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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 4619" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Eight frame extractors with no lids, one slip and it would have been curtains. Easy loaders which were great for moving singles but we mostly use them for pallets of hives and it was just too close to their weight limits. You had to get right underneath the hives sometimes to get them on the truck and both the ones we had eventually just folded with no warning. Fortunately nobody was underneath them at the time but I wouldn't have another one. Drum barrows were a huge improvement on physically pushing them over onto an old tire and then rolling them onto tractor forks. The worst accident I can recall was when I was still at school. I was cleaning comb honey sections on a wire brush and my father was unloading a truck a few meters on the other side of a wall. He slipped on the deck and caught his armpit on a hook use for hanging ropes. He was lifted off and then carted off in an ambulance with me none the wiser. He was off work for two weeks and it was probably one of the few decent holidays he had in his life..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 4619, member: 207"] Eight frame extractors with no lids, one slip and it would have been curtains. Easy loaders which were great for moving singles but we mostly use them for pallets of hives and it was just too close to their weight limits. You had to get right underneath the hives sometimes to get them on the truck and both the ones we had eventually just folded with no warning. Fortunately nobody was underneath them at the time but I wouldn't have another one. Drum barrows were a huge improvement on physically pushing them over onto an old tire and then rolling them onto tractor forks. The worst accident I can recall was when I was still at school. I was cleaning comb honey sections on a wire brush and my father was unloading a truck a few meters on the other side of a wall. He slipped on the deck and caught his armpit on a hook use for hanging ropes. He was lifted off and then carted off in an ambulance with me none the wiser. He was off work for two weeks and it was probably one of the few decent holidays he had in his life.. [/QUOTE]
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