Aerial Work Platforms - There are lots of attachments used for forklifts which can be used in order to help expand the capabilities of your forklift and allow you to lift stuff, handle materials with greater ease or to accomplish clean-up tasks.
Lots of the accessories are particularly designed to fit on the blades themselves. Fork extensions for example, are used if you require much more fork length, which increases lifting capacity. Fork extensions come in lengths varying from forty eight to one hundred twenty inches. Rounded or triangular accessories are one more kind utilized if moving rolled material in order to ensure it does not roll off of the standard flat blades.
Lifting attachments can be pivoting and telescoping crane accessories. They come in various styles. These accessories are usually intended for transporting metal bars, poles, lumber or any sort of bulky objects. Additional attachments like for instance different styles of hooks and hook plates are available to be able to lift stuff utilizing a chain or sling. Magnetic lifters and slab lifters are other things that can be used together with hook accessories. Slab lifters are specialized accessories which are designed for picking up various materials that are delivered in a sheet or slab format. Carpet poles and rug rams are other lifting tools which attach to your lift truck to be able to make transferring rolls of carpet easier. The accessory connects onto the forklift's forks and has a pole which goes through the center of the carpet roll.
There are various types of forklift accessory used for facility maintenance such as snow blades. These industrial blades could be connected to front end loaders and utilized for moving materials such as dirt, and mulch as well as snow. Other popular cleanup attachments include standard sweepers and magnetic sweepers. Standard sweepers includes a broom which the lift truck forks hook onto for sweeping large spaces like for example parking lots or warehouse and factory floors. The magnetic sweeper is similar except that it has a magnetic plate rather than bristles. The magnetic sweeper is utilized in areas where there is lots of metal fragments such as on shop floors for example. Sweepers have widths up to 60 inches and this surface area makes clean up fast and easy.
A material spreader is another lift truck attachment that is often used at facilities. These spreaders are helpful for various applications like for instance spreading pellets, fertilizers, insecticides, seeds, ice melt and rock salt.
Work platforms are another optional lifting attachment that many companies make use of on a daily basis. The platforms range in size from 36" x 36" to up to 60" x 60". There are a few models accessible which are capable of folding up and storing into a smaller space. Work platforms are designed to raise personnel up to an overhead location with the use of the lift truck. Larger platform models have extra space for personnel to carry tools and other necessary objects for the task. Normally work platforms are made of steel or ploy material.
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