SPOTLIGHT SAFE & VAULT All the Right Moves: Spinning a Load This article series provides information on safety tips, tools and equipment for safe techs. By Gene Gyure, CRL, CAI, GSAI least, I was leſt shaking my head. So, I asked myself, “What can I do about it?” Aſter thinking really hard about this T 30 question for several months, I finally came to the conclusion: absolutely nothing. I can’t stop people from doing unsafe moves or from using the wrong equipment for a job, or from not doing a site survey prior to bidding the job or making up an equip- ment list. I also can’t force people to understand their equipment or any of the many safety aspects of this industry. Excuses abound among those making the posts, but it all boils down to a lack of proper education — or in some cases, a lack of concern, because nothing bad has happened yet. My fear is that another safe tech or locksmith will see some of these posts and, without a proper education on the techniques and equipment used, might attempt safe and vault moves that result in injury — or even worse, death. It is not unusual for me to hear about someone who lost a leg, foot, finger or even his life because of a slip in judgment regarding safety concerns. Mostly, I hear about this from members of the moving industry, but members of our industry are not immune to the same con- sequences. My case in point would be, for those who knew him, the late Bob Stabley. My education in this field has come by way of learning from some of the very best in our industry, as well as personal experience. Who are some of the very best movers and riggers in the industry? In my opinion, they are Joe Henderson, Ed Stites, Frank Zykan, Bill Boughman’s crew, Dave Richardson, Neil Messick, Dave Fullarton and, of course, Rolland Dicks. Some of these guys took the time to help me understand, while the others showed me by example. There are a lot more movers and riggers out there that I know, but these are the guys who have influenced me personally. KEYNOTES MARCH 2021 he idea for this series of articles came about a few months ago while trying to decide what my next article submission to Safe & Vault Technology or Keynotes would be. I kept seeing posts on Face- book and ClearStar about others’ safe and vault moves that some- times made me cringe from the lack of safety concerns. At the very During the SAFETECH conventions for several years, SAVTA had presented a Safe Moving and Rigging class. This has usually been offered as a two-day ver- sion. There is so much information that needs to be covered that, in my opinion, the two-day class is necessary to cover as much as possible in the time available. It is my hope that this class might be re- vived for future SAFETECH conventions. So, what am I going to submit in these articles? Safety, tools, specialty equipment, cribbing, trailers, straps, trucks, safety, pallet jacks, roll-a-lifts, stairs and elevators, safety, aluminum sheeting, packing materials, safety, floor protection and much, much more. I will talk about ways you should and shouldn’t use certain equipment. There might also be interviews or references from others in the industry. The whole concept is to present a series of articles designed to help the beginner, as well as the intermediate, safe and vault mov- er become better and more conscien- tious movers and riggers. Oh, and did I mention there will be an emphasis on safety? So, here we go. Spinning a Load Have you ever pulled a safe off your trail- er or truck using a pallet jack and gotten it right up to where you need to go with it, only to find out that you have it sitting on the pallet jack the wrong direction? Now, before you can put the safe into place, you need to reorient the load to face the prop- er direction. How do you accomplish this without going through a bunch of steps and a lot of time? There is an easy way to do this; let me tell you about it. WWW.ALOA.ORG
