I got a NEW forklift!! Heart be still!!

[mwilson]

After 2 decades I finally got a new forklift. Not used, not an off-lease but new!!

Guys are pretty excited!!

 

[mwilson]

Bonus points if you can tell what the button. on the rear grab handle is for...

 

[TFucili]

Nice! I don't think Hyundai was even a player the last time we shopped lift trucks.

 

[TFucili]

Bonus points if you can tell what the button. on the rear grab handle is for...

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Never saw that, but that is usually where I'd grab the cage when backing up, so I'll say aux horn button.

 

[mwilson]

Never saw that, but that is usually where I'd grab the cage when backing up, so I'll say aux horn button.

Yes, that’s just what it does. Pretty clever idea!!

 

[BigPapa]

Congrats, Mike.

 

[Ozymandias]

Nice! I don't think Hyundai was even a player the last time we shopped lift trucks.

Very famous brand in Europe for the last two decade, everyone that can or want not afford a Linde goes into Hyundai.
I like them more then the Linde because the sight to the fork us way less obstructed then on the Linde.

 

[TFucili]

I'm still a forklift junkie

 

[mwilson]

All I listened to today was how we should do a Wrap on the new forklift similar to what my pickups and delivery truck have..

President is out looking the new forklift over so I go outside.
I prod the guys, “Hey, ask him about wrapping the forklift!!”

He looks at me and says “Mike, these guys are all white!!

I looked at him and said “ White guys can’t rap?”

He says “Exactly!!

We both left laughing...

 

[Wayne M.]

Got shifting forks? We have Yale, Toyota, Clark and Doosan. IMHO Yale has always been King in Diesel or electric.

 

[mwilson]

Yes, side shift. 5,000 lb capacity.

3 stage mast. Foam filled tires.

Should do us a nice job.

 

[jgillott]

We spent all weekend with our friends Ron and Heather trick or treating with their kids. Anyway, Ron is a mobile tech for a forklift company. Hyundai was the one brand that he said he never has to touch beyond routine service. Really good buy right there. Congrats.

 

[TFucili]

This is my ideal forklift:

#ad

 

[Jim W]

I never got to play with any thing that small, my only experience driving a fork lift was a 988 with logging forks on the tractor.

 

[Wayne M.]

I’d like to look close at that Hyundai. I doubt anything is more stout than this Yale.

Each garage has one or 2. They're at least 20 years old, and they are beat unmercifully and put away wet all the time. These are what put the plows on/off in winter. This thing is built like a farm tractor but backwards. The engine, trans and axle are one member, and it’s overbuilt. Has a Mazda Diesel that just won’t die.