Free Fork Lift

[Andy Champ]

From Wokingham Freecycle. If anyone is interested sign up to that group and search, or post back here with an email I can unscramble and forward to the OP. I've cut out the OP's details!

Andy

"Bit of a long shot - anyone want a broken down gas fork lift truck. It is currently at my work address which is in Bourne End, Bucks so you would need to be able to collect from there. It has a hydraulic oil leak and is no longer viable for us to repair, so has been replaced. It would need craning or winching up onto a flatbed. May be of interest to someone (perhaps for scrap). If you would like to take a look please e-mail (withheld) or call me on (withheld)."

[tim....]

Surely if it has scrap value, he will have no difficulty in finding a local scrap dealer to take it away

tim

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "tim...." saying something like:

Bit beyond most scrappies' recovery trucks. Need a specialised low-loader which I've only seen the forky recovery guys use.

[Andy Dingley]

Nothing is beyond a scrappie's ability to get it onto the wagon!

Some of our local culturally inclined collectors of unsecured metals were shifting a fork lift a while back - by towing it down the road behind their van! Ploddio had other ideas when they saw it.

Dad used to move fork lifts years ago, long before beavertails were around. He just stuck two planks down and winched them up onto a flatbed wagon. The same principle was applied to everything from cars to machine tools to hovercraft (hovercraft are a bugger to load).