Fuck, these posts are making me realize that the L.A. market on forklifts is through the roof.
If $1/lb is the average, why is .50/lb with a bad hg a pass?
also seems like forklift dealers here snatch up any good used deal and mark it up.
Re: loaders and skid steers - yah Id love one, but thr cost goes way up. Id love a tracked bobcat, or a skid steer, or fuck it an excavator, but moneys...
Fuck, these posts are making me realize that the L.A. market on forklifts is through the roof.
If $1/lb is the average, why is .50/lb with a bad hg a pass?
also seems like forklift dealers here snatch up any good used deal and mark it up.
Re: loaders and skid steers - yah Id love one, but thr cost goes way up. Id love a tracked bobcat, or a skid steer, or fuck it an excavator, but moneys...
In typical IBB fashion "you need a tractor"
A real forklift is hard to beat, spin on a dime, Side shift, visibility, lifting capacity for its size, ect.
Also YOU DON'T FUCKING NEED PNEUMATIC TIRES FOR HARD PACK GRAVEL! FUCK
As long as you don't buy s straight warehouse forklift, it will be fine.
A skid steer or tractor with forks is more versatile, but a huge compromise as a forklift. Skid steer will tear up gravel and a loader with forks just sucks.
Disagree. I use the forks on my loader more than my bucket. I've got experience running regular forklifts and tellehandlers but for home use the loader with forks works best for me for the money.
On a hard surface, a standard forklift will run circles around a loader with forks.
I disagree, a good operator on a skid is extremely fast. Our skid has the forks on it like 40% of the time, bail spear 50% and the bucket 10%. Only downside for the skid is the lack of lifting height. Can only stack 3 bails high with a skid, with a forklift we could go to the ceiling.
A forklift is the best forklift, why is that such a crazy concept![]()
Nobody's disagreeing with you and everybody's saying a forklift isn't the best for what OP wants a machine for.
My uncle is offering me this for $3500. 6000 lbs. He thinks it may have a bad head gasket. What say IBB?
We had 3, 2 5k, that looked the same, one had a hurricane 4 cyl iirc. Was smoking like a freight train when the owner "got it for a killer deal from an auction" it was bad enough that even outside you'd get a headache running it. All around it was just a pos, even after he had the engine rebuilt.
The other had a different engine some Peugeot pos iirc, and was even worse, so gutless that it wouldn't go up the 2* ramps into the shops without a ramp.
We also had a 10 or 12k. It had a Nissan in line 6, it had a 2spd and was stuck in high. So it was a gutless turd, but would go ridiculously fast.
The forklift mechanic always talked shit on the cat lifts.
I'm getting ready to move in a couple weeks and needed something that can move the 20k+ lbs of machine tools, tooling, and other random shit I've amassed in the past few years. Cheap lifts are hard to come by around here and sell within hours. This komatsu popped up on FB yesterday. Messaged the guy and went over and looked it it right away. He said he had 20+ people messaging him and I'd believe it. Gave him $3200 for it, delivered. Cheapest I've seen for anything in the 5k lb range nearby....and dual fuel w/ tank included on top of that.
Runs, all movements work, brakes work. No obvious puking fluid leaks. Smokes a little when warm and it looks like the crank case is getting pressurized (dipstick is hopping up ever few seconds) - assuming the rings are pretty well shot. Gonna throw a new pcv on it and see if that helps the case pressure. But it seems to run fine and will get me moved. It's got a nissan 4-cylinder engine in it - stupid easy to work on and parts should be cheap and plentiful.
I can clean it up, give it a Ritchie Brothers tune up (half assed paint job) and sell it for $5k when I'm done with it.