Ton-up
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slim_boy_fat
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An incredibly lucky chap. 
That doesn't look like any forklift I've ever seen. And I like the pic of the surgeon holding a similar spike, in front of him is a sharps box.....
That doesn't look like any forklift I've ever seen. And I like the pic of the surgeon holding a similar spike, in front of him is a sharps box.....
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telehandlerAn incredibly lucky chap.
That doesn't look like any forklift I've ever seen. And I like the pic of the surgeon holding a similar spike, in front of him is a sharps box.....
I bet knowing it had a problem made you extra careful though!
Sometimes knowing something is dodgy makes you a lot more careful.
That's why many accidents are caused by simple things that don't seem dangerous. You tend to be a lot more careful with things that can obviously kill you
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Mate of mine has been a farmer for almost 40 years. When he was an apprentice (is that the right word?) on a farm in Falkirk he was running down the hill in the snow and impaled his foot on one of these spike'd tines (is it called a "grape"?).
Took him half an hour to hobble back to the farmhouse.
He told his boss he had put a fork through his foot as thought he'd have got sacked for running in the field.
He was off for weeks because of the secondary infection...
Farming sees more accidents than any other industry. Often fatal.
A farmer near me had a bad accident the other day hedge cutting. could have been worse though in so many ways. He was cutting the hedge from inside the field above the road. Tractor slid down a the bank onto the main road - lucky nothing coming and lucky the tractor spun around on the road or it would have gone over a 200' drop!
Sadly he didn't come out of it unscathed - a branch went straight through a window on the cab and caught him in the face. Last I heard he may lose an eye.
A farmer near me had a bad accident the other day hedge cutting. could have been worse though in so many ways. He was cutting the hedge from inside the field above the road. Tractor slid down a the bank onto the main road - lucky nothing coming and lucky the tractor spun around on the road or it would have gone over a 200' drop!
Sadly he didn't come out of it unscathed - a branch went straight through a window on the cab and caught him in the face. Last I heard he may lose an eye.
If you stepped out of anything in the Army and left a bucket up , and didnt neutralise the hydraulics it was a weeks wages fine instantly . I hate to see things sitting with buckets up etc when it can be avoided , while it does not bypass hand brakes and x line check valves etc it does make for a simple and safer working practice,
I stopped off at a small trading estate in Crawley the other week, a big central car park with units and shops all round the edge. In the parking bays were two cherry pickers, fully extended to full height and no-one in sight so they were obviously parked up waiting for some contractors to arrive. Presumably they were left like that to reduce the amount of space they took up, compared to the boom-down position. I don’t know if they are fitted with any sort of mechanical lock, but if not it only needs a little rubber seal to give up…
They seem to be always left like that, something to do with not being able to tamper with the controls as you can lock the bottom control box I think
x line checked , means that they wont come down unless they are powered down , even wiggling the levers wont lower them , its so if a hose blows the guy in the basket stays there rather than forming a stain on the tarmac . Most things that lift goods or people are like that.
Every days a school day! Thanks.
