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Originally Posted by multiweb
Yeah, saw that on the news this morning. What an idiot. It takes a fair bit of flooring to get a gas forklift to take off like that. It's not "an accident". Hopefully he learnt his lesson.
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Actually you floor forklifts quite often, routinely in fact. One common reason is to raise the tower, but you are supposed to put your left foot on the brake. Technically you should apply the handbrake before raising or lowering the tower but I've never seen anyone do that in practise. I think it was just a moments inattention.