"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
12/05/2018 at 23:30 • Filed to: forklift, boat, parking, parking is hard, fail
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"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
12/05/2018 at 23:30 • Filed to: forklift, boat, parking, parking is hard, fail | 4
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Think he’s learned it yet?
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And sorry about the narration. I couldn’t find a raw version of the video.
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boredalways
> Urambo Tauro
12/05/2018 at 21:46 |
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The lesson learned: both the fork truck driver and the person that issued a license to this moron should be fired.
Berang
> Urambo Tauro
12/05/2018 at 22:04 |
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don’t do drugs kids
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Urambo Tauro
12/05/2018 at 22:17 |
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Lesson I learnt: A boat and a forklift can be the same thing in the hands of a true master.
PyramidHat
> Urambo Tauro
12/05/2018 at 23:47 |
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I have a Hobie Cat that I used to store in the driveway. As it was light, I was able to simply let it rest on the foot underneath the tongue, and it would stay. One afternoon, I was doing some clean up work while sitting on the trampoline...as I progressed, I kept moving towards the stern ...until I was just behind the axle...which lifted the front end of the boat, causing it to roll into the street. I was able to stop before I hit anything. Beer may or may not have been involved...
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Urambo Tauro
12/05/2018 at 23:56 |
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I used to drive a forklift. Our loading dock was directly adjacent to the foreman’s office. We would come flying backwards out of a truck, stab the brakes, cut the wheel left, throw it into forward, stomp the gas, and the lift would drift sideways until it was pointing back toward the warehouse. When it got traction again, it would shoot down the aisle, ready to grab the next pallet. Mind you, we didn’t do this until we had a lot of experience behind the wheel.
So, about six months into the job, the foreman hired his nephew, “trained” him on how to drive the forklift, then cut him loose. This guy watched how we handled the lifts and thought he knew enough to try it himself. He ended up punching the back end of the lift through the foreman’s office wall.
He didn’t get fired and, despite our protests, he was still allowed to drive a lift.
A few weeks later, this guy decided to try pulling a pallet off the top of a four-pallet rack. Instead of asking for help when he hooked the pallet on the rack, he tried to force it. He brought down a full section with 6 tons of chemicals. The landed on him, on the pallets on the bottom and even damaged some pallets on the other side of the aisle. That’s when upper management stepped in. As soon as he had the salvageable material restacked, they let him go. I think everyone was thankful he didn’t get himself killed.
TLDR: Some people shouldn’t drive forklifts.
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Urambo Tauro
> PyramidHat
12/06/2018 at 00:06 |
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Yikes. G ood save!
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Urambo Tauro
12/06/2018 at 02:22 |
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oops.
Monkey B
> Urambo Tauro
12/06/2018 at 08:47 |
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this hurts my brain...
Quadradeuce
> Urambo Tauro
12/06/2018 at 08:53 |
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Unrelated, I'm going to go check the wheel chocks on my boat, which is parked right next to the SS....
functionoverfashion
> Urambo Tauro
12/06/2018 at 09:20 |
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I worked at a marina for a bunch of years, and one time I had a 19' ski boat on a trailer that I was planning to pull out of the area behind the shop, using a truck - we used tractors more often, but I was taking it off site. It was basically flat where it was parked, but it did start to go downhill, toward a boathouse. You can guess what happened. It was late in the day and I was getting married that weekend, my mind was elsewhere. I kicked out the wheel chock before getting the truck lined up. The boat didn’t move. I shook it to be sure. Then i
t moved. I immediately tried to stop it with my hands (like the guy in the video) but of course the grade increased and the boat accelerated. No one else was nearby. I tried to deflect it, to turn it around the corner but it was a dual axle trailer, I had no chance
. It rolled about 30 feet across the yard and I was
still trying to stop it
when the tongue of the trailer smashed through a door to the boathouse. I went through the opening created by the trailer, and then it hit the door jamb which was strong enough to stop the boat. The tongue jack stopped inside the boathouse about 4" short of going off the dock and onto the boat that was in there. I was shaking and could barely speak when I realized what had really happened. Somehow I was not injured.
That was 10 years ago and it still kind of sets the bar as one of the dumbest things anyone ever did there. Maybe not worse than putting the forklift in the river (not me). I only later told my wife how close I was to spending our wedding day in the hospital.