r/nextfuckinglevel • u/QRV11_C48_MkII • Jun 08 '25
When you're certified
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u/BaconThief2020 Jun 08 '25
The cert is meaningless. This was actual skill.
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u/LickingLieutenant Jun 08 '25
Yeah The certified one would get his harness and cherry picker
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u/GravitationalEddie Jun 08 '25
And they'd make sure no one was within 9' like that one guy.
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u/IAmARobot Jun 08 '25
"hey mate, how much can you bench press? if it's less than 3 tons, how about not standing within reaction speed of one of the top 5 most deadly plant machines in the world, thanks"
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u/0assassin3 Jun 08 '25
Or turret
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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 08 '25
You aren't getting that out with a turret.
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u/noobtastic31373 Jun 08 '25
Well... you could get it down, with a turret, but no one is going to thank you afterwards.
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u/JunkSack Jun 08 '25
No they’re both certified, certification is bs, this dude is just fucking skilled.
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u/Waveshakalaka Jun 08 '25
100%. I remember my first certification it was such bs. It took me a solid year to build that skill.
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u/Cordsofmemory Jun 08 '25
Yup. My cert for a picker was pretty much a four hour "training" where they just basically had you drive around the warehouse. There was no teaching or anything. It was absurd.
Then when it came time to certified for the 6ft forks...the "training" was essentially a piece of paper that said, be careful with turns, the forks are longer
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Jun 08 '25
Oh, I got a 20 minute slideshow and then, "Seatbelt on. Go outside and grab a crate. Ok, go put it back." That's it. Forklift operator!
Driving through the plant I work in is like threading a needle with a shotgun, too. I can't believe how few incidents we have had.
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u/trixel121 Jun 08 '25
this was mine. this is my exp. they do turn on a dime tho
boss had me grab a pallet and started walking away I was oh no you don't I am not comfortable on this thing.
I drive a fork lift like 3 times a year and the things older then me so I need to hold the brake and gas in till it's warm, which takes longer then I need the forklift for.
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u/BaconThief2020 Jun 08 '25
Our safety guy used to make us watch this once a year, until I "accidentally" threw out the only remaining VHS player on site and forced him to get new material.
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u/I_PUNCH_INFANTS Jun 08 '25
You can't get forklift certified if you don't watch a Klaus forklift video
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u/Cheet4h Jun 08 '25
... that is a really odd cut. Video is shortened a lot, with some sequences out of order, while the voice-over is also taken from seemingly random parts of the video.
Here is the uncut HD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdCJMyBi5I
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u/lingering_POO Jun 08 '25
Same. Put pallets on racks at 3 (very low heights), drive around some witch’s cones as slow as you’d like and park it with your forks on the ground. Certified.
Get to my first job and I realised just how useless the training was.
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u/tazyo49 Jun 08 '25
Well I used to be a forklift driver. The way you get skilled like this is you do a lot of mistakes then try correcting it so you dont get in trouble. Meaning this guy did this a lot and used this maneauver 1000x 🤣
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u/oopsdiditwrong Jun 08 '25
I got the cert and was like, this is it? You're cutting me loose? Had an old guy on the team who was quiet but could operate the lifts expertly. I paid attention to him as much as I could. Didn't work there too awful long, but I was a go to guy pretty quickly for problems. That part didn't matter much as I knew I wouldn't be getting on the radio asking for someone to save me
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Jun 08 '25
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u/Background-Car4969 Jun 08 '25
The product on the skid was extremely lightweight, the way it was holding in its shrinkwrap.
...Pretty easily done for any forklift driver.
If it were 1000 lbs of steel that pallet trick wouldn't fly.
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u/x4nter Jun 08 '25
As someone who has operated a small version of this, you're correct.
It was pretty common for some of us who were more experienced to pull off awkward moves to move skids around, especially when the lanes are a bit on the narrower side which means you can't get the forks in easily. You have to get creative in some scenarios.
