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Yikes. There’s a lot going on there and none of it is good. They worked harder blocking it up than they would have to unpin and lower the mast. I used to do the marine travel lifts with nothing but a set of long chains. They have ridiculously tall masts for stacking and putting boats in the water.
 

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That's all great and dandy the way they loaded it I suppose but it is still prone to shift. One thing is for sure you would get the scale masters attention crossing a scale. It probably says on the side of the cab in fancy
lettering {Flirting with Disaster} as their motto.
 

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Does look a bit sketchy.... but I've seen forklifts that you would have to remove the mast entirely as they wouldn't tilt much more with the cylinders detached or not.
 

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Well the asinine part is they had to lift that up to block it, seriously doubt they jacked it. So remove the hoses and pins and use what ever they lifted it with to remove the mast.
Being it's a forklift and all forklifts leak the pins should have come out without to much trouble. Biggest problem with that is stacking the dunage {three piece that can move plus it's setting on the tires and not
the frame.
 
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I recall a very similar forklift taking out a concrete beam on a bridge over I-90 at post 174, stopped the truck dead right there, blew all 8 tires on the trailer and launched the driver onto the hood of the truck. Kind of an ugly scenario.
Funny... it did not hurt the forklift.
 

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Be glad they didn't torch the mast in half and plan to weld it back together once it was delivered.

Maybe someone should tell them trailers bounce and if it were to bounce just right while going under a bridge, I'll bet they could still do some serious damage, also measuring means nothing when the county comes along and lays a layer of blacktop and forgets to remeasure and replace the sign that states clearance height, don't ask me how I know this, it was a very bad day, but the upside is, I now carry a grade rod in the truck just for such emergencies to measure before going under an overpass on any county road, just to be sure the sign is correct.
 

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Depending on how far it has to be moved, couldn't they drive it off the trailer when they came to something low and drive it back on, on the other side? It's on rubber tires so wouldn't damage the road.
 

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If any one of us tried that Murphy's law would prevail then it would be a case of staring at Johnny Law.
 

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Mine is 13'10" on the trailer. I've had to weave through intersections to avoid traffic lights, and a few times when I got to where I was going I found remnants of a phone line tangled up in the mast. I don't believe if I was 4" lower I would have cleared.
 

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Phone lines sag in the summer heat and what was once legal height in cool weather is no longer legal height in the dead of summer.

A local small po dunk town put all new phone lines up in the late fall. A local farmer moved his crop dryer from farm to farm and had no issues that fall. The next summer as he moved it back again he got every single phone line stung out across main street. Turns out the crew that put them up never accounted for the sag in hot weather.
 

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Phone lines sag in the summer heat and what was once legal height in cool weather is no longer legal height in the dead of summer.

A local small po dunk town put all new phone lines up in the late fall. A local farmer moved his crop dryer from farm to farm and had no issues that fall. The next summer as he moved it back again he got every single phone line stung out across main street. Turns out the crew that put them up never accounted for the sag in hot weather.

I tore down a pretty good sized cable TV line once and was just below legal height, I was told by the city cops that was not my problem, if its below legal... tough stuff for the utility.
But I knew a guy hauling a drill rig at 16' overall that bought a bunch of powerline. And it was not cheap.
 

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Funny this should come up. I saw two different low boys hauling fork lifts on I5 through Seattle with the steer axles of the fork lifts on the fifth wheel end of the trailer. They looked exactly like the posted photo except not being on blocks.
 

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^^ I've seen em' on lowboys like that every now and then, probably not quite as high as the blocking in the OP though..
 
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