New Sidetracker muilti-directional reach truck has been manufactured for aluminium curtain wall supplier Colorminium.
The truck successfully handles five different types of load including:
✔ Six metre long stillages
✔ Steel box pallets
✔ Timber pallets
✔ Steel waste bins
✔ A’ frame glass carriers
The Sidetracker SB Series machine was specified to perform all these material handling tasks, following a site analysis of the operation and the challenges involved. Special external forklift dimensions were needed to allow the truck to fit through a doorway of 2550 x 1680mm whilst carrying a steel bin.
Powered extending forks provide the safe handling needed to lift the glass carriers along their length of 2100mm, whilst also keeping fork length to a minimum.
Power fork spread allows the spread of the forks to be automatically varied to allow the safe handling of pallets, box pallets and stillages of various dimensions, which need to be lifted to a height of six metres.
The truck also has to load and unload delivery vehicles.
In essence the Sidetracker at this site performs the tasks of several forklift trucks since it is the only one there and has to cope with all the materials handling requirements on site, in a compact and busy building.