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<body class='hmmessage'>Hi Everyone,<BR>
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I agree - based upon the pics shared here today, it looks pretty mean and I wouldn't want to get in the way of one if it were loaded.<BR>
Four wheel steering? That couldn't be very easy to manipulate even if you have experience.<BR>
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I have driven my share of forklifts loaded with lumber and wood stock and those are bad enough.<BR>
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Thanks for the leads!!<BR>
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Don Smith<BR>
Mesa, AZ<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:22:49 -0700<BR>> From: lechevrier@earthlink.net<BR>> To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] lumber carrier - no gen<BR>> <BR>> Leslie Chapman wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >I think one of the reasons they aren't seem much any more is they were fairly dangerous. <BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> And another would be that your basic forklift (jitney) is way more <BR>> versatile, i.e., higher resale value, and less expensive as an initial <BR>> investment and they now come in large industrial sizes. Those rigs were <BR>> built for one job, and one job only and they just aren't any good for <BR>> much else, although I know someone who is trying to use one to handle a <BR>> Bonneville land speed record car. (to turn it around at the end of the <BR>> first run -- a very serious big record attempt)<BR>> <BR>> I know of a story, probably true, out of Hyster, that they were able to <BR>> meet some government bid spec for the things by switching over to <BR>> Michelin radials -- faster, better fuel mileage, I don't recall -- it <BR>> was what sold me on radial tires Back When.<BR>> <BR>> Bill Strickland<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> or-roots mailing list<BR>> or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR><BR></body>
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