This dude doesn't work at my store, nor any other Sam's Club. He'd be overqualified to be a manager. 
This dude doesn't work at my store, nor any other Sam's Club. He'd be overqualified to be a manager.
damn... the lifts I drove would have never let me get the coin on the forks. His look -very- sharp
Not gonna lie... Even when I ran a fork truck everyday I couldn't pick up a coin, much less deposit it in a bottle that well. Heck half the time I couldn't load a semi without unpacking it to redistribute the weight.
No fork discussion is complete without Klaus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo
dayum
That should be a requirement to get a license.
seen it before and still amazing... even more so with that HUGE fork truck... I learned on little ones (typical warehouse type) and know I couldn't do that
Forkin' A...
cool
wonder if he had a spotter
So, how much time did he spend practicing that trick when he was supposed to be working? And yeah, someone had to help spot him. Looks like you'd have trouble seeing the end of the fork from the cab, and it'd be impossible to ever see that bottle. Still pretty cool.
Even with a spotter it's no less impressive.
Gearheadotaku wrote: No fork discussion is complete without Klaus!
LOL classic! And they say Germans aren't funny.
He picked up the coin using the "tiddly wink" principle, which is pretty much exactly how I expected him to having never seen the video before but having run a fork lift and knowing how they work. I'm pretty sure any of us with moderate folk-lift experience could do that with some practice. Dropping the coin into the bottle, however, was impressive. Even more so given the size of the thing.
When I was a kid, my dad had a fork lift sale and repair business. I grew up on them, and by 18 was driving a 25,000 lb cat yard truck in a lumber mill. There wasn't much I (and most of the yard guys I worked with) hadn't learned to do by that time. We used to do stuff like that all the time.
I can pick up a coin. Several other tricks (I occasionally participate in forklift Olympics- competitions between companies to promote safety)
Never tried a bottle, don't think I will. That would consume way too much time.
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