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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Almighty, did your forklifts also have a mechanical/friction seat brake? A drum on the motor's tailshaft? The one we bought to scavenge for the ForkenSwift had both plug braking and the safety/seat brake.
(And I had to steer it after removing the power steering pump [and everything else], while it was being winched onto the flatbed truck that took it away - that was a bit of wrestling with the wheel.)
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Nope. It was an on-off switch. I could do things more quickly by braking up to the place I'm stopping, but not stop, and jump ship early. I worked at a coke plant (sounds funny when I say it that way) so loading up pallets for shipments means lots of running around loading different products. I never hit anything and it never rolled more than a few feet, about the amount I needed it to. It saved me about 15-30 minutes of work by doing this, and when you have 30 pallets and 8 trucks to load, and you start work at 5pm, getting out at 1am instead of 2am or later, every minute saved is worth it.
Not sure if that description makes sense. Kind of a long description eh? The propane fork did have mechanical brakes, and it showed. Sucker hauled, won the drag races, but braking was twice that of the electrical lifts. Sucked having to rev the motor when using the hydrolics too. "hold brake, rev motor, operate levers" lame machine.