Drum Clamp - Forklifts are designed to handle lifting, storing and moving pallets. For businesses that deal with products in drums, you should utilize an attachment to move, lift and store them. There are numerous drum forklift accessories that you can get for all your drum moving, lifting and storing requirements. These attachments are particularly designed to handle drum containers - hence there is no chance of damage to the product or drum container when they are lifted, stored or moved.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner can be used to load and unload drums off of racks, drum stands and vehicles. These are existing in three and four tine models. This particular attachment is fully automatic, thus enabling the operator to be able to operate all from the comfort of the lift truck seat. Able to move large and extra large plastic drums, steel, its capacity is 210 liters. This accessory is utilized for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab is fork designed and mounted with the sole purpose of handling steel drums that have rolling hoops. Even though the reason for the design was to deal with steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab can accommodate the transporting of extra large and large plastic drums. 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 lift truck attachment which mounts onto the blades themselves. Their purpose is to be able to lift the drum and rotate it upside down. The drum is clamped into the drum rotator using a clamp which fits around the middle of the drum. The rotation is performed by either a continuous loop chain or a crank handle. The crank handle is designed for operations that take place below shoulder level. For operations which should happen over shoulder level, the continuous circle chain will be used.
The drum tines are simple fork or carriage mounted attachments. They are designed for unstacking and stacking 210-liter metal drums. Stacking involves nothing fancy, just simple horizontal placement of the drums. The carriage-mounted attachments decrease the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs are obtainable both automatic and semi-automatic versions that could be utilized in the tight head and open topped metal drum styles. The drum tongs can likewise be attached in many different ways to the lift truck. One method is to attach them under a fork-mounted hook. Another way is to connect them to a carriage mounted jib or a fork-mounted jib. Either the automatic and semi-automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no need for the person operating it to ever leave the seat of the lift truck.
Rim Grip Handler
The Rip Grip Drum Handler is the best choice for forklift attachments, whenever there is a necessity to stockpile drums with limited space accessible. This accessory can be used on both one hundred twenty liter and two hundred ten litter drums. The Rim Grip Handler works by utilizing steel jaws to be able to hold the edge of the drum. It lifts the drum and sets it down without needing any space between all of the drums. The standard unit in the business is a zinc-plated handler, even though, this attachment is available in stainless steel for the food and drink market.
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