The what not to do bit... you'll end up driving that way with experience. It's not dangerous or unsafe. We have 10 operators that put between 1000 to 1400 pallets away every night where I work in 4-6 hours. We average 0 to 1 accidents a year. We train the new guys (and gals) very well to work fast and safe.
@@porkybitz Ive been driving like this (turning and lifting at the same time) and I never dropped a single in my entire life.Its not hard to do and its much easier and faster imo.
Joshua Seymour so one of the biggest cost for a warehousing company is rent or real estate. As such they hire engineers to maximize space usage. That's engineers may not have any idea of how a forklift operates. The design looks nice on paper but causes lots of problem for machine operators and becomes very dangerous for pedestrians 🚶. Unfortunately this industry only REACTS to ACCIDENTS as compared to TAKING A PROACTIVE APPROACH. Please stay safe!
You have not showing how to steer the machine I was used to the older machines and they turn left for the right right for the left I didn't get the because I though all Raymond's was the but thank you it's was a good job paying 19 an hour hi lo drivers
I broke my fucken left tibia plateau on a reach 8 months no work can't wait to go back and drive it, I was a dumbass and turned sharp and lost control and stuck my leg out ahhaha
Raymond tech here, what you should also mention is a feature called "plugging" (I didn't hear it referenced in your video, but thought it could be useful for your viewers). Plugging means to slow down / brake using the control lever, you pull the control lever in the opposite direction. So if you're going forward, to slow down / stop efficiently, pull back the stick as if you're changing directions. DO NOT STEP OFF THE DEADMAN TO BRAKE UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY. You'll flat-spot the wheels, otherwise. It's also not good for the drive motor.
Do you mind if I ask how to change the performance mode on the 8210 EPJ? I work at Walmart and our Raymond jack moves so damn slow that I've taken to using the walkie stackers to pull heavy pallets out to the sales floor. For some reason, they are set to a higher speed. After doing some research, I thought I found out how to do it. After I tried going through the process at work (hold down horn, turn key, etc.) I noticed no change in speed. If you know more, please enlighten me. By the way, according to the company policy pertaining to Powered Lifting Equipment (PLE), such actions are not prohibited. Wer are only restricted from chaining keys to the equipment and installing attachments on the forks.
@@theman-ox3cw you actually need the programming software to change the presets, as well as a CAN bus adapter with appropriate interface. Ours cost $1,400 each. Unfortunately there’s not really a way of getting around that by using the control handle as you can find instructions on online. The programming software itself is only issued to Raymond Techs. Also, when Walmart orders jacks they come set from the factory. When the tech arrives to do the install when a new jack comes in, they are supposed to verify the speed is set correctly. There’s not a single tech I know, myself included, who would risk their job to speed the jacks up. I don’t want to get preachy, but you can thank your fellow associates for why nobody can have fast jacks. Some of the stuff I’ve seen people do, and the sheer damage they cause, I understand Walmart limiting the speeds.
Reach is the best experience anyone forklift operator can have . Once you master how to use a reach, you become more valuable to a warehouse . Top master skills for aways needed warehouse issues. 1. Double stand up reach any brand 2. Order picker any brand 3. Swing truck any brand Everything anybody can learn , but the ones on top tskes super foucs , good speed pace and good material handler pace . I would have put the pacer in there but , sadly most places dont use because people have a hard time using them . So most warehouse stick to E jacks or basic sit down forklifts. In my warehouse we only have 1 pacer pretty insane of u ask me and have 2 propane tank forklifts and they are slow , useless and take forever to unload or load a truck , compared to a pacer . Which i might bring up to the GM but im still kinda new so i wait . Sometimes the forklift operator knows more then the people buying the machiens for work.
I worked at Sara Lee warehouse in Pennsylvania. I drove a Raymond acr reach truck for five years. Great lifts. Ours had a height scale on them and it top rack was at 360 inches. Racks so tight you had to not only turn to lower the load, but also had to turn the forks into the pallets to pick them of the rack.
What my comment referred to was instead of calling the control fine tuning, forks moving side to side is referred to in the owners manual as sideshift, and the fine tuning of “tipping” the forks is called fork tilt. I drove one of these units for several years and have always referenced this control that way.
I turn and lift at the same time and it's not dangerous, been doing it for 16 years now. Our aisles dont have enough room for you to line up in front of it, lift, pull your load out and then turn. You have to pull out , turn and lower all at the same time.
So its better to learn narrow aisle instead of seated I guess. I am pretty sure most places that use forklifts will use narrow aisle (ex gocery store).Thank you for the video. You explain well.
Raymond - I have been repairing and operating this type of forklift for more than 30 years. I noticed a few small mistakes in operation and English but I really enjoyed your skill and your pride in your work.
Been looking at Raymond PIT videos because my new job uses this brand. I've been driving crown pit for 14 years their a little different but same concept.
The new Crowns are so much smoother and faster, for both driving and lifting/lowering the forks. That thing looks jerky as hell. Not to mention they look so much nicer, Raymonds look like grandmas beat up old station wagon next to a crown. But put all that aside, Crowns actually have a seat to sit on that can fold away so you can stand just in case you don't feel like being lazy one day. That alone should make it far superior.
I weld for Crown, never operated one, but ours are definitely the best. I bet half the welds on that truck will crack in a year. Probably use Millers or something
That is the right way but the pace these companies set for you to work you can't be as fast as the workers who are selecting you will not be able to drop 30 pallets an hour or put up 30 pallets an hour even if it took you 2 min a pallet so you would be more like 20 pallets an hour but on production at most jobs 20 pallets an hour is minimum on the production scale
I jumped off an FLT just as it was coming to a stop ... it carried on going slightly longer than expected & almost crushed my ankle. It got to the beginning of pain level. When I was new to driving them. Steel toe-caps did not protect my ankle
I drive a Raymond reach but the controls are set up to drive it with the forks behind you.It is a great machine.My years of driving order pickers and sit down forklifts helped me adapt to it quickly.I prefer crown sit down forklifts but the Raymond reach is a very smooth operating machine.
