Drum Clamp - Forklifts are designed to deal with moving, lifting and storing pallets. For facilities that deal with items in drums, you should make use of an attachment so as to lift, store and move them. There are various drum forklift accessories that you could acquire for all your drum storing and moving requirements. These attachments are specifically used in order to deal with drum containers - hence there is no chance of damage to the product or drum container when they are stored, moved or lifted.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner is obtainable in three and four tine models. They are operational for the unloading and loading of drums off vehicles, drum stands and racks. This accessory is fully mechanical, hence enabling the operator to be able to operate all from the comfort of the lift truck seat. Able to move steel, large and extra large plastic drums, its capacity is 210 liters. This accessory is designed for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab could be mounted to the forks, with a designed purpose of handling steel drums which have rolling hoops. Though the original purpose for the design was to deal with steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab can help accommodate plastic drums as well. Drum capacity maximum is 210 liters for steel drums with rolling hoops and 220 liters for plastic drums.
The Rotator
The drum rotator is one more lift truck accessory which mounts onto the blades themselves. Their objective is to lift the drum and turn it upside down. The drum is clasped into the drum rotator using a clamp which fits around the center of the drum. The rotation is executed by either a continuous loop chain or a crank handle. The crank handle is for operations which occur beneath shoulder level. For operations that must happen over shoulder level, the continual circle chain will be utilized.
Drum tines are simple fork mounted accessory that can be used for unstacking or stacking 210-liter steel drums. Stacking involves nothing fancy, merely simple horizontal placement of the drums. The carriage-mounted accessories lessen the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs come in both semi-automatic and automatic versions that can be used in the open topped and tight head steel drum styles. The drum tongs can also be connected several various ways to the forklift. One method is to connect them under a fork-mounted hook. One more way is to connect them to a fork-mounted jib or a carriage mounted jib. Either the semi automatic and the automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no requirement for the individual operating it to ever leave the seat of the lift truck.
Rim Grip Handler
Whenever drums require storage with inadequate spacing obtainable, the Rim Grip Drum Handler is the best option in drum forklift attachments. This particular attachment would work for either the two hundred ten liter drums in addition to one hundred twenty liter drums. The Rim Grip Handler operates by utilizing metal jaws in order to hold the edge of the drum. It picks the drum up and sets it down without requiring any room between all of the drums. The typical model used in the trade is a zinc-plated handler, though, this accessory is obtainable in stainless steel for the food and drink industry.
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