Drum Clamp - Forklifts are designed to deal with moving, lifting and storing pallets. For businesses that handle products in drums, you must make use of an attachment to be able to lift, store and move them. There are several drum forklift attachments that you could obtain for all of your drum storing and moving requirements. These attachments are particularly meant in order to handle drum containers - hence there is no chance of damage to the product or drum container when they are moved, lifted or stored.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner could be utilized to load and unload drums off of vehicles, racks, and drum stands. These are available in three or four tine models. This particular attachment is totally automatic, hence allowing the person operating it to be able to operate all from the comfort of the forklift seat. Able to move steel, large and extra large plastic drums, its capacity is 210 liters. This accessory is meant for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab could be mounted to the forks, with a designed purpose of handling metal drums which have rolling hoops. Although the original reason for the design was to handle steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab can help accommodate plastic drums too. Drum capacity maximum is 220 liters for plastic barrels and 210 for steel drums with rolling hoops.
The Rotator
The drum rotator is one more forklift accessory which mounts onto the blades themselves. Their objective is to be able to lift the drum and rotate it upside down. The drum is clasped into the drum rotator utilizing a clamp which fits around the middle of the drum. The rotation is executed by either a crank handle or a continuous loop chain. The crank handle is designed for operations which take place below shoulder level. For operations which must happen over shoulder level, the continuous loop chain will be utilized.
The drum tines are simple fork or carriage mounted accessories. They are used for stacking and unstacking 210-liter steel drums. Stacking requires nothing fancy, merely simple horizontal placement of the drums. The carriage-mounted attachments reduce the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs are obtainable both semi-automatic and automatic versions which could be used in the tight head and open topped metal drum kinds. The drum tongs can likewise be connected several various ways to the forklift. One method is to attach them under a fork-mounted hook. Another way is to attach them to a fork-mounted jib or a carriage mounted jib. Either the automatic and semi-automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no need for the one operating it to ever leave the seat of the forklift.
Rim Grip Handler
The Rip Grip Drum Handler is the ideal option for lift truck attachments, whenever there is a necessity to store drums with inadequate space available. This attachment can be utilized on both one hundred twenty liter and two hundred ten litter drums. The Rim Grip Handler operates by utilizing metal jaws to grab the edge of the drum. It lifts the drum and puts it down without requiring any room between all of the drums. The average model used in the business is a zinc-plated handler, although, this particular attachment is obtainable in stainless steel for the food and drink market.
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