Forklift Products

Shrinking space at lumberyards and on jobsites, compounded by the need to stock more SKUs and the increased use of long engineered lumber products and building components, has made moving materials from point A to points B and C more complicated than ever.

Forklift Products
By Shawn Conrad
Versatility Rules
The right equipment can increase your materials handling efficiency and productivity.
Shrinking space at lumberyards and on jobsites, compounded by the need to stock more SKUs and the increased use of long engineered lumber products and building components, has made moving materials from point A to points B and C more complicated than ever.
Materials handling equipment with versatile performance features, such as multi-directional driving, interchangeable attachments, and forks that adjust themselves to the load, offer lumberyards flexibility, the opportunity to simplify materials handling, and increased productivity.
"Everyone wants to be able to do more with less," says Doug Snorek, marketing manager for Mustang Mfg.. Thus, there's more demand for equipment that can multitask, such as telescopic handlers, multi-directional units, or forklifts with interchangeable attachments.
For example, forklifts with four-directional capabilities can handle long loads and are able to squeeze into narrow aisles, according to Jere French of TCM Lift Trucks. The forklifts' ability to switch between sideways and conventional travel also lets them handle heavy palletized loads without changing attachments, giving them a flexibility that appeals to many dealers, according to John Colburn, marketing director for The Raymond Corp.'s reach-fork product division.
Attachments do come in handy for accomplishing more with one machine. "A lot of LBM dealers are getting into wall panels, and they need something to deliver them," points out Patrick Keenan, product manager for Moffett. However, purchasing a machine designed only to handle wall panels is a large investment for just one application, he says. That's why the company developed a truck-mounted forklift with interchangeable forks–one set for wall panels and one for lumber.
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