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We’ve all been to places where we’ve had to offload/load one side then turn around to do the other so why are these unknown or very rare here?
Yes, I have seen many of that design when I lived in the UK and that was over many years.
Ford at Bridgend and Halewood were operating these years ago.
Just extra long forks, nothing original or unusual there …
Takes up quite a lot of space as well. Usually when you have to do one side then turn round for the other the a place is tight on space.
They were used by Whitbread at Magor brewery in the 90’s used them for loading kegs.
raymundo:
Just extra long forks, nothing original or unusual there …
No, look again. The video isn’t actually that good at showing that forklift’s real party trick There are four blades. The driver has a control that can spread the blades so they can carry two pallets side by side, in this case it can carry four pallets at once.
There’s a warehousing place on Normanton Industrial Estate that uses them and has done for well over a decade.
Yes Quinn Glass (or whatever they’re called now) use similar. Very nifty machines
Chep used them in the pallet yards back in the 80s .
Teletruk is the best solution for one side load/unloading unless it’s a factory churning out identical loads.
Conor:
raymundo:
Just extra long forks, nothing original or unusual there …No, look again. The video isn’t actually that good at showing that forklift’s real party trick There are four blades. The driver has a control that can spread the blades so they can carry two pallets side by side, in this case it can carry four pallets at once.
There’s a warehousing place on Normanton Industrial Estate that uses them and has done for well over a decade.
There are the hydraulic carriage designs you describe but the forks in the OP’s video are fixed they’re just doubled to cope with the extra weight of a pair of pallets.
Own Account Driver:
Conor:
raymundo:
Just extra long forks, nothing original or unusual there …No, look again. The video isn’t actually that good at showing that forklift’s real party trick There are four blades. The driver has a control that can spread the blades so they can carry two pallets side by side, in this case it can carry four pallets at once.
There’s a warehousing place on Normanton Industrial Estate that uses them and has done for well over a decade.
There are the hydraulic carriage designs you describe but the forks in the OP’s video are fixed they’re just doubled to cope with the extra weight of a pair of pallets.
Don’t think they are fixed - if you pause the video right at the end you can clearly see the hydraulic ram used to spread the forks sideways.
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mike68:
They were used by Whitbread at Magor brewery in the 90’s used them for loading kegs.
Interbrew that became InBev that became ABInBev always have and still do use the side by side (four tines) trucks and not just for kegs but for bottles and cans too.
rigsby:
Chep used them in the pallet yards back in the 80s .
Still do.
Roymondo:
Own Account Driver:
Conor:
raymundo:
Just extra long forks, nothing original or unusual there …No, look again. The video isn’t actually that good at showing that forklift’s real party trick There are four blades. The driver has a control that can spread the blades so they can carry two pallets side by side, in this case it can carry four pallets at once.
There’s a warehousing place on Normanton Industrial Estate that uses them and has done for well over a decade.
There are the hydraulic carriage designs you describe but the forks in the OP’s video are fixed they’re just doubled to cope with the extra weight of a pair of pallets.
Don’t think they are fixed - if you pause the video right at the end you can clearly see the hydraulic ram used to spread the forks sideways.
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That’s the sideshift and moves the whole carriage
Seen those fork lifts with 4 moveable tines in several places in the 80s.Most unusual arrangement I can recall seeing was in Germany.The fork lift arrived at the back doors of the trailer with the pallet of goods.The forks then detached and the pallet was run up to the front of the trailer controlled by an umbilical.Never seen one before or since.
4 tine forklifts are common in RDc’s such as morrisons
Loading with long forks is common in tight yards, Gestamp Tellent in Newton Aycliffe who make the suspension arms for Volvo and jaguar cars also use extra long forks to load stillages thru the left side
Its a double handler system with longer forks.If its a full 52 pallet load they will load 8 pallets at a time .Happy days for a quick load or tip.
All our yard forklifts have 4 tines to load 2 pallets side by side. Some of the brickworks we load out of can load 4 packs side by side.
Used 'em years ago at Trade Team’s Hilton depot, the old Army storage place, where all the cans were despatched; it’s now in Burton itself somewhere.
They’re good kit, but the ones we had didn’t have a lot of tilt, and you had to be very careful not to hit the door runners on your way out of the shed.
When we had the old Brewliner 20 pallet trailers, you and a mate could easily tip and re-load the shunter (20 pallets off, 20 on) inside eight minutes.