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a two-ton ballet dancer that exists solely to lift things you can't
means A powered industrial vehicle with two horizontal prongs at the front that slide under and hoist heavy loads, especially on pallets, then carry and stack them.
from A plain compound of "fork" and "lift," coined in the early 20th century when warehouses first put motorized lifting trucks to work. "Fork" goes back to Latin "furca," the two-pronged farming and dining tool, whose forked shape was an obvious match for those two steel tines; "lift" is an old Norse-rooted word (related to "loft," the air overhead) meaning to raise something up. So the name says exactly what the machine does: it forks, then it lifts.
- Counterweight trick
- Most of its weight is in the rear, balancing the load
- License required
- Driving one legally needs more training than a car
- Origin
- Born from labor shortages during World War I
- Tip danger
- They tip sideways far easier than forward
- Steers backward
- Rear wheels turn, making tight pivots possible
toyota 8fgu25 — world's best-selling forklift model with over 1 million units produced
hyster h120xl — heaviest capacity forklift, lifts 12,000 lbs at toyota's warehouses
toyota 7fgu18 — most common forklift in european logistics centers since 1990s