Most Delicate Operations?

[Timber]

I'm happy if I can pluck a pallet out of my pickup without destroying it

[MAYOR8020]

i to can pick up a dime w/ forks I ALSO can seperate a unit of ply or sheetrock or lumber w/ forks w/ no dammage

[Kendrick]

My closest is not miniture work but combo situations... 1 new freezer that was not installed properly ie 1" of ice coating the floor. 3 10' tall pallets of frozen turkeys a 10' tall cherry picker walkbehind fork with a 10' tall door to the freezer. about 10 1' wide roley carts and shelving on the other wall.

due to the stores managers being morons the freezer dept which was scheduled for 4 people became soley my job. they also refued to admit the freezer was broken[it was fixed after over a years operation like that].

we also got stuck holding on to bakery's stuff due to their lazyness and never making room in their freezer for their order[solved that one to ]. I was able to load and unload that freezer in about 10-20 min even if it ment pulling every thing out. I could selectivly pull all those metal carts out with the forks. if i had a hole i could pick just 1 or 2 or 3 and pull them out lowering the forks at just the right time to not hit the doorway. I could also pull those 3 pallets of turkeys out with similer ease. I was probably the only person in that store that regularly used the high lifter specially since it had side rollers to keep from tipping while the top was up. the dificult part was the ice coating with those turkeys the back wheel would slip so you had to know how to run it other wise you would put the turkeys in to the deary cooler wo a door I never did put any scratches in the walls of that freezer. I also pinwheeled the pallets when the bakery pissed me off. when lined up all 3 pallets in the back had 2" on either side clearance. I was able to consistantly drop the pallet spin it and then pick it up from the blocked side and slide it in place then dropped the 3rd pallet of turkeys infront of it. if i was relly peeved the 2nd pallet of turkeys would get turned to. the bakery had 2 choices from then on crawl over the pallets of turkeys and the carts to get to their stuff. or make room in their freezer for their order the night time head was a cool guy and also had gotten tird of telling them to do thier job. the next day when the bakery manager came screeming no one knew what he was talking about or who could have done such a thing its to heavy to man handle like that and the small pallet jacks would never have the power or traction to do it. the night lead and I had a hoot with that one. by the time the bakery lead got back there with him his pallet was sitting in front of the turkey pallets. just about had to get a spatchula to peal his chin off the ground. one of his guys had broken one of the turkey pallets with the little lifts trying to bash it around or somthing...

while he was screaming allover the store I had swapped out all the pallets and cleaned up all the splinters from the palet they broke. when they arrived he calmly went through the whole you must be delusinal about pallet placement and by the way if you dont clear out your freezer next time you come in you will find the pallet on your chair rotting.

when he got back from chewing bakery out he came back looking stern and shut the door... as soon as the fans kicked in so no one would hear we both about laughed our selves silly. he said he never wanted to know how I did it but he would have to buy me dinner some time. the bakery manager only forgot 1 time afterwords

[ScottAR]

Reminds me of when I worked at the big blue box. Our insulation area was too narrow for a ride on lift; they wanted you to use a stand up "sidewinder" lift.

They were always tied up or broken so a couple of us learned to fit a ride on lift
in there by creative fork placement and using the sideshift.

We'd set one fork dead center on the carriage and the other out at the end.
You could only turn in one direction. If the stacks were on your right, the outboard fork was on your left and vice versa. You'd tilt the mast as far back as it took to get the center fork in the right pocket and then while turning into the pallet; you'd shift the forks left till you were under it.

Backing up you'd reverse the procedure. A manager caught me once after the store closed doing this. "You can't do that!" says he. "Watch me..." says
I. Pretty sure I'd get fired now if I still worked there. Back then I got a pat on the back for being creative.

[AndyinIowa]

Being that I'm an engineer and more of a Penn and Teller fan....


Picking up a coin from a concrete floor with a fork truck:

1. Tipping the tines slightly forward (depends on type of tines)

2. Moving tine over dime

3. Pin the dime under the tine

4. Slowly back up.

When the dime is almost out from under the tine, it will literally flip itself up on the tine.

This trick takes practice, and depends on the wear and tear on the tines and flooring. Its best to practice in an area you will be using to win a bet...


IowaAndy

[swines]

The best I've seen is a backhoe operator on one of my projects. We had the utility locator people come out and mark everything (or so we thought) - but, there was the "unknown water line."

The hole being excavated was to put in a manhole, at about 8-feet, the backhoe operator raised the bucket and said, "There's something down there."

Hand excavation uncovered a 2-inch copper water line. He had put a very small dent in the line with one of the bucket teeth when he felt the line and raised the bucket.

[xlr82v2]

Originally Posted by AndyinIowa

Being that I'm an engineer and more of a Penn and Teller fan....


IowaAndy

You know, it's a good thing you're in Iowa, because if you did that where I work... you'd probably be gettin' a beatdown...

You don't give out the secret for free!

How disappointing.....

[Kendrick]

Originally Posted by swines

He had put a very small dent in the line with one of the bucket teeth when he felt the line and raised the bucket.

if i could only work that well with mine

[amitysanimal]

While not a tractor, I ran a JD 648D grapple skidder for 6 years. The grapples tongs are 10' apart when open and I could pick up glass Mason jars and carry them out of the woods without breaking them.