Your rack build came out good. In the future whether building racks or other steel fixtures some tips to keep you safe, both of which were listed below. But they are important! I will also point a couple other helpful hints. A- NEVER EVER WELD ON MACHINERY FORKS. The only way you can salvage them now is contact the manufacturer to recommend cutting them down to a safe over all length behind your welded stops. In fact if they won't give you the procedure, you may have to hire it out to a specialty shop. If a stop is needed, you can always grab a couple C-clamps to clamp onto the forks. Holes in the tips of forks should be drilled, not flame cut if don't have any other way to secure the load. But this alteration is another one of those modifications that are supposed to be supported by the manufacturer of the forks. ☹ B- Gloves and long sleeves while running rotating power tools is also a no no. Individuals everywhere have lost fingers from gloves quickly pulling them into a spinning shaft or other moving tools. You can't react fast enough to stop the accident. ☹ B2- Long loose sleeves are an accident just waiting to happen. Many a iron workers, machinist and others have lost and arm or badly mangled from getting loose clothing tangled with rotating shafts. The most common one is the drill press. Wear tight sleeved shirts or pull them up. C- You could have picked the rack up by padding on the forks or around the top crossbar and hoist from it. As you elevated the load you could inch it up allowing the bottom to move back to move the center of gravity in line with the point where it is hanging from the forks, then the unit until is setting on the foot rails. D- You may have already added these but small stops at the end of the arms will keep materials (especially round) from falling from the tips of the arms. I hope you take the comments here as suggestions to help you be safe, save you money and make more great videos. The last thing we want to see or read is a bad accident that someone has had from something they did not know about. Good luck and thanks for sharing.
I appreciate you taking the time to list these out man! I never went to trade school or worked in a welding shop so a lot of these 'common sense' tips I've never heard of to be honest. I had a hospital visit last year that based on similar glove comments I've concluded was the problem. Gonna loose those and the long sleeves for the next build. I cut the welded stubs off the forks and drilled holes for pins I made which seems to work better, but agree those forks are toast now... going to be for 'experimental implements' lol and only used for light stuff. I have a second pair I won't touch for the heavy stuff. Cheers Joe thx for the intel to help me improve 🤙
Sir, you have a mag drill, If you drill a hole in the tip of your fork lift forks and make a small (short, not skinny) round bar with a washer half way, you have an easily removable stop. You can then also use the fork lift to move trailers etc. We use 30mm round stock for an upright, but inch will do I think.
could also just get a forklift trailer hitch attachment for $40 that slides on if you don't wanna make a hole in the fork. I use one every day to move our trailer in and out of our space.
@@trissnake1118 yah that would work too, it's on my list was just impatient and too fired up to get this thing up to look around for one so took the shortcut and welded em on 😂 will pay for that later with angle grinder time lol
@@trissnake1118 I have never seen someone use one 'in the wild', that's probably why I didn't mention it, I also wouldn't know where to get one 🙂 But if it's designed for it, it's probablier easier and/or safer.
Really cool build, looks like it will be really useful. With quality builds like this I can see this channel growing quickly. Just a random suggestion, it is really common for people to get motion sickness when watching video footage from head-mounted cameras, so you may want to consider limiting that type of footage to not turn off potential viewers as your channel grows.
I really appreciate a comment like that, I enjoy making them it's much more work than I anticipated, gotta keep with it. That's a great suggestion. I'm blind to that for some reason but have seen people comment that in other videos. Will keep that in mind on the next one thx for the support my friend
by looking at your mag drill purchase I am assuming that you are in Canada , depends on province , here in B.C. when you weld on to the hardened forks of your forklift they are now garbage according to WCB , but a bolt on bracket is ok .
It's just all around bad practice to weld onto or drill into forklift forks. Building a simple fork extension channel that slips over the tine and heel of the fork is the safer route. That way you can weld uprights to it for different types of lifts or for moving trailers.
I wish I could get the comments before the builds lol.. I didn't know this but appreciate the intel. Makes sense because of the hardened steel they use. I got a second pair of untouched ones that will be the main lifting ones... these will now be.. experimental lol. Cheers!
@@mikewieggers6337 that was always my plan just didn't wanna delay the project any further so got lazy... I've now welded and drilled into this set (wish I could see comments before building lol) so now designating them as 'experimental implement forks' that I make attachments for and only ever lift a light weight. Have a second clean pair for heavy stuff. Appreciate the feedback Mike cheers 🤛
Tip from a professional Ironworks, get the damn gloves off when operating machinery. I have personally watched people lose digits when the glove got caught.
I had a finger accident with the bench grinder last year and couldn't decide if the glove caused the problem or protected me in the end 😭 I appreciate the trade secret gonna loose them going forward 👍
@@UncleStevesWorkshopWhile we’re safety policing, my broken hand always recommends using the chain that comes with the mag drill so it can’t spin out of control if it breaks loose. The chain is stronger than my metacarpals.
I do have a suggestion for you - keep the extra ‘music’ to a minimum. I would much rather hear the sounds of the shop with all of your comments and tips etc. On other channels after a couple of minutes of non-essential music -I click off and go to another channel.
It's hard working alone for a few days with no music lol but I appreciate that feedback my girlfriend said the same - will keep that more in mind on the next one 🤙
