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?