Drum Clamp - Forklifts are utilized to handle moving, lifting and storing pallets. For facilities that deal with items in drums, you should use an attachment in order to lift, store and move them. There are several drum forklift accessories which you can acquire for all of your drum moving, lifting and storing needs. These attachments are specially designed to be able to deal with drum containers - thus there is no chance of damage to the item or drum container whenever they are moved, lifted or stored.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner could be utilized to load and unload drums off of vehicles, racks, and drum stands. These are existing in three and four tine models. This attachment is fully mechanical, therefore allowing 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 intended for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab is fork designed and mounted with the sole objective of handling steel drums that have rolling hoops. Although the reason for the design was to handle steel drums with rolling hoops, the drum grab could accommodate the transporting of extra large and large plastic drums. 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 that mounts onto the blades themselves. Their objective is to pick up the drum and turn it upside down. The drum is clasped into the drum rotator utilizing a clamp which fits around the middle of the drum. The rotation is executed by either a continuous loop chain or a crank handle. The crank handle is intended for operations that occur below shoulder level. For operations which should take place above shoulder level, the continual loop chain will be utilized.
The drum tines are carriage mounted or simple fork attachments. They are meant for unstacking and stacking 210-liter metal drums. Stacking requires nothing intricate, merely simple horizontal positioning of the drums. The carriage-mounted accessories decrease the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs are obtainable both automatic and semi-automatic models that could be utilized in the tight head and open topped metal drum kinds. The drum tongs can likewise be attached in many various ways to the forklift. One way is to connect them under a fork-mounted hook. Another way is to connect 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 requirement for the person operating it to ever leave the seat of the forklift.
Rim Grip Handler
Whenever drums need storage with inadequate area obtainable, the Rim Grip Drum Handler is the best alternative in drum forklift accessories. This accessory would work for either the 210 L drums as well as 120 L drums. The Rim Grip Handler operates by using steel jaws to be able to grab the rim of the drum. It lifts the drum and sets it down without needing any room between all of the drums. The average model used in the trade is a zinc-plated handler, even if, this attachment is obtainable in stainless steel for the food and drink industry.
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