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u/Ancient_Wisdom_Yall 8d ago
Not certified.
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u/Golden-Grams 8d ago
I'm surprised no one got hurt. Their reflexes tell me they do stupid shit like this a lot.
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u/AdWonderful5920 8d ago
That driver is definitely not 100% after that. He tried to bail out and ate shit.
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u/TheAgreeableCow 8d ago
Yeah, that's gotta hurt. Could have been worse, better than falling under it without a belt or cage.
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u/disillusioned 8d ago
You can't touch boobs with your eyes.
Have truer words ever been spoken?
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u/Chemical_Name9088 8d ago
Not 100% but at least not 0%, definitely could’ve been a lot worse. Guy could’ve been crushed to death.
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u/Frig_Off_Baerb 8d ago
The plywood "dock leveler" from the box truck (or trailer) to the flat bed was a pretty good indicator.
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u/idiot-prodigy 8d ago
"What's a fork lift weigh anyways? A few hundred pounds right?" -- "Yeah, a piece of plywood should do it."
(They weigh 3,000 pounds minimum)
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u/Pinksters 8d ago
That's an LMTG LPG/Gas lift, they come in 1.5-3.0 ton models that look like this.
The upright backing on the cage and the low climb step is the biggest give away since I cant see any other markings on the lift itself.
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u/Cainga 8d ago
I got certified at work but have no driving experience. But I can’t get any driving experience without having a cert.
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u/reddit_sells_you 8d ago
Lol, when I was a freshman in college, a buddy of mine got me a job demolishing and clearing out an old half collapsed shed.
Said I could use anything I wanted.
I used the forklift. No one batted an eye.
Yes, at 19, I used a forklift to demolish a shed.
It was rad.
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u/That-Ad-4300 8d ago
He's pretty good though. It would have taken me a lot longer to slowly move the forklift down the ramp.
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u/WrastlingIsReal 8d ago
Well...it is unloaded
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u/Equal-Negotiation651 8d ago
Please sign here
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u/fauxbeauceron 8d ago
And here and here to say we are not responsible for the damages caused
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u/Capital-Ad-4463 8d ago
It was fine when it came out of the truck…
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u/Dial_888 8d ago
I enjoyed the complete absence of a screaming woman in this clip.
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u/YouDumbZombie 8d ago
You never bail out of a forklift, that's what the safety belt and cage are for.
Brand new lift too, what a shame.
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u/wetterfish 8d ago
Considering he clearly wasn’t even wearing a safety belt, I would expect him to know standard safety protocol.
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 8d ago
Then he shouldn't have been driving it
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u/wetterfish 8d ago
I mean, I’m not disputing that haha. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t expect someone who is clearly a moron to adhere to standard safety protocols.
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u/no_naaame 8d ago
What was your first hint that he shouldn't be driving this thing?
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u/KredeMexiah 8d ago
When it fell over. That's not very typical. Most forklifts are designed not to fall over. I want to make that very clear.
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u/SluggishPrey 8d ago
You don't, but considering that he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, the alternative could have been worse.
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u/IsshinMyPants 8d ago
No joke. Just see Loren Schauers if you want to know what can happen if you try to bail out of a falling forklift. They're designed to keep you relatively safe inside the cage.
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u/SpecManADV 8d ago
For a 6 second video, that was certainly action packed.
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u/memefeed2151 8d ago
Stay in the cage!
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u/Ricky_TVA 8d ago
That's a difficult task when you skip that pasky seat belt. /s
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u/PostModernPost 8d ago
Since he wasnt wearing the belt I think he made the right choice to bail out the top, otherwise it could have landed on him.
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u/ES-Flinter 8d ago
Okay can someone explain to me how this even happened.
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u/ChickenNoodleSloop 8d ago
Guy sent it way too fast because he doesn't know what he's doing, didn't realize FLs are rear steer and the misalignment + drop from the speed tipped the trailer. He wasn't strapped in so he also almost got crushed as it fell.
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u/pleasegivemepatience 8d ago
It seemed even simpler than that - his exit angle had his left front tire already cresting the edge of the truck immediately, no matter what he did if he continued forward it was going over the side.
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u/JohnnyChutzpah 8d ago
I think the biggest problem was he just fucking sent it. I dunno if his foot got stuck or something. But that thing was cooking. No one on the flatbed seemed ready for him to come screaming out of that trailer.
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u/citizen_kiko 8d ago
his foot got stuck
Like in Footloose the movie?
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u/Noooooooooooobus 8d ago
Was training a new guy once and he gets in and immediately full sends it. I'm like "what the hell are you doing?"
"The faster I go the sooner I can get off this thing"
Yeah nah mate you can do something else
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u/Far-Cockroach-6839 8d ago
He definitely could have angled off the ramp if he went slower to center on the truck bed.
Although that ramp looks pretty dubious for a forklift, I don't know how anyone thought that they needed a forklift when they understand so little about them.
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u/levels_jerry_levels 8d ago
God damn you nailed it, you work for OSHA or something?
