22.11.2012

A trailer lift with a difference

Spotted in Switzerland a company using a trailer mounted aerial lift, but it’s not what you expect from that terminology.

The lift, an UpRight or Snorkel Speed Level was rented out in the normal way and taken away from the rental yard on the back of a two axle trailer. As is often the case for this size of lift in Switzerland.

However when the user got to the run of trees he needed to work on he simply pulled his four by four and trailer up onto the kerb, started the lift and rather than unload it, proceeded to use it from the back of the trailer.
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The Speed Level trailer lift

And not only that he appears to have taken the machine to its full height, so you have to wonder if he needed the extra 500mm of so to the trailer bed for extra reach?

Fact is the trailer has no outriggers and the suspension is not blocked making this a very precarious machine. If it had gone over it could easily have fallen on an innocent passer by – make a mini-van full of people? To ‘add insult to injury’ our man has not even bothered to put up any warning signs or cones. Although he does have another vehicle covering his back end.

A most definite Death Wish - hopefully the rental company has explained how dangerous this is.