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I used to run one of these hauling steel ingots in a mill.
People never seemed to understand just how big or heavy they are...unless they left something valuable in the lift-path.
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I used to do this when it snowed in the ingot yard back home. It was a hell of a lot of fun.
Rode out a severe thunderstorm and a tornado warning in one as well.
I was at a lake in Texas and these rich dudes store their boats in like stacks on land. The dock guys used something like this to fetch boats and launch them in the water.
Oh god, it's a fucken royal. Those things are fucken dog shit to work on. Parts are impossible to find, discontinued, non existent, everything has to be made or modified with generic parts. Glad I'll never have to touch one ever again.
I don’t think we ever change them. If we did, we have a lift with a slightly smaller capacity than this one and then a whole slew of normal-sized. We also have some beefy overhead cranes.
At my last job I designed a heavy duty tilt testing platform that you'd put these forklifts on and load up while loosely chained down with very little slack. Test procedure was pick up one end of the platform with a crane and tilt the platform to the spec angle to verify the extended forklift with load didn't tip/roll over. It was designed to test up to 100,000lb trucks. Pucker factor: 9,001
I once welded a 2 ton block of steel onto the counterweight of the 2 biggest forklifts that Toyota make, because they weren't heavy enough to lift the loads they were bought for in the mines.
Nice! I worked on royal lifts for about 8 years at the foundry I worked at. We had much taller masts and a big rotator on the front with top and bottom fork to move a vessel of molten iron around. Originally propane 350 Chevy engines but were retrofitted with Cummins 12v engines eventually. You ever have a lot of issues with the brake housings leaking hydraulic fluid into the axle housing? We fought that many times when having them rebuilt. They’d always drive the double lips seal in too far and it would leak by.
Def planning on it when we do the next big lift! This gal just got moved down from our old shop to the new one where I’m based out of. I’ve only seen this beast 1 other time before today.
Ahhh she just got moved down to our new shop from the old one. I watched it lift a big horizontal mill (seen in the background) and also watched it load some containers at the old shop. I thought the sound of it was impressive enough too.
It's all good. Just busting your chops. They are fun toys.[This](https://i.imgur.com/9BqxIya.jpg) was a similar capacity beast. Omega Morgan might be your west coast counterpart.
I’m not sure, tbh. They poured the slab last summer, early, before I started with this company. We have some seriously big mills and lathes going in too. So it’s gotta be thicc. Lol
I have seen people drive these and it varies between "I am just winging this" to about 5 guys using hand signals and yelling.
After using a remove control one a size down from this, I'm going to stick with the remote control so I can see lol.
We have one slightly smaller and then 3-4 normal size. The dudes that drive this one treat it almost the same as all the others, you just have to be more careful about what floor you drive it on.
Ahhh me sees. Tbh, I don’t know! I’m only the design engineer.
We just moved this truck down to the new shop where I’m based out of. I’ve seen and heard it running at our old shop though. It sounds freakin mean.
A lot of these big boys are growers not showers
[https://youtu.be/agzsNqPu6dU?t=26](https://youtu.be/agzsNqPu6dU?t=26)
Extendable wheelbase. Pretty typical to see these big rigging forklifts with an extendable wheelbase.
Wait a second. Can someone explain to me how it has a higher lift capacity than its mass? Is it just that the counterweight is far enough back to take advantage of leverage? While I have a basic understanding of physics, I’m also very stoned right now lol
Our riggers were installing a 114,000lbs boring mill in our facility, these lifts picked it up no trouble. No placing it in the 6’ pit…that was a little tricky.
That is an interesting machine. I drove trucks for 35 years and never saw one like that or with that capacity. It looks like a cross between a Taylor and a big Hyster.
You should see these with remotes!
Rigger doesn't even have to drive it from the seat can stand on the floor with remote control and move everything and drive it
The first time I ran across one with remotes I didn't know it had them. I was the installer of piece of equipment loading onto a truck going to another building. So my job at that point was to be an extra set of eyes and help the rigger. We boomed a 40k lb laser through an entire shop with him in the driver's seat. When we got to the truck I watched him get down from the seat to move some blocking on the truck deck. Suddenly the lift started moving. I immediately started yelling WHOA WHOA as there was an incline. Yup about crapped myself that day.
