Thrashsmith
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Hi all, I'm new to driving/owning a forklift so don't know all the tricks yet.
My workshop is by a lane & has sliding doors around 4m wide.
There's a patch of concrete outside my workshop that's around 3-4m wide, then it's the road. So if I have some 6m long bars, perpendicular to the forks, they stick out onto the lane a bit. My workshop doors are parallel with the road.
Is angleing the steel on the forks to a 45 degree angle the best way to be able to turn into the workshop? Or are there any common fork extensions/balancing beams/chain setups etc that I can copy to help make manouvering easier? What's the best way to secure bars to the forks so they don't spin around into another angle whilst going across the bumpy concrete outside my workshop?
I've marked on a satellite image roughly where my doors are in blue, and roughly where my steel rack & saw is.
Thanks for any pointers.
My workshop is by a lane & has sliding doors around 4m wide.
There's a patch of concrete outside my workshop that's around 3-4m wide, then it's the road. So if I have some 6m long bars, perpendicular to the forks, they stick out onto the lane a bit. My workshop doors are parallel with the road.
Is angleing the steel on the forks to a 45 degree angle the best way to be able to turn into the workshop? Or are there any common fork extensions/balancing beams/chain setups etc that I can copy to help make manouvering easier? What's the best way to secure bars to the forks so they don't spin around into another angle whilst going across the bumpy concrete outside my workshop?
I've marked on a satellite image roughly where my doors are in blue, and roughly where my steel rack & saw is.
Thanks for any pointers.