17 year old in forklift accident

Gilligan

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NorthBeachPerso said:
You can laugh at this or not, but when we moved to Calvert nearly forty years ago there were still a few farmers who used oxen or mules to plow, harvest, cut, etc. (and they weren't Amish).

Yes, we really ****ed this County up.
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When Pop bought our farm, it had been in the same family since it was granted in the late 1600s. They had never thrown anything away...all the harness and tack for their 4-horse working team were still hanging in the horse barn like they were ready to go right back to work the next day. Quite a few old horse-drawn farm implements came with the place too, many of them modified to be towed behind a tractor later. Some outfit in PA came and bought it all ....apparently to restore and sell to the Amish.
 
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TPD said:
you get to know the ones that are responsible enough to operate machinery and those that are not.
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And...... I cross my fingers and toes that you made the right choice as that teen edges closer to my truck to drop off a load of pellets....


:lol: j/k. Your kids do fine.
 
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tuffenuff2 said:
When I was in Lowe's the other day it looked like a forklift had run into some drywall.
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An all, too, often occurrence. Lowe's does have "training" and certification, but you put someone inattentive or in a hurry in the seat, you get the above.
 
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LightRoasted said:
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I doubt it since it's a commercial operation, (more so industrial), where the forklift can be utilized inside a building to bring things out or bring things in. Pretty sure that designation is for operation of equipment used for farming. Such as driving a tractor, tilling, using a baler, fertilizer sprayer, bush hogging, etc.. Plus, forklifts require a solid flat surface, (the one shown in the picture anyway), in which to operate, not in places like farms with dirt roads. Forklifts do not like being at right angles, sideways, which this kid found out by the look of the pictures.
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I am unsure if Wentworth's is or isn't considered agricultural. If you go by what the mdmanual site says it may well be. "Today, agriculture in Maryland is diverse and includes not only crops, but also dairy and livestock, honey, horticulture and nurseries, poultry, and wineries and vineyards." I guess it might be established as to how the business is licensed.
 
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LightRoasted said:
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I doubt it since it's a commercial operation, (more so industrial), where the forklift can be utilized inside a building to bring things out or bring things in. Pretty sure that designation is for operation of equipment used for farming. Such as driving a tractor, tilling, using a baler, fertilizer sprayer, bush hogging, etc.. Plus, forklifts require a solid flat surface, (the one shown in the picture anyway), in which to operate, not in places like farms with dirt roads. Forklifts do not like being at right angles, sideways, which this kid found out by the look of the pictures.
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Forklifts dont like any excess weight outside of its center of gravity triangle.
 
Gilligan

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black dog said:
Forklifts dont like any excess weight outside of its center of gravity triangle.
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when I went to work at a landscape nursery after leaving the farm (age 16) I ran backhoes, loaders and one of these ag forklifts. That old JD would "lift more than it could carry" and some of the trees we'd dig to move would exceed the latter. Solution?...one of us would put the backhoe loader bucket on top of the weight box and apply enough down pressure to lift the front wheels of the backhoe off the ground. Then, using a carefully orchestrated and coordinated joint maneuver (lots of screaming, cussing and wild hand signals) we'd lift the big tree ball out of the hole and slowly move it to the appropriate storage area in the nursery. OSHA approved. Every once in a while someone would screw up and the backhoe bucket would slip off the weight box. For that reason we never carried the tree ball more than 6 inches off the dirt. Safety first, you know.

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Bare-ya-cuda

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I was operating a forklift at 13 when working at my dads shop. I did some stupid sheetz on them and never had an accident. They have a limit where they will tip over. I got right to the edge one day. Scared the sheets out of me.
 
black dog

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Gilligan said:
when I went to work at a landscape nursery after leaving the farm (age 16) I ran backhoes, loaders and one of these ag forklifts. That old JD would "lift more than it could carry" and some of the trees we'd dig to move would exceed the latter. Solution?...one of us would put the backhoe loader bucket on top of the weight box and apply enough down pressure to lift the front wheels of the backhoe off the ground. Then, using a carefully orchestrated and coordinated joint maneuver (lots of screaming, cussing and wild hand signals) we'd lift the big tree ball out of the hole and slowly move it to the appropriate storage area in the nursery. OSHA approved. Every once in a while someone would screw up and the backhoe bucket would slip off the weight box. For that reason we never carried the tree ball more than 6 inches off the dirt. Safety first, you know.

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Lol.. I have a 873 Bobcat, ive done stupid myself.
 
Gilligan

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black dog said:
Lol.. I have a 873 Bobcat, ive done stupid myself.
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I rolled a JD skid loader down a dirt bank once. 1 -1/2 revolutions. Good times...

My skilled operator had been at backfilling and grading a huge in-ground pool we were building, for about 6 hours straight, and was plain knackered and needed a break. I wanted to finish the grade work that day, called him a sissy, and jumped in to finished the job and rolled it neatly down the entire bank within about 15 minutes of getting in the seat.
 
NorthBeachPerso

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Not the same thing exactly, but I caught a backhoe on fire once. It wasn't really my fault, or the backhoe's. I had to cut into a 2 inch gas line that I had been assured was dead (even though I thought I could hear gas in it) because the crew chief had closed the valve. Turned out that sometime in the past someone had put a bypass leg on the line that went around the valve that nobody on the then current crew knew about. I torched into the line, there was a WHOOMP , a fireball, and the next thing you knew the backhoe was alight.

The 'hoe was also a "leaker" so the hydraulic fluid really got it going.
 
LightRoasted

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glhs837 said:
Not many, IIRC correctly, this took place in Japan quite a few years ago.
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Might have been in Australia as this is where the fellow's operating the site is from. The site shows 3 pictures of the incident. However, I wonder if the driver was wearing his seat belt? If not, I imagine that he went face first, really hard, into the lifting structure.

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