![]() We backed up a few feet with the engine on the forks then I lowered it to the ground as quickly as could be safely done The pickup was more than enough to keep the loader from tipping. I told him to watch my instructions and slowly drive backwards when I signaled that ZI had the load raised. So I drove my pickup up against the back of the skid steer and chained ti down to the front bumper. Yes and hopefully not get anyone injured or killed in the process or damage the engine I said. But we have to get this engine off my truck he said If you do then you will have to find someone else to operate it I said. At the time the only machine I had at my disposal to unload trhe engine was a skid steer with a fork attachment At the height or the trailer I knew I could lift the engine but I also knew I would not have enough counter weight to lower it to the ground I told the driver this and he said I'll just stand on the back of your machine. I was getting ready to unload a palletized equipment engine from the side of a flatbed trailer. Using human counter weights is never a good idea but sometimes it may seem to be the only alternative at the time The GIF dimensions 200 x 200px was uploaded by anonymous user. This was in the late 60's before video was so popular. Open & share this gif transparent, loading, with everyone you know. Then the back crashed down again, at which point the machine broke in the middle. This then caused the remaining bricks to drag the front back down, which broke the rest of the bindings and more of the bricks fell off. This caused back to the machine to crash down in the back which case most of the guys to jump off. As the pallet cleared the truck, the loader tipped forward, the pallet hit the ground breaking one of the bindings holding the bricks, some of the bricks fell off the pallet. The operator backed away from the truck, sliding the pallet off the truck bed. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. I was sitting in my truck wishing they would stop, but did not have time to yell for them to stop. Find Loading Gif stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, 3D objects, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. ![]() The load was near perfectly balanced between on the front wheels. This time the bricks lifted a little, then the wheels lifted. Then they got all the guys they could and had them stand on the tree spade on the back. So the operator ended the lift and lowered the rear wheels. As they tried to pick up the first pallet, the rear wheels lifted. ![]() The guys unloading the truck had a small articulating tree spade, with forks on one end, tree spade on the other. As I arrived the entrance was blocked by a flat bed truck delivering a load of pavers on pallets. I was called there to do some routine maintenance on some equipment. I wish I had a video of a scene I witnessed at a landscape nursery.
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