They even come in an electric powered version! π
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Yea don't take the yellow one with two people.
Two of my colleagues tried, one on each side. Did not go well, luckily they got up in one piece.
luckily they got up in one piece.
I suppose these are very bottom-heavy, given their use, but I wouldn't have thought riding one would be that dangerous ? What happens when one does that ?
The wheels will snag on the smallest of debris; then your instinct is to brace yourself against the handle, but it hinges away from you so you fall forward with nothing but the ground to stop you.
or OPs mom
...wait a minute...
I think those things have a maximum of 2500 lbs
The electric ones are cool as fuck, you can sit on the front and drive them like a car, I used to start at midnight at my retail job, our one was my personal vehicle around the store all night untill the miserable fun police came in to tell me it's not safe.
I was 16 on my first summer job in a grocery store warehouse, and the day one of the adults tasked me to start driving the pallets around, two at a time with the long electric one, after putting pallets together for days, felt like the best day of my life.
I kept doing that job for every day forward voluntarily, while no one else would. Until the miserable fun police came and assigned me to a shift in the walk in cooler/freezer section in the basement. Sure, all the Neapolitan and yogurts I could stomach, but I also promptly got a cold that floored me for days.
Fuck you, Steve.
dont you need a license/cert to drive one?
Could be. It's not a fork lift though, and was completely electric. Kind of like this but in yellow, for moving two pallets at the same time:
This was mid to late 90s though in Hungary. I assume they've all been replaced by either automation or just single electric ones since.
They are still being made and used. At a job I had 7 years ago they had two of them. Pretty handy when you need to fill a truck with pallets. I did not need a license.
You need some practice though, I may have fallen off one or two times in a corner. One day a truck driver borrowed it and managed to park the whole back into another pallet. Fun machines.
At my current job we have ones for single pallets, but they can go 4 meter high. I love it, very flexible and small, but you can still put pallets away pretty high.
I worked a warehouse a few years ago that had ~15 of the two pallet long ride-on pallet jacks and one that could carry three pallets.
Each of the employees picking orders would drive them around, paletizing a whole order then dropping it off in a staging area to be wrapped and loaded on a truck later that night.
You'd often have item bays waiting to be replenished before you could complete picking an order, so we used ride-ons that could carry two pallets allowing you to move on to a second order while you waited on the first.
Isn't that a fork lift of it can lift 4m high?
90s Hungary
yeah, probably certs weren't needed!
Once again proving your name wrong, if I had any self awareness Iβd probably worry how often I agree with someone named dumbass
Sure, until you hit the first pebble or chunk of wood.
Or need to corner a little too hard
I got banned from the Pallet Jack Racing Leagueβ’ at my old warehouse job for being too good at drifting.
I invoked the rule of 2 and started training an apprentice, but then the fun police told us it was an "OSHA violation" and someone was going to get hurt so we had to stop racing.
Disputes were still settled by jousting on them with dustmop lances, though.
Wait, you can drift those fuckers?
Used to work in a warehouse and you could move pump jacks forward while standing on them by leaning left and right while turning the handle left and right in tandem.
Sorta like on a swing the momentum builds up until youβre cruising nicely.
Kinda like how you move one of these?
Yes, just with no brakes.
To stop you had to quickly turn the handle to the left or right to skid out and slow down.
Sounds sketch as fuck I love it
That's the boogaloo? I've heard so much about the scooter for two, electric boogaloo.
On a pallet jack built for twoooo
A twoter.
Funnily enough, the green looks to be Bolt branding and here in Bolt's homeland, the other, smaller local brand with escooters around town uses yellow as their colour.