Friday, January 19, 2007

Reach Truck

A narrow aisle (8'-10') truck designed specifically for racked pallet storage. It consists of outriggers in front and telescoping forks that use a 'hydraulic scissors' type of mechanism which allows you to pick up the load and retract it over the outriggers, reducing the overall truck and load length, thus allowing you to turn in a narrower aisle


Profound? In a nutshell, this equipment:


-Harness the full potential of warehouse operators.

-Moves, store and retrieve pallets as efficiently as possible.

-Optimize the productivity of operators with such equipment that puts them in full control of every load, everytime.


Yes, we are talking about the Reach Truck.



Some pictures are them appended below:























The reach truck is undisputedly one of the common types of material handling equipment that can be found in the warehouse. Basically, as given its name, it 'reaches' out to racks that can be up to 5 high in height. It saves tons load of energy having to transfer pallets up and down the racks and can be relatively easy to use as well.



























Driven around almost like a normal vehicle, operators can manoeuvre its way around the warehouse without much fuss, given its small machinery size. They come in many different kinds of model, some equipped with sophisicated technologies such as anti-brake system, power steering and all sorts. Most ones we typically see in warehouses are probably the ones that enable the operators to seat while doing their job. However, there are also reach trucks that allow the user to stand while operating the machine.




Here are some more pictures to provide a more definite illustration:



'Look at how well the dude fits into the truck, totally awesome!'



















Alright, just to wrap things up. All the above information can be easily found via the world wide web. Please feel free to visit the websites for more detailed information:



http://www.raymondhandling.com/liftrucks.html
http://accuracybook.com/glossary.htm#R
http://www.hubtex.de/english/products/fork-lift-reach-truck.html?PHPSESSID=0b7b333476c84ea4de291bcc4c5d

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, like the way you kept it short and sweet.. It was definitely informative..