Blazemaster
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- Joined
- Oct 13, 2009
- Location
- Olympia, Wa
I helped a good friend move a new machine yesterday into his garage. He has zero experience moving machine tools so asked me to help. We originally wanted to get my forklift over there but had trouble finding the correct trailer to haul it, so he just ended up renting a forklift. Mine is a Cat from about 1993, the one he rented was a much newer Toyota. I only have experience with the lifts I have owned. His move went just fine but it showed up in a box truck with a lift gate and I had to drag half the machine out and lower it with half on the forks, and half on the liftgate(only a 2k lb machine, 4ft wide by 9 ft long crate).
While we were doing the move, every time I would take my foot off the gas the lift would come out of gear and would be in neutral even though the shifter was still in gear. It made the move much more herky jerky than it needed to be. The truck driver mentioned that newer lifts do that because of some safety device installed. I also noticed that when I used the tilt lever it seemed like there was some safety device on it as well. Also made for a herky jerky experience. This looked like a well taken care of machine, so I can't imagine something was screwed up on it, but after all it was a rental.
Is this normal or was the oil low etc.? It just seemed like the bullshit safety device made it more dangerous, if that was the case. The whole time I was just wishing I was on my old, all analog machine.
While we were doing the move, every time I would take my foot off the gas the lift would come out of gear and would be in neutral even though the shifter was still in gear. It made the move much more herky jerky than it needed to be. The truck driver mentioned that newer lifts do that because of some safety device installed. I also noticed that when I used the tilt lever it seemed like there was some safety device on it as well. Also made for a herky jerky experience. This looked like a well taken care of machine, so I can't imagine something was screwed up on it, but after all it was a rental.
Is this normal or was the oil low etc.? It just seemed like the bullshit safety device made it more dangerous, if that was the case. The whole time I was just wishing I was on my old, all analog machine.