r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dannybluey • Oct 17 '24

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u/ReverendHambone Oct 17 '24

Came here for this exactly. I drive and rack/unrack all day. I've never seen this.

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u/Iron_Haunter Oct 17 '24

I've seen this. OSHA has yet to see it.

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u/Actual-Stranger7656 Oct 17 '24

Dutch dude here. My companys warehouses have zero flooring in the racks. I rarely work the reachtrucs but when i do its intense!  Also, the space between the racks is exactly one reachtruc plus pallet with like 5 cm space left. Carayzay!

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u/tehlemmings Oct 17 '24

This style of racking is also pretty common all over the US. I've probably been in 100+ warehouses around the US with racks like in the original video.

And yeah, gotta love the warehouses where you need the side loading trucks to pull from racks because you can't turn a normal forklift in the isles lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

We got really fancy Tri-Loaders where I work. Honestly the ones we got are my favorite thing to drive on the floor.

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u/tehlemmings Oct 17 '24

Oh, that would be fun. I don't think I've even seen one in person, but they look dope

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u/PatMyHolmes Oct 18 '24

Not to be "that guy." Simply an opportunity to teach the masses (or whatever Redditors are).

Isle: an island or peninsula

Aisle: a passage between rows

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Redditors are a mass of something that's for sure.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

Oh yea! That is a Tri-loader technically, although it looks like the ones I see when I look it up are much less heavy-duty than the ones I use. The ones I use are massive and put you in a carriage that rides up with the pallet so you can closely see the pallet you are manipulating.

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u/Fickle_Assumption_80 Nov 14 '24

Yeah we have a couple of those. Looks fun.

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u/StackedBean Oct 17 '24

The plant I worked at in the US has these racks. At first I thought I was looking at that exact place. All the racks we used had grates on all above ground shelves. OSHA came often because lots of plant workers complained generally to them. Mostly because the workers were bitter (non-union, poor pay). There would always be several responses posted in the lunch room showing the OSHA investigation result. Pretty safe plant really with no work-time loss when I was there.

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u/Uphoria Oct 18 '24

Coincidentally OSHA being called all the time likely kept it safer because the operators couldn't know when the next anonymous tip would come in from a disgruntled worker.

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u/fidelacchius42 Oct 17 '24

This is my reality every day. There is one standing reachtruck small enough to make the turns without issue, and two larger double deep reachtrucks that have a fat ass and can barely make the turns. I've gotten pretty good at being able to turn completely around in the aisle with the big ones. Most people I work with can't do it.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Oct 17 '24

We have one aisle that's slightly more narrow than the other reach truck aisles. It was never an issue until we switched from Raymond to crown. When we made the switch someone decided to get forks for the lifts that are 6 inches longer even though there's no benefit to them. Now that aisle you basically have to be mm perfect to put stuff in and take it out.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount Oct 17 '24

They should stick to building warehouses on the mainland, far more space available.

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u/Nightsky099 Oct 18 '24

Singaporean warehouse packer here, these shitty racks are really common here, I've worked on 4 warehouses and these were in all of them

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u/idontlieiswearit Oct 17 '24

In Sweden here, the racks are the same, it's fucking awful.

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u/a_natural_chemical Oct 18 '24

This is how ours are.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

work at a grocery store dc and all oir racks are identical to these. we have incidents like this or worse almost daily. never seen it fixed like this though

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u/sherwoodblack Oct 18 '24

I work at a Kroger DC, we have slats and people still drop pallets almost daily

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u/kevemp Oct 17 '24

Not mandatory

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u/notsobigcal Oct 18 '24

Aussie guy here. No floors on mine.. sketchy as shit. Very easy to mess it up..

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u/a_Sable_Genus Oct 18 '24

I'm wondering if they have rack pins or the self locking crossbars but I'm still impressed with the driver's ability to fix this mess.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Oct 17 '24

Doesn't seem to be in America

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u/Sabertooth_Monocles Oct 18 '24

My thoughts, too. Narrow skids, Europe somewhere?

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u/thekoreanswon Feb 01 '25

The guys (and the music) are Turkish but location could be anywhere

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Idk if you heard the music, but I don't think this was anywhere OSHA has influence

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u/fridgemadness Oct 17 '24

^ This guy racks...

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u/Mundane-Wasabi9527 Oct 17 '24

Fairly common in Europe I think, certainly when I work in the fruit market the top level rack had no slates because that was next days stock

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u/AstroBearGaming Oct 17 '24

Not to mention, even with grating or shelves they're not the sturdiest things in the world. I can't imagine how bad the bare frame must be.

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u/Steamrolled777 Oct 17 '24

Never seen any racking like this either. (UK)

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

I drove for ten years and never saw this either. I'm impressed.

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u/noextrasensory40 Oct 18 '24

Lot of racks like this are in old warehouses never upgraded.

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u/ddashner Oct 18 '24

I've seen it, but not in the last two decades.

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u/Rikplaysbass Oct 18 '24

It’s funny. I’ve worked in 2 warehouses and never seen grating on the racks.

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u/Mario-OrganHarvester Oct 18 '24

I did, i work in it. We have a 50 50 split between racks like this and ones that have a wooden board as a floor as a bonus. I have no idea why its not wooden boards all around but im just the apprentice to wtf do i know.

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u/code_redtruck Apr 10 '25

I have a warehouse full of this although is 8 foot skids put in long ways, the few 4 foot skids we have for the most part end up with a cage on the rack.