We design capital equipment and would like the machine to be fork(lift) friendly. Being pretty green at it, I had some questions. Assuming that we have a rectangular profile, we have a base frame thats 76"x94" thats made from steel (A36). The whole machine upon completion weighs around 9000lbs, and the load is pretty much centered.
I would like to have two orthogonal sides where the forks would be coming in, and would like to have structural members, which are attached to the base frame (steel rectangular tubing of appropriate size) accepting them. Is this the best approach when it comes to handling such heavy equipment with forkfilts? Does anyone have any suggestion/s?
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In general, yes, that would help. I have several customers trying to balance, lift, hoist, etc. large generators and having fork pockets on some of these would be a blessing. Now the size of the fork pocket would have to be versatile enough to accomodate a few large sizes of forks. I would suggest Servco Mktg 1 (800) 756-6577 to see if they could help you on determining a size to accomodate the width and thickness of the forks.
Good luck!
What is "orthogonal"? Been to 3 county fairs and a goat roping contest and ain't read nothing like that before.
I would suggest you contact your local lift truck dealer. He will have a lot of other questions for you. Liek how high is this object, how high do you need to lift it, on what type of surfaces, etc. etc, If you have a drwaing or other details they would be helpful.
Too hard to provide a meaningful suggestion from your descripition.
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