Chuck Ellis
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I hold on to my end. Have you ever been holding on to the end of a big heavy cast iron thing when the other end hits the concrete floor? It's an experience like no other!
Bill
I haven't done that, but a few years back when I had my own company, my partner and I were loading a 7,000# butter fly valve into a box using two fork lifts... my partner had the 5K lift and I had the 2K... he got faster than me when we started lowering the valve, my forklift blades took the brunt of the load, the counterbalance on the back side was raised about 18" in the air before the valve slipped off my blades... the counter balance fell 18" landing on the rear steering wheels which are about 10 or 12" diameter, solid rubber on steel rims...I think that is another time I've come close to a broken neck... I learned all about whiplash and had a headache for 3 days... we hired a crane to load the other 4 valves.