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Lift Truck Attachments / Options
December 1st, 2008 by Shenron
Besides the main lift truck unit, you can find many options and attachments to fit your specific warehouse, industrial or commercial needs best. Following is information regarding tire types, attachments and safety features that are available with most lift type trucks.
Tire Types
There are two main types of tires that are generally sold for lift trucks; they include cushion tires and pneumatic tires. Cushion tires are solid tires; they can come with tread or without. They are made specifically for indoor uses and require no air.
Pneumatic tires are usually the standard and are perfect for indoor or outdoor use. They are great on level or irregular surfaces, however since pneumatic tires raise the center of gravity for their trucks, they have a reduction in their lift capacity.
Attachments
Attachments are extremely popular with lift truck owners and they can add extended or specialized functionality. There are a wide range of attachments available; here are the most common.
Mast Options
Masts can come with a variety of sections usually in single, double, triple or quad sections. In many situations, if you are lifting a pallet or load a certain height, your masts will come already loaded with the proper amount of sections. Generally speaking, the more masts a lift truck has, the more stable the load will be at extreme heights- cutting down on the wobble factor.
Sideshift
While sideshifts are attachments, they normally come standard with most lift trucks. A sideshift allows the fork carriage a little lee-way both left and right to accurately place the load. Sideshifts are extremely effective and increase productivity levels making loads much more flexible to place.
Fork Positioner
This attachment allows you to manipulate the distance between the forks on a mast. If your operation has many different varieties of pallets, this attachment can be extremely useful.
Slip Sheet Attachment
A slip sheet attachment is used where a sheet of cardboard or plastic are used instead of standard pallets. Slip sheet attachments include a push and pull mechanism that easily attaches to the slip sheet and pulls or pushes the load.
Drum Handling Attachments
Drum handling attachments make it extremely easy for your lift truck to transport 55 gallon drums. It should be noted that there are also drum handling attachments that can carry more than one drum at a time.
Fork Extensions
A fork extension easily slides over the existing fork to enable the lift truck to pick up longer loads.
Height Selector
Used in warehouses or environments where the height of the load or rack is already predetermined and can be present into the lift truck.
Lift Truck Safety Features
It should be noted that the above attachments must be approved by OSHA to be used for commercial and industrial applications. Besides all attachments being reviewed by OSHA, other safety features regarding lift trucks are available.
Roll Cages for Lift Trucks
A roll cage protects the operator from falling items or from items that move abruptly during transport or if a crash has occurred.
Seat Belts for Lift Trucks
Seat belts are featured in lift trucks that have seats
Dead Pedals for Lift Trucks
Dead pedals require a pedal to be depressed in order for a lift truck to operate. If you release your foot from the pedal, the lift truck will come to a smooth stop.
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Truck anti theft device
September 30th, 2008 by Shenron
Truck get stolen every minute. Expert thieves need only a few seconds to open your truck. They can easily bypass the alarm system you have installed and drive away freely. Then you ask why it was stolen when you just installed the latest truck alarm system.
Truck alarms and anti theft device are from the opposite end of the light spectrum, with steering bolts a distant cousin. Truck alarms and bolts are merely deterrents; they only delay the process by a few seconds and cost the thief a few calories.
Anti-theft devices effectively prevent thieves from taking your truck by disabling the ignition system every time the truck is forced open. Disabling the ignition system makes it impossible to hotwire the truck, even by the most experienced truck thief. For total truck protection, go for anti-theft devices. They are professionally tested to be the most fool proof anti- truck theft device that no one has outsmarted yet.
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