Thanks for this video. I’ve always wondered how they got those high-mast reach trucks & order pickers in a warehouse bldg with normal height dock doors.
I saw two get delivered to my workplace. The truck they were delivered on had a crane on the back. Dropped it off on its side in a regular loading door, then backed into the warehouse through the big boy door
At mine the extended mast ones came in without the masts installed as they were too tall for any external door. They used a bigger forklift and installed it inside.
So order pickers are only any good if you already own two forklifts! The guy that didnt have two forlifts found that out the hard way when his low box arrived!
The video should have shown the logistics manager refusing delivery and calling up the Raymond rep saying "I just spend 30k and you idiots send it to me on it's side?"
Boxhawk: That lift has a 10 to 12 foot lowered mast. It won't go in to the back of a semi trailer standing up. (Or a standard dock door). All manufacturers have to lay lifts that size down for transportation.
This is a great video on what never to do. Rigging, personnel placement, torque impact on the rigging straps, running the forks through the strap eyes, etc, etc, etc.
This process had the potential to go sideways. Literally. The supervisor or whoever was in the squash me zone. Because the one with straps didn’t stay directly over the load, it had the potential to pull that one over also. ( unless it was much larger)
The one I drive is 5 tons, and sized to fit in smaller 12-pallet capacity box trucks...neatly; be less of a tight fit if the safety strobe was underslung rather than top-mounted like a top hat...but, meh.
Yeah, the OP i drive is 8 tons, you wouldnt think it would be the slightest bit heavier than a car, until someone crashes it into an isle and it bends a whole section of solid metal in simply going like 4 to 5mph
I've never seen these delivered nose down. They're usually laying on side fully crated which makes for safer raising. Raising from front to back is too much distance and invites accidents. Side lifting only has 4 feet of width so is less margin for error.
There is nothing anymore or less safe doing it either way. Ive done thousands of them over the last 20 year both ways and it really just comes down to making sure the rigging you use won't come apart mid lift and that you go slow. Either way its still nerve wrecking to lift a new unit in front of the inevitable audience that gathers around
@@sonnieandjacob I was nearby when the rigging Fell apart on one being lifted. Thankfully It was almost to the ground, and there was no Damage done to it, It just made a bit louder Thud
@@miklomorales4768 we use a 6000lb counterbalance. Lift straight up and ride the brakes as it starts to pull you forward. Once it’s upright, cut the banding and use the mast of the counter balance to lay down the cradle.
I am a Raymond technician and that is not a video worth putting up .as a safe method to lift a order picker it worked but has probability for failure. if crate plate broke there goes the new truck or if forklift with strap lean forward😲
And I am service technician in Belgium, about 30 years now, from Toyota BT and this is NOT the correct way. The got lucky that the wooden blocks beside the mast don't slips away when they tilting the machine over his dead point. Normally the forklift, an the right side, always have contact with the order picker and even lift the machine of the surface ... hanging freely of ground when they tip over. And the forklift on the left must always have the straps under tension, never get them loose and that is why the machine suddenly and unsuspected tilting over leaning on the wooden blocs ... :( They both make a mistake This was ... terrifying and nearby ... As my dear collega, Raymond technician, Jorge Garcia already told. This could have been gone wrong, they just got lucky
Thing is they probably were never told how to stand them up or how to do it so they just did what told get it up so did whatever idea they could come up with. They were probably never given instructions from the makers how and their boss since never were told how came up with this idea.
Toyota tech with 30 years under my belt. Spent the last 3 weeks standing up OME's and this is not the way to do it. No back up if anything goes sideways. Putting your trust in some crusty knotted slings and a few bits of timber.
How unsafe is their way of top and tailing a VNA machine, yes the machine is a lightweight compared with some I install, a large truck 4 ton plus, with a job, and a crane on the other is the only safe way.
Forklift on the left should've lowered his fork significantly (effectively shortening the strap whatever way). The way he did it he objected himself to a lot of leverage.
@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 I wasn't clear enough, sorry. I mean the straps on the left forklift should've been much shorter, so the forklift could keep his forks much closer to the attachment points on the OP. Of course he would always need to keep the straps in tension. I guess they had to avoid the OP's operator roof with the forklift's forks, but I don't know why they opted to go higher rather than lower. Maybe they just didn't have the right length of straps available.
@@MrSaemichlaus Fair enough. Considering that they didn't have a proper material hoist for this job, it's possible they didn't have the correct length of strap, either.
U are lucky... work under risk ..Reach truck BT is very good, can dismental mast ... raymond R&D must do something for good and safety machine installation at customer site or outdoor...
This is how we do it.must have installed over a dozen of these... and at least 6 swing reaches.many comments stating unsafe,osha crap.....well how else would you stand it up??????
Right? If it works, and nothing happened. Perfectly fine. If something were to happen, oh well, fix it or order another. OSHA cant be an excuse for everything, especially getting out or work or costing someone more money..
So, NO claim to have ever worked in warehouse envirn, But I have ridden on a man lift, which is essentially a moving belt, with places to grab , and rest ur ft,
I’ve stood up many of these that was totally 100% the incorrect way of doing it the right fork lift should have continued lift until it was almost vertical the the two let it down evenly
Is the rudeness really necessary? Swear words just show the inability of a language. And that we all know come from not the sharpest pencils. I just had to mention it.
I have stood up and laid down dozens of Raymond Reach, order pickers and swing reaches. This is definitely NOT the correct way. WOW! I've seen sales man do better this.
All they had to do was put a chain around the mast of the forks raising it and attach it to the crate. Then there would have been no chance of it slamming to the ground. They got lucky if you ask me.
That's a ridiculous statement. Would you prefer they rush the job and let the machine slip and slam into the ground? (Of course, this isn't the correct way to stand up a machine like that in the first place, but that's besides the point.)
Thanks for this video. I’ve always wondered how they got those high-mast reach trucks & order pickers in a warehouse bldg with normal height dock doors.