Aerial Work Platforms - There are a lot of attachments utilized for forklifts which can be used in order to help expand the capabilities of your forklift and allow you to lift items, handle materials with less effort or to finish clean-up jobs.
A lot of the attachments are specially designed in order to fit on the blades themselves. Blade extensions for example, are utilized if you require more fork length, which increases lifting capability. Fork extensions come in lengths varying from forty eight to one hundred twenty inches. Triangular or rounded attachments are one more type utilized whenever moving rolled material so as to make sure it does not roll off of the typical flat blades.
Lifting attachments could be pivoting and telescoping crane attachments. They come in numerous kinds. These accessories are normally utilized for transferring lumber, metal bars, poles or whichever type of bulky stuff. Other accessories like various kinds of hook plates and hooks are available to be able to carry things using a chain or sling. Slab filters and magnetic filters are other stuff which can be utilized along with hook accessories. Slab lifters are specialized attachments which are used for picking up various materials that are delivered in a slab or sheet format. Rug rams or carpet poles are other lifting tools that attach to your lift truck to make moving rolls of carpet much easier. The accessory hooks onto the lift truck's forks and has a pole which goes through the center of the carpet roll.
There are many kinds of lift truck attachment used for facility maintenance such as snow blades. These industrial forks can be attached to front end loaders and intended for transferring materials such as snow, dirt as well as mulch. Other popular cleanup accessories comprise standard sweepers and magnetic sweepers. Standard sweepers comprise a broom that the forklift forks connect onto for sweeping big spaces like for instance parking lots or warehouse and factory floors. The magnetic sweeper is the same except that it has a magnetic plate rather than bristles. The magnetic sweeper is utilized in places where there is lots of metal debris like on shop floors for example. Sweepers have widths up to 60 inches and this surface area makes clean up quick and easy.
Material spreaders are other attachments used on lift trucks. These spreaders are helpful for a range of applications like for instance spreading seeds, ice melt, rock salt, pellets, fertilizers and insecticides.
Work platforms are another optional lifting accessory which many companies make use of daily. The platforms range in size from 36" x 36" to up to 60" x 60". There are some units offered which are capable of folding up and storing into a smaller space. Work platforms are designed to raise employees up to an overhead location making use of the forklift. Larger platform models have added space for employees to be able to bring tools and other essential objects for the task. Usually work platforms are constructed of steel or ploy material.
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