sardine canned together. No thank you!

Next time, I might have to bring up my IBS, been doing this for years & have had my own office for as long as I can remember, I will be unhappy if moved to cube or whatever, everyone else does not want to hear my podcasts all day & I am not going to sit in silence all day...
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Had our weekly sales meeting today & he brought up me moving out of my office. He thinks myself, him, the marketing lady & whomever the new OSR is (They are looking to hire someone) need to be together in the office.

He's making an issue when there is not one there IMO. I told him I should be left where I am so I have peace & quiet to talk to people. He was saying that he will move into my office & shove the 3 of us out in the "lobby" area sardine canned together. No thank you!

Next time, I might have to bring up my IBS, been doing this for years & have had my own office for as long as I can remember, I will be unhappy if moved to cube or whatever, everyone else does not want to hear my podcasts all day & I am not going to sit in silence all day...
Ahhh, and there's your reasoning behind the whole thing. He wants your office. You're fucked.
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Ahhh, and there's your reasoning behind the whole thing. He wants your office. You're fucked.
His thing is he wants us all together. He already has his own nice office.
I even suggested I then move into his old office or my old boss's vacant office, but no dice.
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& I came in today to see my nice pen has been stolen!

Good thing I took my hand sanitizer home last night to refill it w/homemade (Thanks aholes that have stripped shelves in all the stores of everything w/your panic buying). That would probably have been stolen too.
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& I came in today to see my nice pen has been stolen!

Good thing I took my hand sanitizer home last night to refill it w/homemade (Thanks aholes that have stripped shelves in all the stores of everything w/your panic buying). That would probably have been stolen too.
Dude yeah, one of my friends posted on his story from the local Walmart, empty shelves for miles for any form of sanitation product :I
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Had our weekly sales meeting today & he brought up me moving out of my office. He thinks myself, him, the marketing lady & whomever the new OSR is (They are looking to hire someone) need to be together in the office.

He's making an issue when there is not one there IMO. I told him I should be left where I am so I have peace & quiet to talk to people. He was saying that he will move into my office & shove the 3 of us out in the "lobby" area sardine canned together. No thank you!

Next time, I might have to bring up my IBS, been doing this for years & have had my own office for as long as I can remember, I will be unhappy if moved to cube or whatever, everyone else does not want to hear my podcasts all day & I am not going to sit in silence all day...

Maybe you can delay the inevitable by suggesting some of the guidelines in the Corona/Work thread.

At our place, we are trying to separate people, not move them closer together.
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You gonna update your dating profile accordingly or what?
Nah, I don't want to scare them all off. They'll find out eventually, if they survive the screening process and get to meet Big Jim.
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Twenty foot sticks that had to be lifted from the center going inside a building with a 15' wide door. Forks way up, material sagging on both ends, then backing up the lift next to the building and carefully angling yourself inside with maybe 2" to spare.
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We called that maneuver the "Poke and Pivot."

One of the funniest things I've ever seen, and which will probably remain so forever, is the time a guy hit a railroad track with the forks.

He was in one of our big Hyster 195s, which were monsters and had a pretty decent top speed - probably around 20 mph. He usually operated smaller lifts, so he was probably hot-dogging and having a great time.

The yard foreman and I were bullshitting near one of our rail stubs and heard a roar coming around a corner and turned to make sure we weren't about to get run over. The forklift soon appeared and was running flat-out. The forks were empty and we could see right away the operator had them tilted forward slightly and way too low for hauling ass across that uneven yard; the tips were skimming the tar.

When he hit the rail crossing, both forks hit the rail square and that 30,000-pound machine instantly stopped dead and reared up and pitched him into the windshield. For a split-second he looked like a 2-year-old clowning around mushing his face against a car window.

The foreman and I saw the whole thing from 20 feet away and nearly pissed ourselves - once we knew he was okay, that is.

The operator got a gorgeous bilateral shiner, and I spent a half-hour grinding the barbs off the fork tips so you could actually set stuff down again with it.
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We called that maneuver the "Poke and Pivot."

One of the funniest things I've ever seen, and which will probably remain so forever, is the time a guy hit a railroad track with the forks.

He was in one of our big Hyster 195s, which were monsters and had a pretty decent top speed - probably around 20 mph. He usually operated smaller lifts, so he was probably hot-dogging and having a great time.

The yard foreman and I were bullshitting near one of our rail stubs and heard a roar coming around a corner and turned to make sure we weren't about to get run over. The forklift soon appeared and was running flat-out. The forks were empty and we could see right away the operator had them tilted forward slightly and way too low for hauling ass across that uneven yard; the tips were skimming the tar.

When he hit the rail crossing, both forks hit the rail square and that 30,000-pound machine instantly stopped dead and reared up and pitched him into the windshield. For a split-second he looked like a 2-year-old clowning around mushing his face against a car window.

The foreman and I saw the whole thing from 20 feet away and nearly pissed ourselves - once we knew he was okay, that is.

The operator got a gorgeous bilateral shiner, and I spent a half-hour grinding the barbs off the fork tips so you could actually set stuff down again with it.


I'll tell one on myself. When I first started operating a forklift, years ago; I was on a 5k lift unloading a container of new production line equipment. The load I was transporting was way too heavy for the lift. I was able to get the load lifted (barely) and started slowly making my way to the area the equipment was to be installed. In this facility, we had LGV (laser guided vehicles) as material handlers. Basically unmanned robots that were pre-programmed to pick up material from one department and transport to another. I had an LGV cross my path as I was transporting this heavy ass load so I tapped the brakes. This caused the steer tires to be raised off the ground by about a foot thus creating a situation where I could not steer.....instant butt pucker. I thought for sure that the seat of the forklift would need to be replaced; first from the the tear my clinched ass cheeks were about to create and second from the stains that were about to come after. Somehow I calmly thought to lower the load, redefine the stability point and lowered my steer tires back on the ground. I have to say the feeling of doing an indo or nose-wheelie on a 7,5000 pound of equipment, while loaded and trying to avoid another machine coming directly at me, was more than enough to wake me up that morning.
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