All warehouses, from Home Depot, Costco, Walmart, Safeway, Superstore, insert some random warehouse name, all use that type of racking. They are designed to hold the weight of the items, not to have one of the support legs taken out by a 5000 lb forklift.

When the first set of racks came down, it took down the other racks too.

fucken idiots that are pushing the car out. They need to have a spotter out there to make sure that doesn't happen.

wow, they all fell down like dominoes...

epic fail right there!

hahaha

Perhaps the forklift needs to upgrade to brembo brakes...
A spotter would have helped indeed, but the fact the car was sticking out in clear view for at least a good 5 to 6 seconds, and a forklift going like 15km/h should have been able to easily stop in time.

There are several types of racking systems. There's even a California style racking system that can sustain high magnitude earthquakes.

Clearly, the warehouse should be at fault for not taking the measures to protect the corners of these rackings close to high traffic areas. There are these upright guards now available to protect these corners in case a forklift loses control and clips a corner similar to what happened in the video. Take a walk around Richmond IKEA warehouse and they're placed along high traffic areas (i worked there).

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:v.../RackGuard.jpg

And do you think those things are going to keep a 5000 lb forklift from bending the racking?

I've been working in warehouses for over 12 years now. In that time, I have seen all sorts of things people have tried to prevent racks from getting hit, yet they still do. Those things you posted, they are bolted to the ground. Most of them are bolted down by 4 bolts. so let's review this. 5000 lb emplty forklift vs rack guard bolted down to the ground by four 1/2 inch bolts.

You sir deserve a double fail.

forklifts arent suppose to travel forward, which that guy was doing AND WITH a crate BLOCKING HIS VIEW. he's also not suppose to have the forks that high up off the ground.

whoop di doo

It's better than nothing. Yes these guards can still be knocked out but these act like barricades to help absorb impacts from all types of forklifts. And if you had any common sense you'd know that an unprotected racking system can easily bend/sustain a damage from a light nudge even from an small electric powered forklift.

And so what was your point of posting up pics of those rack guards?
Would these rack guards have been enough to prevent the racks from coming down in the first video?

Actually, I'm wondering if the racks were secured properly. There are racks where the rails are NOT bolted to each other but rather only to the vertical posts, which would explain why everything fell over. Must've been scary to find 2000 glass bottles raining down onto you.

So much damage for such a light nudge. :lol And yes, the crash barricades probably would've taken enough of the bump to prevent damage to the posts.

Forklifts are not the easiest thing to use from my understanding, the controls are somewhat different from a car. My friend once took out a 1/2" glass door (front door of a Cold Beer + Wine store too :lol) because he accidentally nudged it during a very slow turn.

I want to know what the owner of the tsx said. after skunk told him what happened

These should be mandatory around high traffic areas and especially along the corners. In some IKEA warehouses, there are double barricades along the corners in high traffic areas. They may/may not protect the racking system from this idiot in the video but we don't really know since there are also several factors why a racking system can come down fast like unknown bent frames on the inside and possibly extremely heavy loads on the top tier. Regardless, it's pretty obvious that these rack guards are necessary for visual, safety, and insurance purposes.

I remember reading somewhere that it was staged because the tsx was to be returned to honda for crushing so the guys decided to beat it up a bit before returning it. the car was a preproduction model.

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From watching the first video, it looks like these were the racks where the horizontal beams have tabs that slide into the verticle post.

Most forklifts are pretty much the same. You have a throttle, a brake, and soemthing to steer with. But the actual driving of them might be hard to grasp in the begining, especially if you are driving a Raymond style like the one in the video.

As for going back to the racks collapsing, keep in mind that each pallet probably weighs quite a bit. Even the slightest bend in the upright rack will bring that section down.
Watched the video again, the boxes are 12 on a layer and 4 high.
Assuming they are 9x1L, that makes each box around 10 lbs each. So, each pallet is around 535 lbs.

+1, staged.

FUCKING IDIOT.

He's driving forks up FORWARD.

wow massive fail.

99 thousand bottles of vodka on the shelf, 99 thousand bottles of vodka... you take a forklift, into vtak you shift, and zero bottles of vodka on the shelf...

thats was a life size domino effect. as for the forklift and the car, i thought there was someone actually in the car and the forks just passed right through the sides of the person. crazy shit

forklift video is totally fake. you can tell just by the way the guys are talking.
YOU ARE SO FIRED.
yeah right

Wow, I've never seen someone get so excited over warehouse racking...

lol owned

in this repost these guys actually did this shit on purpose. LMAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTjA8eRx5oY