Forklift machining support - photo

[Altair]

Forklift machining support.

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Previously:

Threading a large shaft - GIF
Machining a multi-start thread - video
Polygon turning - GIFs
Machining a giant ball valve - GIF
Machining brass valves - video
Pulling a Jeep with a lathe - GIF

[Toolmaker51]

Shop with large footprint, programmable equipment and minimal imagination?
No saw, fabrication equipment, or needed an outboard roller support before?
That just starts list of issues....

[suther51]

First, no video.

Second, is there a way to tell if the lathe is just being loaded with bar stock and the stand is sitting out of the way just out of frame?

I have been bit by assumptions too many times

[Toolmaker51]

Assumptions are trouble, no question.

Yet pictures are worth 1,000 or 10,000 words. Must depend on the subject? This one I'd title "Why I Won't Do Production."
Like my eagle-eyed spouse; in market for next house, ignored false positives like staging and sought out detriments. Some rejected soon as front door opened!

Personally, I've seen instances with every one of these conditions:
For starters; awaiting bars in foreground are perpendicular not staged parallel with spindle.
With no bar feeder in the way, it's likely another lathe is, insufficient for the bar length as well.
The lathe is some kind of CNC engine lathe, not air or hydraulic, chuck key on the head stock.
The doubled sling is basket rigged over both forks, good for leveling, stable but not so easy to twist 45° or 90°.
No one seated in forklift.
There are shop layouts with lathes face to face, tended by one operator. Probable the CNC operator IS the lift operator. Never by the way, heard any being paid a proportionally larger amount though.
Being floor level and not especially a well framed shot, tells me cell-phone, with either or combination of "look what I did","look what we have to do", "can you believe this...?", hopefully not "man, what a great idea!".
The inconclusive part. No dunnage. The cardboard sleeve still on bar to left, a short section would suffice. Web slings built to sustain intermittent friction, this 3" or 4" bar could be a part with substantial number of features, and corresponding extended spindle time. That $1200 bar stock doesn't care about a $70 sling, though next user might.
I'd play about extinguisher being out of date, that's just silly, but what the heck are hanging cardboard sheets for, so high in the upper right? Worst motivational posters ever!