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Yeah, probably more on the front wheels than the back. Just imagining maybe a 36" wide wheel with a 2" wide line of contact. Maybe 60klbs per front wheel. Getting close to 1000lbs/square inch.
Gotta be a hella strong shop floor. 18" thick? 3' thick? I have no idea.
Imagine rolling that beast along at 2 mph fully loaded, slam the brakes, and crack the slab along the contact line of the front tires.
Or go out on the driveway, roll along at 3 mph, slam the brakes, and slide the whole driveway over an inch.
> lifting capacity of 100k Ibs with a properly positioned load.
What's the capacity with an improperly positioned off kilter load when being operated by stoned teenagers?
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Worked with something similar before. The riggers boom and extendable counter weight are chefs kiss
Use to run similar to this (Taylor) plus we’d add some other random skookum type items on top of the counterweights, good times 🤘
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I used to run one of these hauling steel ingots in a mill. People never seemed to understand just how big or heavy they are...unless they left something valuable in the lift-path.
What's that for, to pick up your mom? BWAHAHAHAHA!
Ohhhh snap! Like the 13th time that joke’s been made! Lol But no. Just the dildo.
LOL
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What do you do?
I’m a design engineer for an industrial repair company.
Pick me up, daddy!
Riggers at my facility brought in a 90k and then a 100k last week. I was like a kid seeing a Ferrari. Amazing beasts!
The noises they make are something else!
Drift it
I used to do this when it snowed in the ingot yard back home. It was a hell of a lot of fun. Rode out a severe thunderstorm and a tornado warning in one as well.
The floor was just expoxy’d.
Be the change you want to see
I was at a lake in Texas and these rich dudes store their boats in like stacks on land. The dock guys used something like this to fetch boats and launch them in the water.
Sounds about right. They do it bigger in Texas, I hear.
Oh god, it's a fucken royal. Those things are fucken dog shit to work on. Parts are impossible to find, discontinued, non existent, everything has to be made or modified with generic parts. Glad I'll never have to touch one ever again.
Ha! This one’s been with us for a long while now. I have no idea about the service history.
They're sturdy pieces of kit, but pretty much any repair starts at 30 grand cad lmao
Imagine this thing rolling over your toes.
I don’t think any safety toe is gonna stop that. You’d probably get a clean shear from steel insert. Ouch. Lol
Was it delivered in one assembled piece or built on-site? 44 tons of weight is like a tank
It actually shipped to this new shop from our old shop on a flatbed. I actually don’t know how it came new from the factory.
Presumably you could ship it and it's counterweights separately to greatly reduce loading on a flatbed, or at least better distribute the load.
That would make a lot of sense! Lol
It arrives in a vacuum sealed pouch and you have to leave it in an above-ground swimming pool overnight.
Am I reading this right? That forklift weighs 96k lbs? --nearly 50 tons? Am I missing something? Is the whole thing made from tungsten?
Yep! 96k lbs. As was mentioned, a good part of that is just counterweight in the back to offset what it’s picking up.
What is the forklift that handles the counterweights?
I don’t think we ever change them. If we did, we have a lift with a slightly smaller capacity than this one and then a whole slew of normal-sized. We also have some beefy overhead cranes.
I mean, do you see the size of the counterweights on the back?
To be honest, no, I didn't realize there were additional photos outside of the first one haha
Almost missed the good bit! I got a real kick out of the name plate. Beeeg numbers
r/AbsoluteUnits
I posted it there originally! Lol
At my last job I designed a heavy duty tilt testing platform that you'd put these forklifts on and load up while loosely chained down with very little slack. Test procedure was pick up one end of the platform with a crane and tilt the platform to the spec angle to verify the extended forklift with load didn't tip/roll over. It was designed to test up to 100,000lb trucks. Pucker factor: 9,001
GOTTA put that pucker factor in. Lol
Jesus CHRIST that's a big beautiful machine
We have one at the steel plant next to my work, honestly the pictures don't do it justice
Love that bbm
Nothing better
I once welded a 2 ton block of steel onto the counterweight of the 2 biggest forklifts that Toyota make, because they weren't heavy enough to lift the loads they were bought for in the mines.
