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Hi swoop223, I'm not sure about the US but in the UK carpet booms are quite common on reach trucks, I had a customer who used a number of 2000kg Linde reach trucks in a carpet warehouse and they had better residule capacity and a stronger mast with less flex than a counterbalance machine, though I have just taken in a Mitsi FB20KT with a 7m triple that was being used with a carpet boom!
  • Posted 10 Nov 2012 12:02
  • By forkinlift
  • joined 22 Jan'11 - 57 messages
  • Bucks, United Kingdom

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