Moving the Machine That Moves Everything Else | High-Capacity Forklift Delivery So, how does one make a 100,000-pound forklift delivery? A forklift is normally the machine you call when something heavy needs to be moved. But what happens when the forklift itself weighs 100,000 pounds or
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Forklift remarketing services give banks, leasing companies, equipment finance firms, and asset managers a practical way to recover value from off-lease, repossessed, and surplus material handling equipment. However, successful remarketing involves much more than listing a used forklift for sale. The equipment must be identified, inspected,
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A coil handling lift truck should never be selected based on coil weight alone. A 30-ton coil does not automatically require a lift truck with a nominal 30-ton capacity. The coil’s dimensions, load center, required lift height, attachment configuration, facility layout, and production demands all affect
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When high-capacity material-handling equipment goes down, responsive and experienced forklift service can make all the difference. Forklift Exchange technician Jeremy recently completed an on-site radiator replacement for a Hoist FKS15 at Titan Steel, helping return the forklift to operation while minimizing disruption. Diagnosing a Cooling-System Problem
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The Everyday Industrial Machine That’s More Interesting Than It Looks Forklifts are everywhere. Warehouses. Factories. Steel mills. Lumber yards. Construction sites. Marinas. Ports. Distribution centers. Because they’re so common, most people don’t give them much thought. A forklift picks something up, moves it somewhere else, and
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When a Hoist F300 Forklift, a 30,000 lb truck starts leaking fluid, downtime gets expensive fast. That is why Hoist F300 forklift repair is a big part of what our field service team does every week. Last week, Forklift Exchange service technician Jeremy spent four days
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When 10,000 Pounds Isn’t Even Considered Heavy What are the biggest forklifts in the world and what do they lift? Most people hear the word forklift and picture the machine they see at a warehouse, lumber yard or home-improvement store. Maybe it lifts 5,000 pounds. Maybe
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Experience matters when the application is specialized — and few applications are more specialized than moving a 20-ton steel coil or a fragile roll of aluminum sheet through a working plant floor. A coil handling forklift isn’t a truck you back into a job and hope
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Forklift Exchange is heading to Omaha, Nebraska, for a live equipment demonstration featuring two powerful and versatile machines: the new Hoist FR 25/35 GEN II Extendable Counterweight Forklift and the JMG MC25S Electric Pick-and-Carry Crane. The demonstration will be hosted in partnership with our friends at
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