Crash Course for Outdoor Forklifts
  Most forklifts are used indoors, or a combination of indoors and outdoors.  Some, forklifts, however, spend their work lives outdoors and they need some special considerations. Let’s start with the lot you’re working in and around.  Paving matters.  Ideally, a blacktop or concrete is preferred over a dirt lot that can be...
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LARGE AND SMALL WAREHOUSES
                    Like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two warehouses are the same. Large and small, wide aisles and narrow, tall shelves and short- there are plenty of variables, and all of them can have an impact on what you need your forklift to do. We’ve...
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Part 7: Forklift Driver Training
It’s time!  I’ve spent a couple hours learning the basics of balance and stability and safety on the forklift, been intimidated (initially) by the math, and passed all the on-line tests with (if I say so myself) flying colors. Now, the rubber hits the road, as they say.  It’s time for me to show up at Atlantic Forklift Services...
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Forklift Masts
Picture a forklift. What part do you think of first? Probably the cab. It’s the biggest part of the forklift. Then, probably the forks.  They appear to do the bulk of the work, but the fact is the mast may be the most important part of the forklift. The mast is the part of the forklift that moves the load up in the air using a system of...
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Part 6: Forklift Driver Training
So far in my on-line training, I’ve learned a LOT about forklift safety and the Stability Triangle, which now that I think about it has a lot to do with safety as well- so it’s safe to say at this point that the on-line portion of the training is very much about not getting you or your co-workers hurt. It’s time well-spent. The next...
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Part 5: Forklift Driver Training
If you’re keeping track, when this training session started I knew next to nothing about forklifts and now that we’re entering Part Five of the on-line portion I know about the Stability Triangle and I know what types of behaviors and situations will get myself or my co-workers hurt.  All important stuff as far as I can tell.  I’m feeling...
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Part 4: Forklift Driver Training
After a brief bout with the math and some basic physics involving center of gravity and something called the Stability Triangle in parts 1-2 of my on-line forklift operator training, I was ready to move on to Part Four: Safe Driving; Lift vs. Carry Parts One through Three, with the exception of the math (remember math and I don’t get along),...
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I Just Bought a Forklift – Now What?
You’ve done your research, asked all the questions, kicked the tires and you’re ready to buy a forklift from Atlantic Forklift Services. Now what? Atlantic Forklift Services will be with you every step of the way. That’s just what we do. We’re not going just drop off the forklift and never see you again. Earning your business is a...
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Part 3: Forklift Driver Training
After sliding through the first two parts of the online forklift operator training, I was starting to feel pretty good about my chances.  The math in Part Two wasn’t that intimidating and the physics of the center of gravity conversation and the forklift Stability Triangle made perfect sense.  I was now about 40 minutes into the course, and it...
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Keep Your Forklift Running Cool
Now that the weather appears to have decided to stay warm (fingers crossed) there’s something you need to be aware of on your gasoline-powered forklift to prevent it from running hot. Your radiator.  It needs fluids, it needs clear airways, it needs to know that you care- and now is the perfect time to show it. Start with your fluids- in...
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