Stacking Pallets / Presenting Pallets to Customers 

Learn how to stack a stone pallet, how to load a hopper, and how to keep bins clean so you can easily drive a forklift into them. 

• When you're stacking a pallet, you want to start with the perimeter, and make sure nothing is hanging off the edges. 
• Then you'll fill in the center. As you're laying the rock down, be sure to bend at the knees to protect your back. Lift with your legs. 
• When you lay down each layer of rock, stagger, or straddle rocks so each is supported by two or three rocks. 
• Avoid stacking the pallet where you have runs of rock that run vertically one on top of the other, because this could make the pallet liable to topple. 
• Stack the pallet until it's waist-high. 
• When you're restocking new pallets, remove the chicken wire so the customers can access them. 
• After you cut the chicken wire off a pallet, take it to the designated area. 

Loading the Hopper / Trucks Loading 

The hopper is great practice for loading trucks. 

• You want to make sure you're close enough to get in, but not so close you hit the edge. 
• In the video we see how our driver got close to the hopper but didn't touch it so he wouldn't damage it. 

Keeping Bins Clean 

Eddie presents a bolder bin in the video. 

• We lift the boulders with a forklift, and so all of the debris and loose gravel will get in your way and make it harder to get a forklift in the bin. 
• Whenever you have downtime, you can grab a hopper and start cleaning up to make your time easier, when you want to get at the boulders.