Forklift to Load/Unload bagger from pickup?
Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: St. Augustine Florida
Done this way all the time. If you are wooried about it, ride down 18 to the farmers market and use their ramp. I have done that before but then you need another person to bring your truck back of course.
Cruiser
Joined: Sep 2007
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That's the way we do it at the dealer I work with. You take one of the metal pallets that the bike gets shipped on and you screw down a sheet of 3/4 plywood. Then you put a small piece of 2x4 leaning against it and the guy rides up onto the pallet and sits on the bike. You then pull under with the forks and lift him up even with the bed. He then rolls right off onto the bed forwards. Unloading would just be the opposite. I do it all the time.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Northern MI
Oh geez..... there has ALWAYS gotta be one in every crowd!
Tourer
Joined: May 2008
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From: Minnesota
I wouldn't worry about it. That's what the bikes are shipped on from the factory. We've actually got one of those at our shop for my dad to lift his Road King up onto the mezzanine for storage in the winter.
Intermediate
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: kansas city, mo
Yes, I have done this. Believe you will find HD dealers experienced at this, and have a specific forklift platform they use to load / off load a bike from a truck. They lifted the Ultra to my pickup bed height, rolled it on, and strapped it down. No charge.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Olympia Wa.
the company Danger Ranger getting in the way of progress.
but I guess as long as there are people without common sence, saftey depts will always have work.
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