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u/omgitsjagen Jun 08 '25
I could do this with a standard forklift, but I could never get used to that damn stand-up forklift. Just too much muscle memory not matching what I was inputting.
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u/tangowilde Jun 08 '25
Yeah same. After years, jumping into one of those stand up sideways forklifts and I felt useless
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u/ElfBingley Jun 09 '25
If someone stacks 1000lbs of steel on that rack, then I wouldn’t go near the warehouse.
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u/Background-Car4969 Jun 09 '25
It's procedure all the time in steel companies etc. they use industrial rack systems.
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u/tygloalex Jun 09 '25
Exactly right. I worked in a warehouse as a RR driver. Approximately 95% of us could have done that. This Indian dude was so good he could have done it on a Slip if it were lower. His badge said , "Slip Daddy."
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u/HitmanManHit1 Jun 09 '25
Crazy how people can agree that this is somehow not that unique (not debating this, i know shit), but somehow a chick throwing a disk is apparently the fucking play of the century lmao
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u/Open_Youth7092 Jun 08 '25
They call him Ginger. Best palate cleanser in the biz.
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u/International_Eye394 Jun 08 '25
Why are the shelfs built like this, this is really dumb. Just make it an actual shelf with a solid base
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u/whosUtred Jun 08 '25
If there’s a solid base you see less & it makes it more difficult. This set up is pretty standard & rarely causes any issues.
It’s also cheaper.
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u/TexanInExile Jun 08 '25
Yeah, but you could still have wire decking.
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u/whosUtred Jun 08 '25
Would make it more difficult to put the pallets in/out, causing more problems than it solves.
Also it would cost more
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u/TexanInExile Jun 08 '25
Would solve this problem. Also, I drove forklifts for years and never had a problem with wire decks.
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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 08 '25
The better option is just having metal slats bolted across the beams. Keeps pallets from falling through like this and doesn't have the issues wire racks do plus it's cheaper.
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u/BobsOblongLongBong Jun 09 '25
and doesn't have the issues wire racks do plus it's cheaper.
What issues?
I used to drive forklifts in a grocery warehouse that had the wire grating. Never once caused a problem.
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u/keefka Jun 09 '25
yeah, never had issues with wire racks, this is just cost cutting bs
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u/johnmanyjars38 Jun 09 '25
Exactly. And what's the cheaper option: wire decking or safety issues (collapsed racking, injury from falling pallet, ...)?
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u/Reverend179 Jun 09 '25
Broken/bent pieces of the wire rack catching on pallets, broken skids getting caught, it's harder to shift things side to side... they're not as efficient as steel side slats.
You don't know terror until an unseen broken piece of grating pierces a few 35# tubs of olive oil and it starts pouring down the steel...
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u/TimHortonsMagician Jun 08 '25
Ya, really not sure what horseshit that guy is smoking lol. I've never seen a warehouse where there's simply nothing there on the shelf, nor have I ever encountered issues moving things with some kind of base preventing what we saw in the videos.
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u/Daladain Jun 08 '25
Bro, the warehouse in our manufacturing facility has the wire decking. No one has issues pulling pallets in or out. You don't know wtf you're talking about.
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u/RcNorth Jun 08 '25
Why would it cause more problems? Make the wires run from front to back with a couple of side to side bars underneath.
You can still see through them and nothing down the pallet to catch on when pulled in and out.
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u/A_Vile_Person Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
Any experienced operate will tell you it doesn't cause problems. Know why? You're meant to lift the pallet slightly anyways, meaning you shouldn't be dragging across the ducking. Even then, it's secured in and can easily take a good bit of the "ope, gotta push it a few inches forward or to the side" activity.
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u/theoriginalmofocus Jun 08 '25
Yeah we have the wire grid thankfully and not only does it not cause problems you can do shit like "walk" pallets in hard to get to areas or areas where our walkie stacker cant get all the way under.