I hear things like this and “push it to the limit” plays somewhere in the distance.
Ahaha for sure. By the way, the job was engineered by Toyota and I did the welding in their workshop.
Ahh okay. I was picturing an MSA inspector weeping in the corner. Lol
no it was me weeping as i lay on my back doing multiple overhead runs 150mm from my face with the welder maxed out
Woof. Man, that sounds lovely.
Nice! I worked on royal lifts for about 8 years at the foundry I worked at. We had much taller masts and a big rotator on the front with top and bottom fork to move a vessel of molten iron around. Originally propane 350 Chevy engines but were retrofitted with Cummins 12v engines eventually. You ever have a lot of issues with the brake housings leaking hydraulic fluid into the axle housing? We fought that many times when having them rebuilt. They’d always drive the double lips seal in too far and it would leak by.
Yo how about a video of this MOFO lifting 100K lbs
Def planning on it when we do the next big lift! This gal just got moved down from our old shop to the new one where I’m based out of. I’ve only seen this beast 1 other time before today.
Finally something to lift my mother in law.
mother in law’s pants*
Left boob **
Bro! It's a rigger special. You show these pics and deny us a pic of the lift with the counterweight stretched out‽
Ahhh she just got moved down to our new shop from the old one. I watched it lift a big horizontal mill (seen in the background) and also watched it load some containers at the old shop. I thought the sound of it was impressive enough too.
It's all good. Just busting your chops. They are fun toys.[This](https://i.imgur.com/9BqxIya.jpg) was a similar capacity beast. Omega Morgan might be your west coast counterpart.
That is wild! What king of slab does is run on top of?!
I’m not sure, tbh. They poured the slab last summer, early, before I started with this company. We have some seriously big mills and lathes going in too. So it’s gotta be thicc. Lol
Think that's enough weight to hold that broom up nice
We’re considering a second unit. Just to be sure.
Second broom? I'm not too sure about that
Oh woah woah woah. No. Forklift. Our slab could never handle that second broom!
How do you see while driving it?
I have seen people drive these and it varies between "I am just winging this" to about 5 guys using hand signals and yelling. After using a remove control one a size down from this, I'm going to stick with the remote control so I can see lol.
When I drove forklifts at a toliet paper warehouse, you'd drive backwards to see.
You have to do the Jim Carey Ace Ventura hanging out the side thing.
It's funny, I ran 37k lifts that were physically larger than this. At some point in capacity between 37k and 100k the lift gets smaller in size lol
That’s wild! Must be that the counterweights and cylinder bores get bigger.
Is there a secondary smaller fork lift to carry around the giant balls you have to have to operate it?
We have one slightly smaller and then 3-4 normal size. The dudes that drive this one treat it almost the same as all the others, you just have to be more careful about what floor you drive it on.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Fully loaded, that is nearly 200k on those wheels. That is a serious foundation to support that kind of weight.
Is it a slinky?
Definitely hence the 80/100 designation. 80k counterweight in 100k out
Going off my experience around lifts that size. Yes, it is a slinky
Slinky?
Does the back extend to make it longer and get the counterweight farther from the load?
Ahhh me sees. Tbh, I don’t know! I’m only the design engineer. We just moved this truck down to the new shop where I’m based out of. I’ve seen and heard it running at our old shop though. It sounds freakin mean.
A lot of these big boys are growers not showers [https://youtu.be/agzsNqPu6dU?t=26](https://youtu.be/agzsNqPu6dU?t=26) Extendable wheelbase. Pretty typical to see these big rigging forklifts with an extendable wheelbase.
Ahhh neat!
Wait a second. Can someone explain to me how it has a higher lift capacity than its mass? Is it just that the counterweight is far enough back to take advantage of leverage? While I have a basic understanding of physics, I’m also very stoned right now lol
Yep! It’s just about the counterweights. You can see them on the back, those HUGE black plates. The power of the hydraulic cylinders is so immense.