Just for future reference, are the reach trucks & even OP's from different brands, such as Jungheinrich, have any major differences in configurations of the basic operations (i.e. controls)? Or or are they all about the same?
5 years too late, but maybe this comment will help someone lol, but imo there's a massive amount of differences in controls for different brands of reach truck e.g. Raymond vs Crown vs Toyota/BT etc....joysticks, levers and finger levers are the most popular three, but theres probably more around, even different models in the same brand can have entirely different controls ( e.g. Toyota/bt reach's can have either big levers or finger levers, no idea if they have joystick models too lol)
I know I've asked before but for someone who has never operated one them selves goes and test in order to get the job do you think it is possible for someone to pass first time ever trying based off videos
yes, you explained that correctly: you don't want to turn with the load in the air, that's helicoptoring and is unsafe because it can cause the truck to tip, it's outside of its stability triangle. It isn't worth your life or someone else's.
Go to a homedepot and look at some of the aisles the drivers work in. 99% of the time you are lining up sideways and pivoting the forks 90 degrees into the pallet with an inch of space between your back and the shelf.
Perfect, Raymond. Thank you. I have no experience with these yet own other forklifts. I am getting 1 or 2 of these for removing panels in a large paint booth and needed a quick how-to course. You did a great job.
hahha ud b scared as hell workin wit me. my work place our squad always do 'what not to do'. We finish work in less than 6 hrs we work 12 hrs. Only our squad tho no1 can go as fast as us. Ppl who left our shift were like gods to other workplace forklift drivers. Also our aisles our as wide as the forklift lentgh no inches to spare and we still dont hit n get the alarm. We can finish a truck in less than 20 mins picking and have it staged n everything.
My job is the same way we have a 60 million ton freezer and there's only 3 of us sometimes we will do 40 trucks in a shift. And there's a few aisles that there is no room to turn then go up. And what company does this guy work for that they have all the time in the world to load a truck? We get 45 min maybe an hour and that's to locate drill scan and load a truck.
ReggLocc tha Wizard Tillwill I was worried before I took the test as well but then I looked around at all the idiots I work with and told myself if they can do it then I definitely can lol.
I don't recommend operator this machine without supervised experience operator or trainer, steering is tricky . With proper practise on average most people should be pass a test with in a a few hours, providing the trainer know how to teach
Raymond - You are pretty good but remember to think about tilting. I think you should do the video again with a script shared by you and the cameraman.
good point regarding tilt ,from my limited experience as a new driver .. tilt can get a driver really in the shit if used incorrectly when doing putaways/letdowns into and out the racking!!
I'm at walmart dc. I've been certified for the rc3000 in the first week I started. I was fairly comfortable and excited while learning to operate that. This, on the other hand seems daunting. Just like there, at walmart the bins have no rack where the pallet would be placed but only one beam in the front and one beam in the back. My question to you is how does one get over the fear of dropping a pallet in between the two beams? I mean if one does what you did step by step, will they make production? Taking it slow does look less dangerous though.
moTastic4 I just transferred from Sams club bro operating rc crown lifts the rr's have only two different functions but it was weird operating today. I did good after a few hours but you'll have 8-10 weeks to meet 95% production speed will come in that time you will just wanna get the turning radius and controls down first.. Going to the top rack btw scary af was being empty stacks of pallets from top slot all day still shaky af doing that lll
How long did it take you to master the steering wheel on the reach? It's like you're your steering in opposite direction s when driving in reverse you know the counterclockwise motion.
I think that is where I may have an advantage because I have experience sailing and the rear wheel could be thought of as being a rudder, and as a sailor would understand that when they sail into the wind the boat goes backwards and they have to steer into the opposite direction (helm over) until they start going forwards and then they must helm over again to recover the previous course. So if you think of the steering as being like the steering on a sailboat it will all make sense.
the raymond pacers are the same way and it took me a few weeks to get it down. now i take turns at full speed, moving to the reach wasnt as hard as it was for some new operators
I know it was not a question for me, but it takes a day or two to learn the reach steering. It gets funny when I am jumping on different trucks, cb, and reach etc, sometimes, when i go on a counter balance after long time not driving it, I get the steering wrong, and correct it immediately... It feels really stupid tho...
What is the Isle dimension? we consider using this Raymond Reach in our warehouse but not sure how much space it would save, we currently use Toyota 7FGCU25 Thanks
My job has a lot of 40year old who complain because we got forced to learn the Raymond over the basic sit down Toyota,Yale,hyster, the reverses steering takes time to get used to
They both do the same job. It's a matter of choice as with any other thing. Someone would want to operate a Caterpillar machine and the other a JohnDeer. Or a BMW vs Benz. So it depends on what lift truck is available at your warehouse.
I work for Hobby Lobby Warehouse in Oklahoma and I took my test training on the forklift, I could not get the forklift it’s so complicated and we only get one night to train on that machine, so my trained had me train on the Order picker for a few minutes and I loved the order picker a lot more than the forklift, it’s more complicated than the order picker, I got confused once I got into the actual isle.... picking up the pallet in the blue steel!!!!!! I couldn’t get it, and the steering on the fork lift is so much more complicated
I work in home depot they train you for 30 minutes throw you on there and then you basically teach yourself.So if anyone wants free training work for lumber dept.If you damage something you wont be in big trouble then you would a big warehouse.
