Caption This for 12/30/16

I don't see anything usually here, what am I missing?

I know, right? This isn't really all that uncommon.

Reminds of a project I had done for one of my customers. A customer was moving their Weigh scale platform that had (2) Triangle weigh scales on it to another room in their production plant.

It was about 28ft long. My competitors bidding it out by cutting the platform deck in pieces it was 8' x 28' long.

I wanted the job, I thought I could move it one piece, so I measure the path, and actually work it out in cad, it had a couple of turns, and the tightest area was actually a U turn and I'd have about 2" to spare.

I sweated this out, because I came in 1/3 the price of the others to do the work. If it work, I'd made about 150% profit, if it didn't, I would have lost well of 5 figures. It had to work.

Moving it, we had the forklifts on both ends just like the picture. I drove the trailing forklift. We past the clients production lunchroom that had a 4' window. And when I passed the window, I looked in and the clients employees were on break, all were staring at us with their mouths open.

I started to laugh because the look on their faces, it reminded me of this laurel and hardy skit.

Ah yes, that is a classic, done many times, by many comics.

I don't think I've seen variations 2 & 3 done before, that's giving me some ideas for some Variety Show skits.

there was another scene I recall, where the board would pass, with no one one carrying the lead end, and Hardy was going to take a swat at laurel on the trailing end, but when the trailing end came, there was no one there either.

I still laugh just thinking about it.

Yes, that forklift comes with the 40' extension option

That pic deserves to be a "Caption This!" entry all its own, a clear case of 'reckless redneckitude,' to borrow the phrase from Kahn Souphanusefone on the old King of the Hill cartoon.

I agree!

As mad as that looks, I've seen very similar done on construction sites.

Me too! It's not uncommon.

I'll not detail exact, but I have been in situations that leaft me shamed. Take a huge risk or we just get somebody else to do the job. It's the nature of heavy engineering. Not easy to live with when you see people die.

It's like a tractor pull, only we call it a forklift push!

One hardcore fan of the 'forklift push' is a start!

The mechanical version of a "push-me-pull-you".

Or is this the preliminary prototype of Lyndoor trash compactor?

Standard day the TCMtech shop, only I do it by myself. The left machine gets put in low forward and the rear facing right machine I drive and steer to get where I need to be.

You drive two forklifts at the same time?

Just wonderful, now you made the OSHA Indian cry.

I've seen you in the movies, with your co-worker Mr Hardy..

That is because you are at TCMtech where safety not only not rules, it does not even come through the front gate!

The long and short of this problem is, that you carefully watch me, and follow my instructions. Gooooooooooooo

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

"When push comes to shove"

"Clash of the Titans"

Bob figures out a way to cut the size of his carbon footprint in half.

Forklift operators at LynDoor^(TM) Industries, attempting create a scene from Dr. Doolittle in which he donates the Pushmi-pullyu llama to the local zoo.

In other new, a giant pink sea snail was spotted offshore in the Long Island Sound.

a two-headed caterpillar?

The world's first modular fence being installed!

"Have we met?"

"Cut it in half and give both halves to that guy in the middle."

--King Solomon, c. 950 BCE

That kind of thinking will get you somewhere, keep it up!