Forklift Attachments Make Your Forklift A Multi Faceted Tool
There are many dissimilar types of forklift attachments to do a wide range of jobs. There are attachments for all things from increasing the ways your forklift can pick things up to material handling and clean up.
Lifting attachments can be crane attachments that come in a collection of styles. They can be telescoping and pivoting. These attachments can be beneficial when involving lumber, poles and metal bars, as well as other long bulky items. There are also discrete styles of hooks and hook plates to lift items with a chain or sling. Other items that can be used with the hook attachments are slab lifters and magnetic lifters. Slab lifters are used for picking up discrete materials that come in a sheet or slab form. Other lifting tool are rug rams and floor covering poles. These are used to pick up whole rolls of carpet. The attachment hooks onto the forks and provides a pole that goes down the town of the floor covering roll.
There are a combine for attachments for the forks themselves. First are fork extensions. These are used when you need a little more fork length. They come in lengths ranging from 48 - 120 inches. Other is rounded or triangular attachments. These are used when involving rolled material to keep it from rolling off standard flat forks.
The next types of forklift attachments are for installation maintenance. There are snow blades, and front end loaders that can be used for snow dismissal or involving other materials such as dirt and mulch. Other clean up associated attachments contain sweepers and magnetic sweepers. standard sweepers are a broom that the forklift forks hook to for sweeping large areas like a work floor or parking lot. The magnetic sweeper is similar to the standard sweeper with the irregularity it is a magnetic plate instead of bristles. This is used on shop floors and parking lots where there is a lot of metal debris. With widths up to 60 inches these sweepers will make clean up quick and easy. Other facilities forklift attachment is a material spreader. These can be used to spread rock salt, ice melt, fertilizers, seed, insecticides, and pellets.
The last type I will cover are work platforms. These work platforms can range in size from 36 inches by 36 inches up to 60 inches by 40 inches. Some models are designed to fold up to store in a smaller space. These platforms are used to raise workers to an overhead work area with the use of a forklift. The larger platforms offer an area for workers to carry needed tools and other items to do the job. They can be made of steel or poly material.
As you can see there are many dissimilar types of forklift attachments. If you have a forklift you might want to look into attachments that can make your forklift more beneficial and make your workers more efficient by getting jobs done faster and easier.
