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Mac, if you don't have try and find yourself a good block that opens! Not one of those little ones either, nice big 6 or 8 inch pulley in it, even 5 is ok but bigger the better and has a threaded pin at the hook so you can easily by hand open it and put it on your winch line. It's one of those tools you might not need for six months then want six times in one day! Any way in that instance you can chain the block to the back of your bed then use your winch to slide the plates rearward. also works well for unloading dead iron that won't roll!

 

I asked for a snatch block last week after a crew thought a concrete barrier will just roll of my bed. I am going to show the pjcs so hopefully I can get one now.

 

I didn't have the terrain to allow me to do that. Damaging the roads we are suppose to be fixing is frowned upon. I wouldn't mind trying it though in our yard sometime to see.

I know when I pull forward to unload a container, it leaves marks in the road which essentially wash away I imagine.

In this case, if I knew I had to self unload, I would have let them overhang the back by a foot as I loaded myself.

I'm probably going to start letting everything overhang.

 

Mac, do you ever haul small forklifts on your rollback? The kind that the park brake wont hold it while tilted?

 

They have forklifts where the park brake works? Well don't that beat all? Now I have seen a few where the brakes actually work.

 

Homeward bound.



Are you tired of my lumber yet?

 

Not near as much as all that frozen white stuff in the background of all your pictures.....I get a chill everytime

 

My first job did but the customer made us winch up all their forklifts regardless.

Currently none of our broom/sweepers have park brakes that will hold the machine. But I have a remote, so once I get to the top, I hold the brakes and raise the bed. We have one backhoe that the regular brakes wontneven hold it in place, I winch that one up all the time.

edit: why, you got an old school trick for me?

 

I'm sure Truckdad will come along in a few minutes, and in the meantime I can tell you one problem with those little forklifts and wimpy parking brakes:

When you don't have a remote, you are standing on the ground and when you tilt your bed, the forklift rolls back enough to thighten the front chains, and you can't get them undone.

If you have a winch, there is no problem. Except when the forklift is on back, behind other machines, and now you need to figure out a way to run the winch cable without scratching everything up.

Of course, this situation only comes up when it's dark or raining (or both)!

 

Yeah kinda, When I used to haul the little lifts, I would run a chain across the deck with a binder on it about where the bend in the forks would be when loaded. Then back the lift up the deck, past the chain & slip the forks under the chain & let it roll down till the chain is holding it. No park brake required & quicker than throwing the winch on it.