Masonry Magazine November 1962 Page. 6
Shown above are four views of fork lift truck being operated over rough terrain and under pressing conditions. Photos at left show full lift trucks, one almost axle-deep, maneuvering through muck and mire. At right, lift truck places slab of stone into position for me
Through Thick and Thin A Lift Truck
There is no such thing as a "clean" construction site. If there isn't a tremendous amount of mud (it doesn't take much rain to get a mountain of it), debris may be scattered over a good portion of the work area. In northern climes there's sleet and snow - when it's warm enough to lay brick the mild temperature produces "mush."
With these is the ever-present problem of moving materials to the point of production. And that's where the versatile lift truck comes in. The fork lift copes with bogging mud. The four-wheel drive gets its fully loaded steel fingers through muck and mire. Even with the machine angled in a rut, level loading is possible.
For the high-rise job a lift truck provides an economical, efficient way of moving materials to all points of work. The lift has become a time-saver for the mason contractor on the move as job after job has proven to him the value of mechanizing the moving of material.
The above photos by no stretch of the imagination exhaust the functions the lift performs under verse conditions. But they show you, the mason contractor, some of the pace they are put through. Through thick and thin the lift truck operates in axle-deep mud and places mortar, brick, and other masonry materials within reach of the mason. As one manufacturer says of the lift truck used in rough terrain, "It goes through with the regularity of the U. S. Mail."