Another Learning Experience

Sorry, shouldn't have let it hang like that. I was pinned with my foot being caught between the pallet and sidewall. It did bruise the hell out of it, and I just knew it had smashed it to a pulp. But, I got very lucky. Nothing broken. The most traumatic part of it was being pinned there, at the back of a business with nobody around. Cellphone was in the cab. Finally, the receiver decided to open up and unload me. Probably stuck there for 5-10 minutes, that seemed much longer. I missed a couple of days, and then we had a long weekend and I was back to work. Limping and bruised, but a bit more careful. (At least for a while...)

 

That would have actually been BETTER. At that time, our only lift gate was on a bobtail that was operated by somebody else!

But along those same lines, they tried to get the bobtail to pickup a load that was 4 pallets each one over 3000#. When he told them his lift gate wouldn't lift that weight, they argued with him. (Anybody who puts 3000# on a pallet that is handled with anything less than a fork lift should be taken out and shot, anyway. . .)

 

Sheesh...
What is the weight rating on your pallet jack? I used to know, but don't remember.

 

I dunno, but it seems like our were rated somewhere around 3K. But it's been a long time, and I'm likely wrong about that. I also seem to remember hearing that our liftgates were rated at 2500. But I never had occasion to question that.