Forklift help anyone

I'm little to no help here, but calling someone may be a good idea.
I've turned a wrench or three on our little fleet at work. Yale 25, Komatsu 15 manual (this is my baby, don't even think about asking to borrow it lol), and a big dumb Komatsu 5000.
When the Yale goes out, it goes all the way out since it's so electronic driven. The Koms are older and simpler. The big one broke an alternator belt just last week which doesn't sound like more than a 10 minute fix until you realize that unbolting the entire driveshaft flange and trying to flop it off to one side just to get the new belt around the drive pulley is required, after practically unbolting the water pump and fishing your hands down in some rather tight crevasses or you can take the weight off which by itself weighs more than the other forklifts themselves. The Yale jumped timing and was being serviced by a mechanic anyways. I got the belt replaced in about an hour, but of course the battery was dead by then.

Yeah... F working on them things.
 
I spent 12 yrs working on the damned things, everything is heavy, akeard , nasty and hot. It is a horribly tough mechanic/technicians job.The field is red hot for employment, most car techs that come over too it leave quickly, cant handle it. Young people dont like it either, hot,cold,nasty,physicall hell mechanic work. But it pays VERY WELL
 
Jason W. said:
I spent 12 yrs working on the damned things, everything is heavy, akeard , nasty and hot. It is a horribly tough mechanic/technicians job.The field is red hot for employment, most car techs that come over too it leave quickly, cant handle it. Young people dont like it either, hot,cold,nasty,physicall hell mechanic work. But it pays VERY WELL
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Sounds just like the generator industry .
And if you happen to find a young guy who can tough it out and has enough technical ability to fix anything, he doesn't have the personality to talk to customers and explain what he did and make them comfortable or worse yet is a total assist and runs them off.
 
Ron said:
Sounds just like the generator industry .
And if you happen to find a young guy who can tough it out and has enough technical ability to fix anything, he doesn't have the personality to talk to customers and explain what he did and make them comfortable or worse yet is a total assist and runs them off.
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A lot of the ones that did come over from Automotive ended up just being Parts changers, not real technicians
 
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