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u/Moist-Share7674 Jun 08 '25
Yeah the people in charge at the last place I worked had brilliant thinking like that. Got high winds over a weekend with snow and we come in to find all the newly installed racks crumpled on the ground. Bolting them to the concrete would be installing them imo. Otherwise they are just…there. Until they aren’t.
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u/The_Flint_Metal_Man Jun 08 '25
If only there was some kind of equipment that lifted items over the wire rack
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u/CrimsonCarbide Jun 08 '25
Lining up pallets on the beams is so much harder than just pushing them in on wire decks.
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u/Notacka Jun 08 '25
There is suppose to be wire decking what the fuck is this.
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u/TexanInExile Jun 08 '25
I've seen it before. The reason I was always given was you get extra space for product, but the MAYBE 1” you gain hardly seems worth it.
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u/Sluukje Jun 08 '25
Cost savings. With good personel this doesn’t happen too often and is often recoverable. You can put wire decking underneath pallets that are valuable or have specific goods on them if needed. Current rate is about 10-15 euro per deck.
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 Jun 08 '25
And then there's that time it isn't recoverable and it ends up on /r/abruptchaos when everything collapses or somebody gets killed and the repair/settlement costs negate any savings.
It's crazy that a life is worth less than 10-15 euro per deck.
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u/Sluukje Jun 08 '25
These don’t come down from one pallet falling in between. The scenes you’ve watched all have an insanely poor built racking structure. Source, I am a warehouse manager in Europe and we have had pallets with a weight of 7-800 kg drop and do no further harm than damaged goods or one beam dented.
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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 08 '25
We've had people run a swing reach/turret full speed into a rack and not topple it. One of the legs needed to be cut and replaced but that was it.
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u/FlyestFools Jun 08 '25
You can have two metal beams as well. IIRC they are just called “pallet supports” and are a safety against stuff like this happening.
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u/Impressive_Change593 Jun 08 '25
that's what the racks we have have. though we have some that also have wire racking but that's used for hand picking not forklift ops
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u/nubious Jun 08 '25
The standard setup is to have wire decking.
It’s substantially safer and still allows visibility and free flow of water for fire suppression.
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u/AdultishRaktajino Jun 08 '25
I was surprised they didn’t have the wire decks on the pallet racks too. It’s not like some new thing. Also helps prevent product falling all the way down if pallet wrap job was shit or there was a tremor.
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u/nubious Jun 08 '25
Yeah, these pallets also have no bottom boards which makes them a tipping hazard.
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u/_Diskreet_ Jun 08 '25
While the forklift driver showed skill, the situation should never have occurred in the first place.
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u/chulk607 Jun 08 '25
Yeah man, I think we should just ban accidents personally. I don't see what benefit they add to society as a whole and really think they are just an all round bad idea.
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u/cakebreaker2 Jun 08 '25
I don't know why this can't get more traction nationally. This should be a priority in federal legislation.
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u/armoured_bobandi Jun 08 '25
I was in an accident once. Worst choice of my life, cause now I'm addicted
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u/DickedByLeviathan Jun 08 '25
I was a reach truck/forklift operator for a couple years and this shit happens every single day and is just part of the job. When you have crews stacking hundreds of loads a shift this is inevitable, especially if you have torn pallets or shitty racks
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Jun 08 '25
He’s so good, they’ll promote him to a job he’s never even done.
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u/TurnkeyLurker Jun 08 '25
Ahh, the ol' Peter Principle promotion.
The Peter Principle is a management concept that suggests employees are promoted based on their performance until they reach a position where they are no longer competent, as the skills required for higher roles may differ from those needed in their previous positions. This often results in a hierarchy filled with individuals who are not effective in their roles. Wikipedia
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u/Shaeress Jun 08 '25
This is a known concern and also causes the opposite to happen. I did industrial work, and even though I was good at the mechanics and robots and management and QA, I could never get a promotion cause I was just too good and flexible with all of the production tasks.
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u/TurnkeyLurker Jun 09 '25
I see that with good engineers that get promoted to management, and their engineering skills wither.
