The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

Yall can call it watever ya want , i call it the machine that gets me paid !! Come on!!

 

i hate it when guys say "oh the forklift will be with ya" and a telehandler shows up. Yeah, that's not a forklift.

also was at a construction project and they had a HUGE one, just popped off these 35,000lb concrete boxes like nothing. I asked the guy and he said rated at like 70,000lbs. It was huge. (oh look i did take a picture)

 

It has forks and it lifts

 

im a big fan of those big forklifts that they load steel beams or heavy ####. it take 1 hr for the small forks to load the trailer and u show up at the site and they just take the whole load off in 2 loads.. takes longer to get paperwork signed. makes me very happy flatbedder

 

This here is Bertha, the only real issue with her is she can't clear a deck in one pick forks are 6 feet long.

 

Yeah, they make those hysters big. That and silent hoist I've seen. Ever seen one with an extendable rear axle/counterweight?

 

he had chains over and side to side,paired chains hooked on top to the deck, one around the back , and a pair from the lower flange to the front of the trailer.
The belts were there to add extra w.w.l to the rear. Because the trailer is aluminum he only uses 3/8 gr70 chain because the attachment points are rated at 5500# or 6600# for pullups.
The bunk he is using is a modified front 5 or 6 feet of a trailer with d rings mounted.
The only thing I/we did different was to run crossed chains between the bunk and trailer and a loop around the front

 

Forklift we used to test low overhead piledriving ideas in San Francisco.

 

There’s a fan shop on the south side of Columbus that has two identical to that. Older than most of us I would imagine

 

Remember when we went to make a Xerox? Now we call it a photocopy. Xerox was the first.

Same as the Pettibone. First to the market.