FORK LIFT ATTACHMENTS
When is a forklift more than a forklift? When it has attachments. Attachments allow your forklift to become more efficient and versatile with handling unique material handling products. An attachment can enable a lift truck to push, pull, clamp, lift, side shift and rotate any load imaginable. Let’s take a closer look at selecting a forklift attachment and what kind of options are out there.
Factors to Consider When Choosing a Forklift Attachment
With the many types of forklift attachments, it can be challenging to choose the right one. While you may have narrowed your search to one attachment type, there are still more considerations. When selecting a forklift attachment, you’ll need to keep a few things in mind:
Stability: An attachment can significantly change the stability of a forklift. It will change the weight and center of gravity — so keep these factors in mind, especially if you’re working with heavy loads.
Capacity: A forklift with an attachment must always be considered partially loaded. The weight of the attachments comes off of the forklift’s capacity, so keep this in mind when deciding if your loads are appropriately sized.
Load type: Remember that certain attachments are only designed for specific types of loads, such as pallets, bales or containers.
Forklift attachments are typically designed to work with all makes and models. For instance, if you want a clamp forklift attachment for your Hyster, there’s no need to find an attachment designed specifically for the brand. Still, it’s best to confirm an attachment is well-suited to your forklift based on capacity and load requirements. You can read your operator manual to find this information.
Find Your Ideal Forklift Attachment at GENEX
It’s clear that forklift attachments have a place in many applications and industries. If you rely on a forklift in your operations, you can get even more from it with the right attachments. Here at GENEX, we offer a wide selection of attachments available for rental or for purchase.
If you still need help finding the best attachment for your applications, the GENEX team is happy to help. Contact us today
TYPES OF Attachments
Bale Clamp
Bale Clamps are mainly used for in-plant, non-palletised transportation of bales of paper, waste paper, tobacco and textiles or also boxes and containers.
Carton Clamp
Carton Clamps are used worldwide to transport white product (fridges, washing machines etc.) and brown product (consumer electronics).
Push-Pull Clamp
The push-pull is a forklift attachment designed to move goods that aren't placed on pallets. Replacing the pallet with sheets reduces cost of the packaging and allows for an increase in the volume of the goods movable in trucks and containers.
Block Clamp
Block Clamp is used for handling of all kinds of blocks and stacks of bricks without pallet. They grip packets of blocks and bricks from the side and are suitable for moving packets upright format blocks with plane surfaces such hollow, lime sand and concrete blocks.
Paper Roll Clamp
Paper roll clamps allow you to handle paper rolls regardless of diameter, weight or type of paper. The paper roll clamp attachment is commonly used in the paper handling industry.
Fork Positioner
With a fork positioner, you can adjust the distance between two forks, making it easy to work with various pallet sizes. This attachment is common in distribution, warehousing and food manufacturing industries.
Fork Rotator
Fork rotators allow the forks to be turned so loads can be dumped into other containers. This kind of application is common in industries like waste and recycling, food beverage processing and agriculture.
Multiple pallet handler
As the name suggests, this attachment allows forklifts to handle multiple pallets. The forks separate hydraulically, so operators can handle single pallets as needed and separate the forks to move multiple pallets from side to side. This ability can be a significant time saver in warehouse environments.
Fork extension
This forklift attachment allows your truck to carry a larger load than it could with its standard forks. These extenders enable an operator to carry more than one pallet and add an extra layer of efficiency to factories, warehouses and shipping operations.
Pallet Inverter
A pallet inverter is used in almost all industries such as F&B and pharmacy logistics and warehousing. It is an attachment that is used to rotate the pallets whilst still loaded with products. It also switches pallets placed in upper and lower side, when taking out luggage, it can gather its pallet by rotation.
Double Deep Reach Forks
Hydraulic Telescopic forks can be used for double-deep rack system, for dual pallet load transport and as extensions for the handling of pallets when a variety of different pallet sizes are used. All models are standard with two cylinders in each fork. Those hydraulic extendable forks can be extended and retracted as fast as pantographs systems.
Vertical Block Grabber
These block grabs are designed to lift a number of materials such as bricks, blocks, kerb stones and paving blocks. Whatever you're lifting, there are rubber jaws on the block grabs to prevent any damage to the load that is being lifted.
Man Cage
Forklift safety cages are platforms used to lift a warehouse employee or employees to high-access areas to perform an occasional or short-duration task. They can also be referred to as a 'man cage', a 'man basket' or a 'forklift working platform'.
