Drum Clamp - Forklifts are meant to handle moving, lifting and storing pallets. For facilities which deal with items inside drums, you must make use of an attachment to be able to move, lift and store them. There are various drum forklift attachments which you can obtain for all your drum storing and moving needs. These attachments are particularly designed 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 in order to load and unload drums off of racks, drum stands and vehicles. These are accessible in three and four tine models. This attachment is completely automatic, thus enabling the operator to operate all from the comfort of the forklift seat. Able to move steel, large and extra large plastic drums, its capacity is 210 liters. This particular attachment is intended for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab could be mounted to the forks, with a designed objective of handling steel drums which have rolling hoops. Although the original reason for the design was to deal with steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab can help accommodate plastic drums too. Drum capacity maximum is 210 liters for steel drums with rolling hoops and 220 liters for plastic drums.
The Rotator
The drum rotator is another forklift accessory which mounts onto the blades themselves. Their objective is to be able to pick up the drum and rotate it upside down. The drum is clamped into the drum rotator using a clamp that fits around the middle of the drum. The rotation is performed by either a crank handle or a continuous loop chain. The crank handle is for operations which happen below shoulder level. For operations that should occur higher than shoulder level, the continuous circle chain will be utilized.
Drum tines are simple fork mounted attachment that could be intended for unstacking or stacking 210-liter metal drums. Stacking involves nothing elaborate, merely simple horizontal positioning of the drums. The carriage-mounted accessories decrease the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs come in both semi-automatic and automatic units that can be used in the tight head and open topped steel drum kinds. The drum tongs could also be attached in many various ways to the forklift. One way is to connect them under a fork-mounted hook. One more way is to attach them to a carriage mounted jib or a fork-mounted jib. Either the semi automatic and the automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no need for the person operating it to ever leave the seat of the forklift.
Rim Grip Handler
The Rip Grip Drum Handler is the best alternative for lift truck attachments, when there is a necessity to store drums with limited space available. This accessory can be used on either 120L and 210L drums. The Rim Grip Handler functions by utilizing steel jaws to be able to grab the edge of the drum. It picks the drum up and sets it down without requiring any room between all of the drums. The average unit used in the industry is a zinc-plated handler, even if, this particular accessory is accessible in stainless steel for the food and drink market.
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