Posted by Harold Hubbard on June 24, 2011 at 13:47:07 from (205.209.16.24):
In Reply to: Clamp on fork lift tines. posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on June 24, 2011 at 08:52:22:
They are better than trying to handle stuff with the bucket only, or by main strength and ignorance. Others have mentioned the reduced lifting power and possibility fo bending the bucket, but I am surprised that no one has mentioned that YOU CAN'T SEE THE DARNED FORKS!!!! The bucket blocks your line of sight, and you wind up standing up and trying to look over it, or tilting it down until you can see the forks underneath it, but now they are angled so far from flat that they will never go under whatever you are trying to pick up. Handling logs and such you can just put the forks down and ram ahead until they catch, but pallets don't work so well that way. I always try to have somebody spot for me when handling pallets.
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