Shop neighbor knocked over a surface grinder!

[930dreamer]

Shop across the parking area belongs to a retired machinist, everything is in storage now. He was moving a surface grinder out and down the sloped concrete apron and the machine slipped off the forks. Not sure how/if it was tied down, broke most of everything on the front of the grinder. Didn't feel right to take any pics at the time.

 

[Dave455]

A guy I knew was moving out and had to shift a vertical mill.

Too stingy to get it shifted professionally he was using jacks, skates and a forklift, and of course he dropped the thing on to the concrete floor!

When the landlord came round he uttered the fateful words 'here's your deposit back - after all the place is unfurnished and I've never known anyone break a concrete floor.....!'

 

[michelin]

Your neighbor is better than all of mine who are scared of the site of the car with hood up and use their garages to store personal junk.

 

[Ign]

Your neighbor is better than all of mine who are scared of the site of the car with hood up and use their garages to store personal junk.

It sounds like he's in a commercial area

 

[michelin]

It sounds like he's in a commercial area

You don't know how much better it made me feel. I almost love my neighbors now

 

[Corndoggeh]

Your neighbor is better than all of mine who are scared of the site of the car with hood up and use their garages to store personal junk.

Id rather have a retired machinist as a neighbor than the ones I have now, one complained that my electric impact wrench was disturbing the peace at 3pm and that I shouldn't be messing with my own truck.

 

[fatfillup]

Id rather have a retired machinist as a neighbor than the ones I have now, one complained that my electric impact wrench was disturbing the peace at 3pm and that I shouldn't be messing with my own truck.

Did you thank him for his input and continue with what you were doing?

I am fortunate that most of the lots on our street are 1/2 acre and up so we are not on top of one another compared to a town home community and my neighbors are older and have been in a semi rural setting for decades. They are used to farm noise and would not complain about a little noise now and then. While we don't socialize, we all do get along.

As to the OP and the neighbor who dropped his surface grinder. That is unfortunate. Hope it can be put back into service without costing a fortune.

 

[930dreamer]

^^^ He mentioned scraping it, I don't remember the maker.

 

[jchetty]

Shop across the parking area belongs to a retired machinist, everything is in storage now. He was moving a surface grinder out and down the sloped concrete apron and the machine slipped off the forks. Not sure how/if it was tied down, broke most of everything on the front of the grinder. Didn't feel right to take any pics at the time.

Sorry, I'm not following. Is he hurt or what happened? Hope everyone is ok. Not sure I understand what is going on? Was it connected and spewed material everywhere? Was he hurt bad?

 

[930dreamer]

No one hurt, grinder fell face first onto the concrete from the forklift. Oil went everywhere.

 

[Teenager with old tools]

Your neighbor is better than all of mine who are scared of the site of the car with hood up and use their garages to store personal junk.

My garage is full of our **** smaller property no room for shed. So we work on. cars in driveway


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[crbassassin]

one complained that my electric impact wrench was disturbing the peace at 3pm and that I shouldn't be messing with my own truck.

Do you live on a block that has HOA? If not you could tell your nosey neighbor to P--- Off.

 

[macgyver37]

Unfortunately I have seen the same thing happen more than once, forks of a forklift are very slippery when mated with cast iron or steel. A person can get away with moving things in a perfect environment, but as soon as you encounter a slope or hole or you turn too quick etc, the load can shift and or fall off very easily. I will put a board or even cardboard in between the forks and load and it is amazing the difference, things stay put.

 

[930dreamer]

The machinist is having a shop sale fri-sat.