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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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I'll take you up on that. I haven't worked on forks but I certainly drive one, maintain it and am the stores safety advisor.
Take a look when it starts, he had to rev it to turn over, blew tonnes of black smoke. My guess is, it needs a major service. It looks like he is keeping the revs high to stop it stalling, then it finally picks up, but he has the throttle down too much, so it just jets off (has happened to me before).
Alternatively it is just about to run out of gas and he is using the last few drops to try and move it out of the way. During driving with minimal gas, the engine flutters in and out. This could also be the cause. Driving a fork that is spluttering, is like riding a bucking bull.
Just my two cents, check the vid out again, tell me that fork looks like it is running correctly. It isn't. I reckon he has his foot to the floor keepin it alive, if that was just accelerating too fast in reverse, he would have had time to jump off the accelerator then on the brake.