Vintage set of the week: Forklift
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 615 Forklift, released during 1975. It's one of 16 LEGOLAND sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces.
It's owned by 1,117 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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But if there are no tines, then that's more like a spatulalift, isn't it?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Bit if there are no tines, then that's more like a spatulalift, isn't it?"
That is one ugly pancake.
Also, there are some weird, alternate attachments that can go on a forklift. The forks are usually adjustable side-to-side, with notches that they can lock into so they don't shift during operation. The forks themselves are typically then removable (and aren't even attached until after they're received by the customer). Alternate attachments that I'm aware of, besides just incredibly long forks that are capable of picking up two pallets at a time, include a long pole that can be used to pick up rolls of carpet by being inserted into the center of the roll, a clamp that can pick up all or part of the load and deposit it on a different pallet, or a slipsheeter that can pull the load to slide it onto two very wide spades and push it off to deposit it on another pallet. I think there's also a barrel clamp that can be specifically used to pick up 55 gallon drums, and there are probably other options for this style of forklift. In the furniture industry, there are also "man up" forklifts (where the operator rides up and down with the load, and is secured to the machine with a safety tether) that have wide beds attached where the forks would normally go, so they can roll furniture in and out of storage racks.
Very cute.
This is a song, about the crew's condition
They all feel like, they're gonna puke!
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
@MCLegoboy said:
"Bit if there are no tines, then that's more like a spatulalift, isn't it?"
Lol, nice. I like spatulalift better, but it might be a spoonlift.
I remember my sister had that piece. It had a spring inside, so you only had to push it down and it could lift small objects. it could get stuck if it was at an angle and couldn't lift large things, but it was still nice I guess.
@Harmonious_Building said:
"This is a song, about the crew's condition
They all feel like, they're gonna puke!
He tried to kill me with a forklift!"
Olé!
If this came out as a polybag it would bury 30655 on retro appeal over technical innovation XD
That's not very impressive. I lift those at supper time every day!
@GSR_MataNui said:
"That's not very impressive. I lift those at supper time every day! "
Good one, bro! XD
@BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Bit if there are no tines, then that's more like a spatulalift, isn't it?"
Lol, nice. I like spatulalift better, but it might be a spoonlift.
I remember my sister had that piece. It had a spring inside, so you only had to push it down and it could lift small objects. it could get stuck if it was at an angle and couldn't lift large things, but it was still nice I guess. "
Would it not have to be concave to be a spoon? If spatulalift is too much of a mouthful how about platelift?
The faceless one operates the machine by sheer force of will
The spatulalift kinda looks like an anachonism on this thing. Would have thought it to be something from the 80s.
@Arnoldos said:
"The faceless one operates the machine by sheer force of will"
Perhaps he's had a facelift.
If my parents remember it right, this was my first LEGO set I got as a child :-)
Spatulalift still works. No matter what i build as a kid, most of the time it ended up with the spatulalift somewhere randomly
I have (had?) this one. The lifting piece makes a great catapult.
@Brickodillosaid:"Spatulalift still works. No matter what i build as a kid, most of the time it ended up with the spatulalift somewhere randomly"
So it could stay in one place, relative to the mast?? In my only minifig-scale forklifts (the ones in 60020 and76045), the forks stay at the top unless there being pushed down.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickodillosaid:"Spatulalift still works. No matter what i build as a kid, most of the time it ended up with the spatulalift somewhere randomly"
So it could stay in one place, relative to the mast?? In my only minifig-scale forklifts (the ones in 60020 and76045), the forks stay at the top unless there being pushed down."
No, you’re correct - the lift is spring loaded and it stays at the top unless pushed down - or unless the spring breaks or gets lost, which is very common. :-)
Not sure why, but this makes me think of the 1980's German forklift training video...
@Brickalili said:
" @BlackFalconBirdman said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Bit if there are no tines, then that's more like a spatulalift, isn't it?"
Lol, nice. I like spatulalift better, but it might be a spoonlift.
I remember my sister had that piece. It had a spring inside, so you only had to push it down and it could lift small objects. it could get stuck if it was at an angle and couldn't lift large things, but it was still nice I guess. "
Would it not have to be concave to be a spoon? If spatulalift is too much of a mouthful how about platelift?"
Good call. Can't hold soup up with that thing - spatulalift it is.
@tmtomh said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Brickodillosaid:"Spatulalift still works. No matter what i build as a kid, most of the time it ended up with the spatulalift somewhere randomly"
So it could stay in one place, relative to the mast?? In my only minifig-scale forklifts (the ones in 60020 and76045), the forks stay at the top unless there being pushed down."
No, you’re correct - the lift is spring loaded and it stays at the top unless pushed down - or unless the spring breaks or gets lost, which is very common. :-)"
That's not what I was asking, but I see now that I phrased that badly. I interpreted "...most of the time it ended up with the spatulalift somewhere randomly" as meaning as meaning that the spatula was in a random position relative to the mast, and was asking if that meant that you could put it at one spot relative to the mast and it would stay there, but I realize now that by "ended up somwhere randomly," @Brickodillosaid meant that they used the assembly in random places on their models.
my very first set. Now about 2000...... :-)
@Arnoldos said:
"The faceless one operates the machine by sheer force of will"
For the time, it fit in well with similar sets. The kid playing with it pushes the lever down, moves the vehicle to pick up the crate, then releases it and it lifts the crate up and the kid drives the vehicle off to put it down. Just like cranes of the time being operated through a handle driven winch system. The crane I had in the 70s didn't even have a faceless figure, just the kid operated winch. But was fun to play with.
@madforLEGO said:
"Not sure why, but this makes me think of the 1980's German forklift training video... "
Actually, that cult film is from the year 2000. It's only made to look like one of those safety training videos from the 1980s.
That's until the splatter and gore takes over ;-)
I guess early Peter Jackson would love it. As would Monty Python (Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" anyone?)
Funny thing is, that "Staplerfahrer Klaus" video was the first thing that came to my mind too when I saw this set.
Given its age it's quite a clever lift mechanism which really worked well with the 924 Space transporter and made this set so much more fun than 918 . Just a shame it wasn't included in any other space sets apart from a 1981 service pack part 13 (in case you had broken or lost the mechanism). Although it did repair in 1990-94 airport sets.