Now here's an interesting thing that Biglorryblog has not come across before.... How do you use a lorry-mounted crane to unload pallet load of plaster board? Well you could of course 'sling' it off (and by that I don't mean throw it off the truck in a hale and hearty fashion) but with a rope sling to lower it to the ground. Or you could use this clever bit of kit that attaches a set of forks (or are they tines?) to the crane--and Robert's the brother of your Dad! Anyone seen this before...? If so tell me all about it. And here's a close up.
As far as I can see the L-shaped fork frame attaches to the crane hook point and swivels free. Is that how it work? Either way it looks pretty neat.
Now click through here for a picture of the truck and who's just bought it.
Bagley Plastering's latest 6x4 Axor 2633 is fitted with a hefty Palfinger 15500 crane which is capable of lifting 6.2 tonnes and boasts a maximum reach of 18.7 metres. This means that instead of having to carry unwieldy plasterboard sheets up flights of stairs, Bagley's operatives can now employ the crane to lift them up to the first and second floors of the buildings in which they are working. Ashford-based Bagley Plastering bought its Axor from local dealer Sparshatts of Kent. The 26-tonner also has a dropside body by C&D Fabrications, of Faversham.
You want to get out more - this is old hat. I don't get out much and the first time I saw it must have been a couple of years back. Sorry.
All the brick trucks here have got the same thing
Brian,
Not seen one before? Surely not! I remember using one in the late 1970s to lift pallets of cement and blocks of bricks off on building sites. Even with cranes and things it was still mighty grimey work and either covered you with dust or mud with nothing in between so I soon gave that up.
Best wishes,
Roy
I used one of them once and the problem with them is, without remote control of the crane how do you guide the forks into the pallet as the thing swings freely on the hook, although in the one pictured the hook has a rotatation facility, so if the forks were attached directly to it it would be better than being slung from the hook. Also there are two lifting positions on the fork attachment, one to enable you to put it under the pallet as pictured and then to enable you to lift the load, the lifting eye slides up the arm to the top or when you lift the load it will slide off the forks. I found it was faster to use scaffold poles and strops to lift off the pallets, until I got a crane truck with a grab that is.
just as an addendum to my previous mutterings, when you are not using the fork attachment what do you do with the damn thing coz it takes up a lot of space and they are heavy so you have to strap it down everytime.
what ever makes you think i dont like them!
Had one of my first truck.. A D700 Ford a HIAB rear mount hyd crane pretty trendie for 1974!! it came to me from a brick works thus had the pellet handeling forks with ..No pie today!