On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:55:54 -0600, philo* wrote:

On 01/06/2014 04:13 AM, micky wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:24:46 -0600, philo wrote:

I was just going through some 2005 photos and found one I took at work.
Some of my crewmen setting up a battery room.



https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...58483055_o.jpg



I was a service engineer at Enersys-Delaware


BTW: That is only half the room, there was an identical setup on the
other side.

It looks like they're set up to do something, not just wait until
they're needed. What do they do?




Those are batteries for forklift trucks. The battery extractor is the
item you see at the back of the photo. It can extract a battery from a
forklift and go up four levels to retrieve one.

Propane forklifts are rarely used in warehouses any more and are mostly
used for extremely large loads, OTOH: The batteries pictured here are
merely average size. They can be as large as 4000# and require a
completely different system to install and extract.

Good to know. Thanks.