Texas and the whole midwest has been having some nasty storms this spring so I shouldn't have been caught with a customer truck outside but it happened. Forecasters are calling for half dollar sized hail and parts for a 1940 International K series pickup are just slightly less rare than hens teeth. The sky was getting mighty dark, I was alone, and it wouldn't start so I told myself it I can't take it to a shelter I'll take the shelter to it. Scooped up a 98 Lincoln waiting as an organ donor with the fork lift and lowered it down to about 4 inches above the pickup. The Lincoln has taken a couple poundings but the International sits there fat and happy.
Yikes! Glad you made it through, Evan! I'd be afraid the wind could catch that and bounce it up and down a bit. Glad it worked for you!
Watched the storm scenery on the news here ! Coilover.....long time ago but nice to here your voice again. Man these tornados and cyclones storms are horrifying scenery and they freak me out because we are having more of them each year here to. People loose there houses , huge trucks and animals and you name it flying through the air. We have had a lot of storms towards the north west coast of Norway to this year with flod and hurricanes but not that bad as Texas and your states. The world is going to meet some nasty weather conditions in the future and its expanding more and more. Did you guys know that this continent had a subtropicall climate once for many thousand years ago as it whas connected to the latin american continents ? Glad to here you did`nt got any personal damage. Greatings from Norway.
You're a touch braver than I, sir. With my luck, the hydraulics would've failed and I'd have lost all three vehicles... Damon
Everyones right if I had a modern forklift but a friend zings me by saying they had to wait 2 years after the machine was built untill gasoline was invented to run it. It has a stationary set of outer channels that the movable inner cradle rolls up and down in. A chain from the top of the rigid channel to the bottom of the movable one means a hose or cylinder would have to give up AND have a 3/8" link high tensile chain break. You take a higher risk everytime you ride an elevator than this gives. Really didn't ride in on a turnip wagon when it comes to things mechanical. Set this picture up afterward for ones that asked because at the time I beat the storm by no more than 3 minutes.
I could picture me firing that baby up to remove the car from over the truck and accidentally hitting the "down" lever...
Hail storms and shelter You are a pretty smart ass finding this solution in such a short notice I have seen hail storms with iceballs in it big as golf tournament balls. My cousin had his vehicle badly damaged once by hailstorms coming verticall out of the sky. Remember what Nostradamous said that at the end of 2012 a big impact will come and it will destroy the world. So its time to get your trucks on the road before that happens and have fun. Its cruisin time hallelujah.
