Hello all and welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I\u2019m Marty and today let\u2019s talk about some of the equipment we\u2019re all using each day. First, I\u2019d like to thank everyone for the questions and suggestions sent in last week. We mentioned a Slip-Sheet attachment and I think it got us all thinking about those pieces of equipment we see or hear about but haven\u2019t been exposed to just yet. Before we discuss our equipment usage I\u2019d like to throw out a quick reminder to never get on or touch a piece of powered industrial equipment that we\u2019re not trained on or certified to do so. I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all tired of hearing it but it\u2019s the law and even more importantly it\u2019s a good rule that helps keep us and our coworkers Safe. We haven\u2019t mentioned the reg 29CFR1910.178 lately, if you\u2019re here in the states look it up, it\u2019ll give you some in site about its importance and purpose. And we here at WAOC would love to hear about any other countries regulations and how there implemented too.
\nSo, if you\u2019re in the warehousing industry one of the first pieces of equipment you\u2019ll experience could be the manual Pallet Jack. We spoke about the manual jack and its origin back in episode 36, Op\u2019s most go to piece of equipment, check that show out, its history is pretty interesting. Powered wise the Single Jack is usually our first step into powered equipment, wither a walkie, meaning you walk along with it and there\u2019s not an attached platform for you to stand on or a Rider which will have a platform if it\u2019s an End Control and an actual driver\u2019s compartment should it be a Center Drive or Center Control. Those of us that\u2019s used a Tow Truck or Tovar will recognize its driver compartment, I think they just engineered a tow truck that we use to pull buggies behind us with and added the load forks so we could select and pull pallets instead of having to fingerprint the products twice, once placing on a buggy and then again putting them on a pallet. We got smart quick once product started being loaded onto trucks with pallets instead of all the floor loads and learned to place the pallets on our buggies which could then be picked up by a forklift on the docks, what a time saver that was! Anyway, a single jack is great for loading and unloading trailers and moving freight around the warehouse and staging areas, close quarters and tight places. Then we have the Double Jack, simply a Rider jack that can pick up and haul two pallets at a time. A double jack is great for order selection, as we can pull twice the cube and cases with one pass through our pick path or thru warehouse. It\u2019s definitely a productivity maker. And when you talk about Selection Productivity there\u2019s the Tripple Jack, you guessed it, meaning we can pick up and haul 3 pallets at a time. The triple pallet jack is relatively new to the industry, but man has it helped product movement and metrics. It arrived on the scene around 2004 and it\u2019s been quite the game changer in our larger distribution operations. I actually had the privilege of working with a couple of manufacturers as their engineers worked out the load wheels and turning radius needed to navigate the aisles and end caps. Of course, this beast won\u2019t work in all environments, even some of the larger facilities ended up having to remove a few end bays and uprights to create the turning space needed but wow, we went from being able to select like 60 cube to 180 cube at a time or with each pass through the warehouse. That\u2019s real productivity, and pretty easy to achieve when all that travel time is cut out. Anyway, today as an order selector chances are we\u2019ll be working on a double or triple electric pallet jack.
\nAnother piece of equipment, the Cherry Picker or High-Rise machine. I actually operated the high-rise machine for about 2 years, the height took some getting us to but I really enjoyed working in that department. Something like this may be found in large item or bulk item storage c...