Aerial Work Platforms - There are lots of attachments intended for lift trucks which could be utilized so as to help expand the capabilities of your lift truck and allow you to pick up items, handle materials with less effort or to accomplish clean-up tasks.
Lots of the attachments are specially designed in order to fit on the blades themselves. Blade extensions for example, are used if you require more blade length, which increases lifting capability. Blade extensions come in lengths ranging from 48-120 inches. Triangular or rounded attachments are one more type used whenever moving rolled material in order to make sure it does not roll off of the traditional flat forks.
Lifting attachments can be pivoting and telescoping crane accessories. They are available in many styles. These attachments are often meant for transferring poles, lumber, metal bars or whatever kind of bulky things. Other accessories such as other kinds of hooks and hook plates are offered to lift stuff making use of a chain or sling. Magnetic lifters and slab lifters are other stuff which could be used together with hook attachments. Slab lifters are specialized attachments which are designed for picking up a variety of materials that are delivered in a sheet or slab format. Carpet poles and rug rams are other lifting tools which attach to your lift truck to make transferring rolls of carpet easier. The accessory connects onto the forklift's blades and has a pole that goes through the middle of the carpet roll.
There are various types of lift truck accessory used for facility maintenance like for example snow blades. These industrial forks can be connected to front end loaders and used for transferring materials like for instance dirt, and mulch as well as snow. Other popular cleanup attachments consist of standard sweepers and magnetic sweepers. Standard sweepers includes a broom which the lift truck forks connect onto for sweeping large spaces like for example parking lots or warehouse and factory floors. The magnetic sweeper is similar except that it has a magnetic plate rather than bristles. The magnetic sweeper is utilized in places where there is lots of metal fragments like on shop floors for example. Sweepers have widths as much as 60 inches and this surface area makes clean up fast and simple.
Material spreaders are other accessories used on forklifts. These spreaders are helpful for various applications such as spreading fertilizers, insecticides, seeds, ice melt, rock salt and pellets.
Another optional lifting accessory are work platforms. These could be used by many different businesses day by day. Platforms may vary in size from 36" x 36" to up to 60" x 60". A few units may be accessible and are capable of folding up and storing into a smaller place. Work platforms are designed to raise workers up to an overhead location with the use of the forklift. Larger platform models have additional space for personnel in order to bring tools and other necessary things meant for the task. Often work platforms are constructed of poly material or steel.
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