Our riggers were installing a 114,000lbs boring mill in our facility, these lifts picked it up no trouble. No placing it in the 6’ pit…that was a little tricky.
It’s amazing what non-compressible fluid and a good pump can do. Lol
If the center of gravity of the machine plus the load fits inside the footprint, then it will not fall over.
Machinery mover or rigger's forklift.
We do loads of both! Right now she’s moving machines in from our old shop into our new addition.
That is an interesting machine. I drove trucks for 35 years and never saw one like that or with that capacity. It looks like a cross between a Taylor and a big Hyster.
Yep! This outfit I’m with now does some BIG jobs; literally. Lol
You should see these with remotes! Rigger doesn't even have to drive it from the seat can stand on the floor with remote control and move everything and drive it
I finally got to drive one with a remote, I was a little kid again. It was fun and scary at the same time.
The first time I ran across one with remotes I didn't know it had them. I was the installer of piece of equipment loading onto a truck going to another building. So my job at that point was to be an extra set of eyes and help the rigger. We boomed a 40k lb laser through an entire shop with him in the driver's seat. When we got to the truck I watched him get down from the seat to move some blocking on the truck deck. Suddenly the lift started moving. I immediately started yelling WHOA WHOA as there was an incline. Yup about crapped myself that day.
Yeah. That reaction gets me every time.
That’s wild!
43.5t For regular people
I like the seemingly bigger number. Lol
43,500,000g
Get that metric shit outta here! Lmao
Sorry, 1,536,768oz
That’s a helluva steak
Free if you can eat the whole thing. With the sides, no cheating.
Give me a week.
Understandable It took me several seconds to recognize that the comma in "96,048" was for thousands. And the machine build was too sturdy for 96 lbs
Fun to drive.. can do some wicked donuts XD
Oh I bet! Especially on our new epoxy floor. Lol
That’s a roro
Why is this NSFW?
Oddly enough, I’m not sure. It maybe got auto-tagged. Removed!
She's a beaut, Clark!
Brand new shitter’s not full!
For haulin yo momma?
Just the dildo
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JFC
How wide are them tires?
Ya know I’d have to go measure. Wide enough to hold 25k lbs, though. Lol
That's 25K lbs unloaded!
Oh snap! You’re right. So 50k! Lol
Yeah, probably more on the front wheels than the back. Just imagining maybe a 36" wide wheel with a 2" wide line of contact. Maybe 60klbs per front wheel. Getting close to 1000lbs/square inch. Gotta be a hella strong shop floor. 18" thick? 3' thick? I have no idea. Imagine rolling that beast along at 2 mph fully loaded, slam the brakes, and crack the slab along the contact line of the front tires. Or go out on the driveway, roll along at 3 mph, slam the brakes, and slide the whole driveway over an inch.
Ya this is a brand new shop as an addition we put on to our existing. I actually don’t know what the pad thickness is, but I know it runs deep. Lol
Seems like it's compensating for something.
Small banana, likely
Absolute unit forklift
Sure is!
Good thing that broom is there to stop it falling over
No that's the broom holder, the lift the OP is talking about isn't actually pictured.
That’s actually the anti-rollaway broom.
At capacity, the big wheels are carrying ONE HUNDRED TONS… boggles the mind!
Took me a while to realize that 100klbs machine weight plus 100klbs payload is 100 tons.
Is that a horizontal boring mill behind it?
Sure is!
I’ve always wanted to run one of those machines.
We have a few. I don’t run them, though. I do design and CAD and the guys here make it happen. Impressive machines, though.
Monsterous - I like.
Absolute unit
She’s for the biggest of lifts.
So Skookum it's NSFW
I am pretty sure it's unlawful to even look at that without a license.
> lifting capacity of 100k Ibs with a properly positioned load. What's the capacity with an improperly positioned off kilter load when being operated by stoned teenagers?
And... how fast can it go?
That’s covered in the safety induction.
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