Memory Fails, So Check What You Know

This is Steven Petrick Posting:

One of the problems with finding "off site storage" is that we are talking about moving entire pallets weighing half a ton or more. For the sake of efficiency, we want to move these as "units", and not as piece parts. That is to say we want to load a pallet with its stack of goods onto a truck, drive it to the new location, and then move the pallet and its stack of goods as a complete unit into the new storage site.

The problem is that all of the sites available to us have a ledge (some more than one), about an inch in height that has to be crossed. Those of you have operated pallet jacks as opposed to a forklift know what this means, but in simple terms: You are NOT getting a pallet jack with a loaded pallet on it over that little bump.

The obvious thing is to get a ramp that the pallet jack can use to ascend over the bump, the problem is that such ramps (called docking plates) are usually designed to use at a dock, and have cleats under them that are higher than the bump.

Simple solution; take the cleats off. Ah, but our docking plate's cleats are welded on, so we will have to find one that we can remove the cleats from. They only cost $500.00. Too bad ours has them welded on. Yep, yes sir. We all know that the kleats are welded on.

We all knew it, but we finally decided to go look anyway.

At least that is $500.00 we are not spending.