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Lift height 106" at 24' load center, It has a auto trans single speed, 4 cyl Waukesha they are bullet proof. It has dry brakes,powersteering ram on right side of frame they leak but are easy to reseal off the unit. Check for flat spots on mast and carrage rollers, the lift chains could be streached. Check the mast hanger trunnions on the diff housing, they have brass ware pads in the top of the hangers If there is excessive grease at the lube points you might be good. How maney hrs on the unit? I was a lift mech for 30 yrs Cat,Clark, Hyster.
 
OUTLAWHANK said:
Lift height 106" at 24' load center, It has a auto trans single speed, 4 cyl Waukesha they are bullet proof. It has dry brakes,powersteering ram on right side of frame they leak but are easy to reseal off the unit. Check for flat spots on mast and carrage rollers, the lift chains could be streached. Check the mast hanger trunnions on the diff housing, they have brass ware pads in the top of the hangers If there is excessive grease at the lube points you might be good. How maney hrs on the unit? I was a lift mech for 30 yrs Cat,Clark, Hyster.
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106" max lifting height? That's it? Just shy of 9 feet.

The only job I need this thing to do is lift toys up to my mezzanine (golf carts, sea-doos, snowmobiles, etc), which is 7'6" off the ground, so 106 inches should be fine, but surprising.

Is there a simply way to check those trunnions for slop, like maybe sliding a jack under the mast to lift the weight, or shaking the mast side to side by hand?

What is the issue if those trunnions are wallered out? Mast would flop side to side a bit?

No idea on the hours. Does it really matter? How many hours is too much?
 
If it runs lean the mast all the way back with the forks off the deck some use wood like 2x4 under the front part of the mast on both sides and tip mast away from you, the movement will be obvious. the mast will flop around. There might be something on youtube. When checking a mast a good cat bar will help.
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Fuck it.
How bad could it be?:grinpimp:



I've only got about 60 feet of gravel between the shop and the road, but if it can't make that I'll just use the skid steer. This baby will be 99% indoor concrete use, as well as mobile work platform (working on snowmobiles/atvs etc).
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That thing will go two feet on gravel, one foot for each drive wheel.
 
2020AT4 said:
That thing will go two feet on gravel, one foot for each drive wheel.
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I've gotta question the difference between a foot of gravel pounded down into the roadbed over a few decades versus the 4" of rock atop fabric that everyone's selling themselves on these days
 
[486] said:
I've gotta question the difference between a foot of gravel pounded down into the roadbed over a few decades versus the 4" of rock atop fabric that everyone's selling themselves on these days
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I have a different verson of this forklift

the difference between the gravel you described is indeed different, but not much:laughing:

I even rented a compactor and ran it for hours in front of the shop thinking that it would buy me some more usable square footage. Wasn't worth the money
I just keep adding to the cement pad now
 
Found some pics of the stuff I'll be using this thing for. I know there's a way to calculate "moment" which I think is the word for the rotating force of the load trying to tip the forklift over forwards, but I've no idea how to calculate it.

This is a typical load for me, some of the sleds are near 800 lbs and almost 11 feet long, with the heavy end away from the machine. This pic I've got it tilted up because I was installing a front bumper, but usually the platform is fairly level.

My skid steer is only rated to 2300 lbs, 4600 lbs tipping, but it is an 8000 lbs machine and much longer than the Clark forklift. My guess is that a forklift's load rating is closer to it's tipping load since it'll be used on level ground and not in such a dynamic way (unlike the skid steer).

So this Clark, rated at 4000 lbs should be able to lift this safely?:

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[486] said:
I've gotta question the difference between a foot of gravel pounded down into the roadbed over a few decades versus the 4" of rock atop fabric that everyone's selling themselves on these days
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My loader with bald solid tires had no problem on turf until I cranked the weel to lock. You will be fine on gravel or a hard packed dirt road/driveway.
 
I don't think that forklift won't have any trouble with the sleds.

My only experience is working jobs where we did sketchier shit than that with forklifts almost every day. One such job was carrying around ~2500lb dollies used to carry containers back and forth to aircraft. We used your basic loading dock size Toyota forklift with extra long forks. Those dolliers were a fuckton heavier than that sled, and they stuck out just about as far when loaded at about 12' wide.
 
Having a bad back having a forklift has really changed being able to work in the shop again. I wouldn't want to go without it ever again. Mine is a Yale with a flathead propane 4 banger, hydrostatic trans. It's really annoying getting a 12000lb turd stuck in gravel though lmao

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SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
I have a different verson of this forklift

the difference between the gravel you described is indeed different, but not much:laughing:

I even rented a compactor and ran it for hours in front of the shop thinking that it would buy me some more usable square footage. Wasn't worth the money
I just keep adding to the cement pad now
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Usually everything is good until one wheel spins, then you’re fucked.

Whatever you do in that sitch, done try to get it unstuck with another forklift.

Then you’ll have two of them stuck and possibly one broke under the neath.
 
Alex said:
Having a bad back having a forklift has really changed being able to work in the shop again. I wouldn't want to go without it ever again. Mine is a Yale with a flathead propane 4 banger, hydrostatic trans. It's really annoying getting a 12000lb turd stuck in gravel though lmao

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That's a fucking awesome pic! :beer:
 
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Moar pics.

Friend looked at it today. You can see a little white when first started, motor was cold and the white cleaned up quick. Thoughts?

