Drum Clamp - Forklifts are meant to deal with storing, lifting and moving pallets. For businesses which handle items inside drums, you must utilize an attachment so as to store, move and lift them. There are various drum forklift attachments that you can get for all your drum lifting requirements. These attachments are specially used to be able to deal with drum containers - thus there is no risk of damage to the item or drum container when they are moved, lifted or stored.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner can be used to load and unload drums off of drum stands, vehicles and racks. These are presented in three and four tine models. This particular attachment is fully automatic, therefore enabling the individual operating it 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 particular attachment is used for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab could be mounted to the forks, with a designed purpose of handling steel drums that have rolling hoops. Even if the initial reason for the design was to deal with steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab could 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 another lift truck attachment that 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 utilizing a clamp which fits around the center of the drum. The rotation is performed by either a crank handle or a continuous loop chain. The crank handle is utilized for operations that occur below shoulder level. For operations which must occur higher than shoulder level, the continual circle chain will be used.
Drum tines are simple fork mounted attachment that could be designed for unstacking or stacking 210-liter steel drums. Stacking involves nothing fancy, merely simple horizontal positioning of the drums. The carriage-mounted attachments reduce the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs come in both semi-automatic and automatic versions which could be used in the tight head and open topped metal drum styles. The drum tongs could even be attached several different ways to the forklift. One method is to attach them beneath a fork-mounted hook. Another way is to connect them to a carriage mounted jib or a fork-mounted jib. Both the automatic and semi-automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no requirement for the operator to ever leave the seat of the forklift.
Rim Grip Handler
Whenever drums require storage space with limited spacing obtainable, the Rim Grip Drum Handler is the perfect alternative in drum forklift attachments. This particular attachment would work for both the two hundred ten liter drums as well as one hundred twenty liter drums. The Rim Grip Handler functions by utilizing steel jaws in order to grab the rim of the drum. It picks the drum up and puts it down without needing any space between all the drums. The average unit in the industry is a zinc-plated handler, although, this particular attachment is accessible in stainless steel for the food and drink industry.
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