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Electric Counterbalance Forklift FAQs | Locators Ltd Forklift & Storage Systems

Check out our other useful guides and tips. We cover everything – from ensuring your forklift is in top working condition to keeping your warehouse productivity high. In this video, we answer a frequently asked question: How do you know how much you can and can’t lift? We explain parameters of what a counterbalance forklift truck can do. This video runs through everything from the importance of a load centre through to the fluctuations in capacity. For better clarification, we’ve transcribed the video below. Have any questions? Feel free to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you soon. Locators are the South of England’s leading supplier of materials handling equipment and storage systems. If you’d like a partner with the resources and capability to help your business grow then please get in touch. You can be assured of expert impartial advice and high-quality service. This video was filmed at our headquarters in Ferndown, Dorset. We have a huge range of forklifts and materials handling equipment – perfect for warehouses and businesses of any size. Contact us to find out more. Check out our website: https://www.locators.co.uk/ ** Subscribe to our channel and tap the bell for updates ** 00:00 - Introduction I thought we could talk a little bit today about how when you’re actually using the truck, knowing what you can and can’t lift and which trucks to use in different areas. 00:10 - What Does that Mean? This truck on my right’s an electric counterbalance truck. It’s just come back from a hire and you can see, it needs a bit of a respray before it goes out again. So counterbalance trucks up to three and a half tonnes are rated at a load centre of 500mm. Now, what does that mean? 00:27 - The Parameters of what the Truck Can Do When your fork truck specialist comes onto the site to specify something, they need to know exactly the weight and the size of the loads sticking up with the truck. This truck is a 1.8 tonne capacity three-wheel electric counterbalance truck, and this truck will pick up 1 tonnes up to a certain lift height. As long as the load is only one metre deep and one metre high, and that the load is spread evenly within that area. If you’ve got all the weight at the very end of the load – or at the very back of the load – that will change the parameters of what the truck is able to do. 00:59 - The Importance of Load Centres So – umm – load centres are really important on forklift trucks. If you suddenly change from picking up a one ton load – which is a metre deep – to a one ton load – two metres deep – it makes a massive difference, because a counterbalance truck has a weight on the back to stop the truck tipping forward. So the further you move the weight out, the more likely it is to tip forward, it’s as simple as that. We’ll move round and show you the capacity plate on the truck which is your best guide really to work out what you can and can’t lift with your forklift. 01:27 - The Specification Plate So all material handling equipment needs to have a specification plate attached to it. When your inspector comes around and does the annual inspection of your truck – or twice annual inspection of your truck depending on what it is – they will check that there is a specification plate on the truck, which tells you – err – what its capacity is and what its de-rated capacity is. If that isn’t on there then your truck will fail the thorough examination and they will require you to speak to your service provider and get a new plate fitted. 01:54 - Understanding the Fluctuations in Capacity This capacity plate on the counterbalance truck gives me three different capacities. So I’ve got 1.8 tonnes at full lift height, at 500m load centre, so that’s a one metre deep load. At full lift height, if I go to a 1.2 metre deep load – so if I’m handling a Euro pallet or a UK 1,200 deep – that capacity drops down to 1,610 kilos. So you lose almost 200 kilos. If you then go to picking up a two metre deep load – with a 1,000mm load centre – then your capacity drops right down to 1,140 kilos. So you can see it has a dramatic affect in what we call “de-rating” the truck. So you mustn’t assume that some things only weighs a ton it’s not just the actual weight of the load. You mustn’t assume that the truck will pick it up if the load is bigger than one metre deep. You need to consult this and if its outside of the parameters of what’s on the specification plate of the truck, then you need to contact your service provider or the company who supplied you the truck and check with them before you try lifting anything.