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I've run a lot of different forklifts, I kinda enjoyed that part of warehouse work. My last warehouse job had Hyster 80s. They sat up real high and getting in and out of them all day really started hurting my knees and hips. The hydraulics were very touchy and they didn't have a separate clutch for putting it in the ketchup to lift a heavy pallet.

My favorite were the Komatsus. They were super smooth and comfortable to operate. Weren't as powerful as the Hysters, but they made up for it in how easy they were to operate.
I have no idea when Komatsu became a thing but my time frame was mid 70s to mid 80s

The Clark rigs were a lot lower general maintenance than the Hysters

I did prefer rebuilding the little flat head 4 bangers in the smaller Hysters though

Dead simple
 

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You guys probably get sick of my stories but this is a good one. In 1984 I was hired by Atari/Warner Communications to build a large plastic injection molding plant to make all the plastic components for the Atari game systems

After we got it up and running we needed people (women) to trim and pack parts coming off the lines and one of the guys there was ex-army and married to a Korean woman

She put the word out and soon we had probably 75% Korean Army wives for the labor force

They would always go back to the furthest corner of this enormous facility to eat lunch because some of the others objected to the kimchi, etc that was their normal lunch

I was poking around back there one day during lunch and the ladies offered me a plate of food, meat in a spicy sauce, rice, and kimchi

I ate it all but while I was eating they could barely keep from busting out laughing and when I finally finished they couldn't hold it and finally just lost is laughing

I asked the one lady I knew spoke English what was so funny and she blurts out "you just ate dog", without missing a beat I told her "you know, that was probably the best dog I ever ate" and casually walked off

I had been eating off Juarez taco carts for 20 years and KNEW I had eaten my fair share of mystery meat so this didn't phase me

I earned a standing invitation to lunch with them and took them up on it from time to time

I did ask the ex-army guy later if it really was dog and he said hell yes, it was a habit he couldn't break them of

I enjoy hearing your stories.

So far to date the most interesting / intriguing one, was when you came over on the Mayflower with Chris...
 
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I enjoy hearing your stories.

So far to date the most interesting / intriguing one, was when you came over on the Mayflower with Chris...
Pffftttt

I was standing on Plymouth Rock with my loincloth pulled down mooning the Mayflower when it pulled up


Bunch of Johnny come lately pansies
 

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