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Tandem forklift appliance delivery fail.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...564#post201177
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...383#post196591
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...289#post121698
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...796#post190548
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...455#post116927

It had to happen. Mr. Murphy would not let that go well, he would lose all credibility if he had.

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Originally Posted by tonyfoale

It had to happen. Mr. Murphy would not let that go well, he would lose all credibility if he had.

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Mr. Murphy must have been busy that day enforcing the law in other places. He could have had so much more fun with that situation!!

It did not go as badly as I had imagined when I saw the very first frame of the video.

Jobs like that are why these were invented
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If it wasn't knackered before, it certainly is now.

The baby forklift disappointed the papa forklift!

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Originally Posted by Frank S

Jobs like that are why these were invented
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What are they called in Texas? In Canada we call them zoom booms or telehandlers. I heard you have different names down there.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

What are they called in Texas? In Canada we call them zoom booms or telehandlers. I heard you have different names down there.

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Much like the name Bobcat has become the generic name for skid steers no matter the brand, the brand of telehandler that is often associated with these construction lifts is Sky-track. The pet name on many sites will be skyhook. "Go get the skyhook". The one I used to have I called it the monster-smash, befitting of its nickname it was a cantankerously old clunky difficult to operate monstrosity that would easily smash everything in its way, additionally it had a 15 ft tall jib mounted to the crown of the boom with a winch making it sort of a stiff neck crane. Fork it, hook it or smash it every time we used it became an adventure.

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Originally Posted by Frank S

Much like the name Bobcat has become the generic name for skid steers no matter the brand, the brand of telehandler that is often associated with these construction lifts is Sky-track. The pet name on many sites will be skyhook. "Go get the skyhook". The one I used to have I called it the monster-smash, befitting of its nickname it was a cantankerously old clunky difficult to operate monstrosity that would easily smash everything in its way, additionally it had a 15 ft tall jib mounted to the crown of the boom with a winch making it sort of a stiff neck crane. Fork it, hook it or smash it every time we used it became an adventure.

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Similarly around here (NE USA) these are often referred to as "Lull lifts" or just "Lulls" due again to a particular manufacturers brand name becoming a generic term for that style machine.

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Originally Posted by clavius

Similarly around here (NE USA) these are often referred to as "Lull lifts" or just "Lulls" due again to a particular manufacturers brand name becoming a generic term for that style machine.

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Yeah Lull has been around for a long time

Huh. I've never once heard anyone call them "sky-track", "lull lift" or "lulls." And around here a "sky-hook" is a crane. Interesting.

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Huh. I've never once heard anyone call them "sky-track", "lull lift" or "lulls." And around here a "sky-hook" is a crane. Interesting.

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Maybe a little older than most lulls
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I like Zoom Boom the best!!! Had not heard that lil now.

Anybody know how I can find brake parts for a Dyna hoe telehandler with spicer steering/drive axles? late 70s vintage

[QUOTE=Tooler2;209095]Anybody know how I can find brake parts for a Dyna hoe telehandler with spicer steering/drive axles? late 70s vintage[/QUOTE
For me I find the best way to locate parts for vintage built machinery is to first try and determine what those parts may have been used on other types of equipment. IE the spicer axles, will be Dana- Spicer, and could have been used on many things. Not the least of which were the M series Military tactical vehicles.
Pulling 1 od the wheel assemblies off snapping some pictures of the brake shoes and wheel cylinders if hydraulic brakes then and I don't believe I'm saying this do a google picture comparison search.
In 1971 Bucyrus-Erie Company acquired the Hy-Dynamic Corporation, the Dyna hoe name was retained the Bucyrus -Erie company was getting into more aspects of the construction industry along about that time building backhoes rough terrain cranes and so forth sometime then later sold off to Northwest Engineering/BHP I think later Terex came into play and still later Caterpillar. I think Gehl became the Dyna telehandlers in the late 1980s

I'm just glad the guy on the second story forklift had his seat belt on!!!!

I used to operate and maintain this Pettibone back in the early 1980's...
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