Drum Clamp - Forklifts are utilized to handle lifting, storing and moving pallets. For facilities which handle items in drums, you will need to make use of an attachment in order to store, move and lift them. There are numerous drum forklift accessories that you could obtain for all of your drum storing, moving and lifting needs. These attachments are specially meant in order to handle drum containers - therefore there is no chance of damage to the product or drum container when they are moved, lifted or stored.
Drum Positioner And Grab
The drum positioner could be used to load and unload drums off of vehicles, racks, and drum stands. These are accessible in three or four tine models. This particular accessory is totally mechanical, hence enabling the operator 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 attachment is used for drum pyramid stacking.
The drum grab is fork designed and mounted with the sole purpose of handling steel drums which have rolling hoops. Even though the purpose for the design was to deal with 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 a lift truck attachment which mounts on to the forks themselves. The objective of the drum rotator is to be able to pick up the drum and rotate it upside down. The drum fits in to the rotator utilizing a steel clamp that fits over the center of the drum. The rotation is executed by either a crank handle or a continuous loop chain. The crank handle is for operations which take place below shoulder level. For operations which must occur above shoulder level, the continual circle chain will be used.
The drum tines are simple fork or carriage mounted accessories. They are used for unstacking and stacking 210-liter metal drums. Stacking involves nothing fancy, merely simple horizontal positioning of the drums. The carriage-mounted accessories decrease the load center of the drums.
Automatic Tongs
Drum tongs come in automatic and semi-automatic models. They are for use in the open topped or tight head steel drum kinds. The drum pincers could be connected in several ways to the forklift. One method is to attach them under a fork-mounted hook. Another way is to connect them to a carriage mounted jib or a fork-mounted jib. Both the semi automatic and the automatic have a drum capacity of 210 liters. With the automatic, there is no requirement for the operator to ever leave the seat of the lift truck.
Rim Grip Handler
The Rip Grip Drum Handler is the best choice for forklift attachments, whenever there is a necessity to store drums with limited area available. This attachment could be utilized on both 120L and 210L drums. The Rim Grip Handler operates by utilizing steel jaws to hold the rim of the drum. It picks the drum up and sets it down without needing any space between all of the drums. The standard unit utilized in the trade is a zinc-plated handler, even though, this accessory comes accessible in stainless steel for the food and drink industry.
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