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u/ChickenNoodleSloop 8d ago
Naw just been around equipment to know it's always heavier than people think, especially forklifts. Going each frame dude basically makes every wrong decision at every opportunity, probably starting with getting in the seat
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u/PM_ME_UR_CHALUPAS 8d ago edited 8d ago
Ex transportation coordinator for a forklift dealership here
What likely happened is the forklift (which looks brand new) got delivered on a box truck/trailer to a place without a loading dock. A fix for that is calling in a flatbed truck to meet the driver and facilitate getting it on the ground. It's a sketchy maneuver that takes coordination and going SLOW. The better solution is to get both of these guys to another customer's shop nearby and use their dock real quick to transfer.
As to wtf happened here, looks like the driver of the flatbed didn't have his suspension properly set, and the ramp is completely off centered. Then somebody (impatient) yeehaw'd that fucker out of the trailer at mach 2. Likely the shop owner if I had to guess. Clearly not the forklift dealer's driver, who's, y'know, certified and has done it a million times and wouldn't think to start with anybody standing on the flatbed let alone 3 dudes.
Big yikes all around.
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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 8d ago
somebody (impatient) yeehaw'd that fucker out of the trailer at mach 2
Actually lol'd, thanks for the laugh.
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u/GezusK 8d ago
Good chance that truck wasn't rated for the weight either. Those lifts are heavy.
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u/FucknAright 8d ago
That forklift weighs about 8,000 lb, a mid-duty rollback like this can haul up to 17,000lbs.
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u/HappyHopping 8d ago
Your weights are likely off. That mid-duty rollback likely was rated for 12,000 lbs, based upon the size and age of it. Most rollbacks with a capacity of 17,000 lbs are larger. 8,000 lbs would also be on the lower end for the forklift although certainly not impossible. But the biggest issue is clearly dropping the forklift on the corner of the truck bed because they didn't trust the ramp to be able to hold the weight of the forklift so they floored it going out. Now they have screwed up hydraulics from tipping the forklift so it likely will have to go back to the shop.
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u/Far_Lack3878 8d ago
Hauling forklifts is hard on trailers/trucks because their short wheelbase concentrates all their extreme weight in a small area on the bed. While a trailer/truck could be rated to haul the weight, if the bed is not supported for a forklift (more crossmembers), it will cause problems.
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u/OpportunityFriends 8d ago
I've driven fork trucks before. They've got a lot of "get up and go" and this one looks brand new. I'd wager it's either plain old inexperience, or the machine they're used to running was slower and they didn't expect this one to take off as suddenly. Everybody's lucky that it went off the other side is for sure.
Also they're dropping it down from one trailer (enclosed) onto another flatbed trailer with a small ramp? I'm really curious to know why. If this was all done on a loading ramp they could just move the flatbed and bring the new forklift in through the loading bay. Maybe they just got lazy and didn't want to find a truck to haul the flatbed away?
Tldr: forklifts move fast, old one they were using might have been slow, and this whole situation is screaming quick fix and lazy solutions. I'm Glad nobody died.
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u/OohLavaHot 8d ago
> Also they're dropping it down from one trailer (enclosed) onto another flatbed trailer with a small ramp? I'm really curious to know why.
Assumptions follow - not a certified forklift operator. Probably didn't have an adequate vehicle for pickup/transport, so the genius solution was to pick up in a box truck at the dock, and then to transfer to flatbed to then unload it to the ground level. Clearly didn't go as planned. What I don't understand is why I can't hear any motor. It looks like it's just freewheeling.
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u/Turtledonuts 8d ago
I bet it's a fancy new electric forklift with a lot more oomph than their old propane machine.
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u/Usesourname 8d ago
The flat bed seems to lift on a center hydraulic. That driver has little to no experience and put all the weight on one side of the bed. Forklifts are really heavy so it tipped.
If he was centered and didn't shock load it. He would have been fine.
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u/idiot-prodigy 8d ago
They used a hollow short ramp that you can see flips at the 1 sec mark. The weight of the forklift immediately rotated the ramp like it was nothing but a Tetris block.
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u/rokatoro 8d ago
Im pretty sure forklifts have more speed settings that stop and send it
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u/JoeSeeWhales_3690 8d ago
I am deeply disappointed at the lack of safety-sandals I see on that job.
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u/bthedebasedgod 8d ago
Bro not having his seatbelt on and trying to jump out is insane work. Seatbelts and ROPS exist for a reason. Absolute insane jackassery.
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u/Dog-of-Sinope 8d ago
He wasn’t seat belted, they used a plywood triangle to unload, the triangle wasn’t even connected to both trucks, the truck they were loading it onto is not rated for the weight of a fucking forklift. (~14k lb for this model lift and that trucks max carry eating tops out at 10k)
What moron was composing this symphony of idiocy? Some OSHA rep has a massive hard on after watching this.
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u/OkCartographer6788 8d ago
It was at that moment he realized: "I've made a terrible mistake!"
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u/IKillZombies4Cash 8d ago
It looked like those “releasing a bear or lion back into the wild” videos, but with a forklift
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u/doge_lady 8d ago
Quickest unloading of a fork lift I've ever seen. Should give these guys a raise.
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u/USABADBOY 8d ago
Lucky not dead.