Sell me a forklift

[deadshank 24654]

Anyone of you meatheads in the construction equipment business?  I need a new forklift for my warehouse as my old one done laid down on me.

This is in Houston.

Do tell.

 

 

Edited March 17, 2021 by deadshank
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[TexMex Horn 68]

My advise, why buy new?

[TexMex Horn 68]

I've only owned 2 in 22 years. Both were used.

[deadshank 24654]

21 minutes ago, TexMex Horn said:

My advise, why buy new?

I have a used one.  It is over 20 years old.  

I want to repair it and keep it.  

And buy a new or very near new model. 

[Jkwellborn 7037]

I wouldn’t buy one like we have at work. I’ll check the serial number tomorrow. They fucking suck

[markstanco 12788]

I went through this 2 years ago, and got a Toyota.

The local dealers all dropped off their model for a test drive by my warehouse guys. 3 dealers. I let the warehouse manager pick what he liked.

Less visual interference with the Toyota was what he liked over the Nissan (they go by some other name now).

[Jkwellborn 7037]

What dealer did you go through for yours Stanco?

[deadshank 24654]

16 hours ago, markstanco said:

I went through this 2 years ago, and got a Toyota.

The local dealers all dropped off their model for a test drive by my warehouse guys. 3 dealers. I let the warehouse manager pick what he liked.

Less visual interference with the Toyota was what he liked over the Nissan (they go by some other name now).
 

Datsun??

[markstanco 12788]

6 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

What dealer did you go through for yours Stanco?

Lift Truck Supply.  

[markstanco 12788]

3 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Datsun??

Ha... I just looked it up, UniCarriers.

[markstanco 12788]

Also OP, make sure you can turn the speed down.  They come from the factory set at warp speed. I turned them down to 7 mph and the warehouse guys still hit pallet racks.  

This was a few years ago, and he got fired.  OSHA LOVES when you drive around with the lift raised all the way to the top.  The forks hit the rolled up overhead door, so it didnt make 2 holes in the door, it made 8 holes.  Play close attention to the camera how it shakes.  The camera is a good ways away, it is on the opposite side of a 10,000 Sq Ft warehouse. 

 

[deadshank 24654]

1 hour ago, markstanco said:

Also OP, make sure you can turn the speed down.  They come from the factory set at warp speed. I turned them down to 7 mph and the warehouse guys still hit pallet racks.  

This was a few years ago, and he got fired.  OSHA LOVES when you drive around with the lift raised all the way to the top.  The forks hit the rolled up overhead door, so it didnt make 2 holes in the door, it made 8 holes.  Play close attention to the camera how it shakes.  The camera is a good ways away, it is on the opposite side of a 10,000 Sq Ft warehouse. 

 

That has already happened to me.  One of my guys "forgot" the forks were all the way up and completely demolished a roll up door.

$15/hour guy cost $3,800.00.  That's 253.33 work hours.  6.33 forty-hour work weeks.  

He doesn't work here anymore.

 

 

[markstanco 12788]

That has already happened to me.  One of my guys "forgot" the forks were all the way up and completely demolished a roll up door.
$15/hour guy cost $3,800.00.  That's 253.33 work hours.  6.33 forty-hour work weeks.  
He doesn't work here anymore.
 
 

How TF that is possible is beyond me. I can guarangotdamntee you I have more on my mind when I get on the lift than he did. Nice kid, the nicest. But common sense even with that dumb osha training went out the door. Or in the door. Whatever.

[markstanco 12788]

That has already happened to me.  One of my guys "forgot" the forks were all the way up and completely demolished a roll up door.
$15/hour guy cost $3,800.00.  That's 253.33 work hours.  6.33 forty-hour work weeks.  
He doesn't work here anymore.
 
 

Ha, we think similar on work hours vs cost.

I fired a credit manager that continued to show up 5, 10, 15 minutes late and would justify by taking half a lunch for a while. I sat her down on the final warning and explained 15 minutes each day is the equivalent of 1.5 weeks of vacation and is that fair for the company for her to do that. She didn't get the math, and a few weeks later she rolled in at 815 and went home at 820. 28 year old single mom who got a mile of rope but never got it.

[Jkwellborn 7037]

Lift Truck Supply.  

That’s who we use. That guy in the video is a dipshit. He never even looked up at the forks until he hit.

[markstanco 12788]

That’s who we use. That guy in the video is a dipshit. He never even looked up at the forks until he hit.

That female mechanic came in to replace the forks with some a little longer when we bought it. She threw both of them over her shoulders and walked 200 feet like that.

Her girlfriend must be proud.

[markstanco 12788]

That’s who we use. That guy in the video is a dipshit. He never even looked up at the forks until he hit.

More of a dipshit for lack of awareness on COG and keeping them 2 feet off the ground after training.

[Parliament 14598]

I've only owned 2 in 22 years. Both were used.

We aren't talking about your butt plug.

[conVINCEd 21477]

I had a job the summer before my freshman year driving a forklift at the warehouse of a large furniture retailer.  It paid $2 more per hour than anything else I could find.  I received about 15 minutes of training from a guy that I am pretty sure was a serial child molester.  Warehouse had 4 levels.  2nd day on the job I got a ticket to pull a large China cabinet off of the 4th level.  Dropping a very heavy object made of wood and glass from 30 feet makes a much louder noise than you would think it would.  Thought I was gonna get fired, but nobody cared.  That’s all I got about forklifts.

[RPM 26628]

BIL owns a fabrication business and runs nothing but Toyota forklifts. They last forever.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2779]

I need a new battery for ours.