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Conduct Forklift Drive-Over Durability Test

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What happens here

The polyethylene bed of the Cargo Max trailer is removed from its frame for an extreme durability test. A JCB 506C telehandler (forklift), weighing approximately 12,000 lbs, is repeatedly driven over the detached bed. The forklift drives over the bed crosswise, lengthwise, and then crosswise again, causing significant temporary deformation but no cracking or breaking of the material. This stage also includes footage of robots cutting the polyethylene beds in the factory, providing insight into the manufacturing process.

Goal: Subject the trailer bed to extreme crushing forces.

Tools and materials

  • FLOE Cargo Max Utility Trailer Bed FLOE — The primary subject of the durability test
  • JCB 506C Telehandler — Applying crushing force to the trailer bed

What they say

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little bit out of that but [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Music] we can flip it over so we're going to do that again we're going to do it lengthwise now [Music] so is that gonna come back to life you think i think that will pop back i don't see any cracking or anything like that do you i don't here will you hold this i'm gonna try to pop it back you can see right where the tire went on it but i bet if i hit that with a hammer i can get that to pop back into there's a little bit of a wall right there but i think you could i think you could do what you just said still make a trailer out of this thing it didn't crack it let's do it again he wants to do it again just lengthwise or both whoa let's just let's just do both again just non-stop let's just smack that son of a duck kind of impressive that it doesn't crack it though isn't it and it's cold out [Music] don't cut don't edit don't change this i want to see how this looks can you come over here so we got no cracking on the side you guys are like oh nobody's ever gonna run their trailer over but a log a tree might fall on them you might be loaded and have something hit the side so this kind of proves that it's not going to crush i don't even see this isn't even broken let's see if we can bang this out

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