Tires are meh. Owner said they were like that when he bought it, no idea how long ago that was.

My friend said there was no leaks. Gave a $100 deposit and I'm going to look at it Monday.

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I think it's worth buying. Price is 2500 CDN delivered. Might be able to negotiate, but...?

Should I pull spark plugs and test compression or look at color of plugs? My friend said it started up good. I'm likely to be putting 25 hours a year on it, so I don't really think engine condition matters much.
 
just sharing... cuz fuck yeah forklifts.

i thiought my bigger hyster could make this lift... nope. 38' aluminum boat needed off the trailer for repairs.

istalling a wireless winch romote on the raymond order picker has really been paying off. stabbed its forks in the other end of the fork extensions. jusmped in the hyster, and using the electric lifts remote got 'er lifted, solo.

i really like the work smarter not harder that a forklift allows! and man didi i get lucky landing a shop with a big concrete pad out front. the crush rock around the pad i had layed in 10" deep and compacted as had as could be and still have a 50/50 driving on it witht the hyster, the reach fork? forget about it. more 'rete coming inthe near future. its fun being the small guy doing big work.

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btw, while i got it done. this job made myu mind up to build a proper gantry. my shop doors are 14' wide so ill build somehting that can fit but also make jobs like this less stressful. killed the job and had allot of fun with it, on to the next!
 
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tracyb said:
btw, while i got it done. this job made myu mind up to build a proper gantry. my shop doors are 14' wide so ill build somehting that can fit but also make jobs like this less stressful. killed the job and had allot of fun with it, on to the next!
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Sink four footings and do a 2-axis gantry outside.
 
tracyb said:
just sharing... cuz fuck yeah forklifts.

i thiought my bigger hyster could make this lift... nope. 38' aluminum boat needed off the trailer for repairs.

istalling a wireless winch romote on the raymond order picker has really been paying off. stabbed its forks in the other end of the fork extensions. jusmped in the hyster, and using the electric lifts remote got 'er lifted, solo.

i really like the work smarter not harder that a forklift allows! and man didi i get lucky landing a shop with a big concrete pad out front. the crush rock around the pad i had layed in 10" deep and compacted as had as could be and still have a 50/50 driving on it witht the hyster, the reach fork? forget about it. more 'rete coming inthe near future. its fun being the small guy doing big work.

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btw, while i got it done. this job made myu mind up to build a proper gantry. my shop doors are 14' wide so ill build somehting that can fit but also make jobs like this less stressful. killed the job and had allot of fun with it, on to the next!
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Cool!

What did you rig to inside the boat?
 
[486] said:
I've gotta question the difference between a foot of gravel pounded down into the roadbed over a few decades versus the 4" of rock atop fabric that everyone's selling themselves on these days
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At work we have a gravel yard that has been there since god was in diapers and sees regular semi traffic wet or dry daily.


You can drive a forklift on it easily until you cant, then your fukt.

And so is the guy who comes to help, and then the next guy and so on.

Got a call on the radio to bring a chain to help with stuck forklifts years back. I showed up with the chain only to find 50K lbs of fork trucks stuck in one lil circle.

I looked at those asswholes in disgust, shoved the chain off of the side of the truck and split.

fuckin tards, all of them.
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
I think it's worth buying. Price is 2500 CDN delivered. Might be able to negotiate, but...?
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Around here anything that runs and isn't completely clapped out fetches about $1 per pound of lift capacity. I was ecstatic get to get my 6k Komatsu for $3500. It's ugly but after I did a basic tuneup and put a solar charger on the battery it pretty much starts on the first turn.
 
Do these things have little tiny solid axles with ring/pinion like on a truck?

Where are the brakes located?
How does the park brake work?
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Do these things have little tiny solid axles with ring/pinion like on a truck?

Where are the brakes located?
How does the park brake work?
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the front axle of most pneumatic tire lifts is pretty much a narrowed medium duty truck rear axle
that guy prolly has a littler diff but it still is gonna have some bigass spindles and hubs
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
I think it's worth buying. Price is 2500 CDN delivered. Might be able to negotiate, but...?
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No Idea what that equates to in real money, but for $2,500 I would have bought it already. Then again there might be a 40 page thread somewhere about doing that already. And I still would do it again.

Do you have 2,500 units of money?
Do you want a forklift?

Yes and Yes = YES !
 
DozerDan82 said:
No Idea what that equates to in real money, but for $2,500 I would have bought it already. Then again there might be a 40 page thread somewhere about doing that already. And I still would do it again.

Do you have 2,500 units of money?
Do you want a forklift?

Yes and Yes = YES !
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2,021.41 United States Dollars
 
If I was looking for a lift truck I would not keep looking. That one dosnt look rode hard and put away wet.
 
The brakes are in side the final drives, that have to be pulled to do a brake job. They use a bull gear some thing like portals, the park brake iirc is a small brake drumb under the trans. The R&P is dock worker proof. Books are still out there use model c500H40 H355. 2549 is the unit SN.
There is imfo on u tube on doing brake jobs,
 
I have a white, ma40. good machine, the front brake drums are the inside of the wheels. it will lift 4K, and weighs around 8K. brought it home sideways on the front of my gooseneck, and had a friend with a rollback unload it. had to fix all the stuck valves in it and a few seals and it works pretty well. someone gave it to my dad, and he gave it to me.
 
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