Saw one of these 4way machines for the first time this week. Maybe they've been out for a while and I just live under a rock.


They look like the typical piggyback, but the front tires rotate for sideways operation. The thing can literally spider-walk sideways to get into tight spots. You just flip a lever and the steering wheel controls the front two wheels instead of the back(which you have to turn 90degrees before)

Brilliant design, though they still seemed a bit underpowered and are shod with tiny tires that bog down too easily. The forks do scissor out, but I didn't see a side-to-side automatic fork adjustment. I despise having to jump out to slide a fork over.

Anyway, I make do just fine with skid-loaders, but I might actually consider trading the new holland for one of these. There are some spots that 885 is just too long to get into, and if it does fit it tears up anything it turns over. It's hard to beat those tank tracks though.

5/24/2006 10:10:39 PM

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.....

i have no problem admitting that innovations like this in forklift technology are the hot shit

5/24/2006 10:23:43 PM

i can spider walk to get into tight places, too. big damn deal

5/24/2006 10:58:17 PM

the best is the line pointing to the tires

5/25/2006 12:00:02 AM

awesome

too bad there's no use for anything that fancy in my all-concrete environs

5/25/2006 1:00:00 AM

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"Tires"

5/25/2006 2:27:50 PM

hahaha.

5/25/2006 9:53:27 PM