03.06.2015
Pallet Death Wish
Spotted in Germany, a man trimming a tree at a height of about four metres from a wooden pallet slipped onto the forks of a Kramer Allrad wheel loader.
A large wooden mallet is also seen beside the man, and one assumes he was using it at a similar height to drive the wooden stakes seen around the tree. Not only could the effort distract him and offset his balance, it could also help dislodge the pallet, causing him to fall.
As is often the case with pallet and fork Death Wishes the operator is nowhere to be seen. Could he be the one taking the picture? Hopefully the man trimming the trees did not become one of the many people who come to grief every year when using this form of access equipment! Definitely one for the Death Wish series.
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Trimming a tree from a wooden pallet attached to a wheel loader
Sherm
About 30 years ago I tried a similar stunt in a tractor bucket. There are so many gremlins hidden in such an environment that can cause the worker to fall to the status of injured or dead. If you are there some time look around you and see what gravity can pull you into and how it might happen. That reality will no longer be a dream...you will wake up change your ways and try to pass along the caution of fate that awaited you.
Old mate cutting the branch was most likely the operator...