Drum Clamp - Forklifts are used to handle storing, lifting and moving pallets. For facilities that deal with products in drums, you should use an attachment in order to store, move and lift them. There are several drum forklift attachments that you could obtain for all your drum moving, lifting and storing requirements. These attachments are specifically designed to deal with drum containers - thus there is no risk of damage to the item or drum container when they are stored, moved or lifted.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner can be utilized to load and unload drums off of vehicles, racks, and drum stands. These are offered in three and four tine models. This attachment is completely mechanical, thus allowing the person operating it 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 particular accessory is meant for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab is fork mounted and is designed 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 can accommodate the moving of large and extra 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 attachment that mounts onto the forks themselves. Their purpose is to lift the drum and rotate it upside down. The drum is clamped into the drum rotator utilizing 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 take place beneath shoulder level. For operations which must take place above shoulder level, the continuous circle chain will be utilized.
Drum tines are straightforward fork mounted attachment which could be used for stacking and unstacking 210-liter steel drums. Stacking involves nothing fancy, merely simple horizontal placement of the drums. The carriage-mounted enhancements lessen the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs are available both semi-automatic and automatic versions that could be used in the tight head and open topped steel drum kinds. The drum tongs can even be connected in many different ways to the lift truck. One method is to connect them underneath a fork-mounted hook. One more way is to connect them to a fork-mounted jib or a carriage mounted jib. Both the automatic and semi-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 lift truck.
Rim Grip Handler
The Rip Grip Drum Handler is the best alternative for lift truck accessories, whenever there is a necessity to stockpile drums with limited area accessible. This accessory can be utilized on either one hundred twenty liter and two hundred ten litter drums. The Rim Grip Handler operates by using metal jaws to hold the rim of the drum. It lifts the drum and puts it down without needing any space between the drums. The typical model used in the trade is a zinc-plated handler, although, this attachment is available in stainless steel for the food and drink market.
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