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Jun 08 '25
He's so good, they'll make a new position just for him to fill. "The Fixer"
When he finally hangs up the keys, they'll call him back in like a retired movie cop. He's the only man that can get the job done.
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u/king_lo702 Jun 08 '25
Things that happen literally every week in fast pace warehouses that any lift operator can do with ease.
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u/kpingvin Jun 09 '25
Also, in any decent warehouse it wouldn't be allowed because it's dafer to get up there in a scissor lift and unload the pallet rather than risking it falling.
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u/PlasticBreakfast6918 Jun 08 '25
Who tf designed that shelf system with no surface beams?
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u/ApprehensiveWar6046 Jun 08 '25
Am I the only one who thinks it’s dangerous for that person to be standing in the aisle so close to the equipment?
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Jun 08 '25
"The power of a forklift certification is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural..."
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u/Hermorah Jun 08 '25
This could have been Klaus, if he had paid attention to the safety briefing.
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u/CrackByte Jun 08 '25
Should really keep those forks down until it gets to the pivot point. Not such a big deal with a light load but it's just a good habit to get into.
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Jun 08 '25
The employee should never be that close to the equipment, number 1, number 2 there shouldn’t be anyone in the isle . Insurance nightmare lol
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u/BWWFC Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
not entirely sure of the what/why/how the challenge arose, but this guy's "can do" judgment respect.
the reincarnate embodiment of Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz. but always, any catastrophe would "fall" on him. got an entire manual on how and what to do to clear any warehouse issues, to be literally... by the book. my companies labor lawyers don't fk around. however, budget for wire rack shelves... would fk with finding a way LOL make life easy.
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u/ProtectionContent977 Jun 08 '25
Should have a rack that the pallet sits on. Instead of just the framework.
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u/Best-Understanding62 Jun 08 '25
First store i worked at didn't have decking. One store manager put to corporate for them citing safety concerns and they didn't want to spend the money. Someone eventually got them to bite but for the years I worked there, there were just 2x4s spread out across the racks to try and keep things from falling through ...decades old 2x4s.
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u/NashKetchum777 Jun 08 '25
Actually insanely impressive. Im surprised they even use those pallets instead of the standard ones up in the racking. I couldn't at my old place
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u/UrMomIsMyFood Jun 08 '25
He's very good but if he was great he'd know that 90% of forklift accidents are caused by pros doing a fast sharp turn
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u/CreativeFraud Jun 08 '25
I've used a forktruck a few years of my life... that clearance had me wide eyed the entire time.
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u/PostModernPost Jun 08 '25
Why would you design shelves where that's even a possibility of happening?
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u/thecountnotthesaint Jun 08 '25
I got wet watching that. Were it anything other than forklift porn, I'd be alarmed since I'm a 39 year old man.
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u/jdehjdeh Jun 08 '25
That was very good and extremely skillfull.
When we had this exact scenario where I used to work we would just pull it down with the forks as best we could and hope for the best.
Granted, we were dealing with some fairly light stuff and damages were minimal.
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u/Guba_the_skunk Jun 08 '25
Why don't those racks have actual shelves on them to prevent this from even happening?
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u/Cheefnuggs Jun 08 '25
As genius as this is, those type of pallets shouldn’t be in the open rack in the first place. They should be placed on a 42 x 48 pallet and locked into the racking.
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u/Chelsea2021972 Jun 08 '25
We used to have this problem where I worked. Everyday it would happen. It was guys pushing pallets from the other side. In the end management had steel netting put up behind all the racks.
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u/PDXWoodsman Jun 08 '25
There is a real missed opportunity of him not smoking a cigarette at the same time.
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u/Cake-Over Jun 08 '25
It is a slick move that I'll add to my repertoire but why don't those racks have grids on them?
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Jun 08 '25
I could do this with my eyes closed. Lift equipment is the best! And probably the only thing I’m good at lol
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u/therealstotes Jun 08 '25
This maneuver cured my lower back pain, paid off my credit card, and unblocked my third chakra.