For most daily warehouse operations, conventional counterbalance forklifts can meet the demand for handling common palletized goods, but they often face prominent limitations when dealing with long-sized goods such as metal profiles, wooden boards, tubing and rolled long materials. These long materials will extend far beyond the load backrest of conventional forklifts, requiring extra wide driving channels to complete steering and access operations, which is easy to cause accidental collisions with surrounding shelves, passing staff or stacked goods, and virtually increases the hidden danger of operation and extra operation cost.
The sideloader forklift, also called side loading forklift, is designed to solve this kind of special handling demand. Different from the structure of conventional forklifts with forks arranged at the front end of the vehicle, its forks and lifting gantry are installed on the side of the vehicle body, which can directly pick up long goods placed on the side of the passage, and make the long goods placed parallel to the direction of the vehicle body during driving. This structural feature greatly reduces the minimum width requirement of the working passage. For warehouses that need to store a large number of long-sized materials, using a matching sideloader forklift can reduce the reserved passage width by 25% to 35% compared with using conventional counterbalance forklifts, so as to arrange more storage racks in the limited warehouse space and improve the overall space utilization rate.
At present, the electric-powered sideloader forklift is more and more popular among warehouse operators. It has no exhaust emission during operation, low operating noise, and stable power output, which is very suitable for closed indoor warehouse environments. As Jianshu New Energy, we specialize in BYD electric forklifts, and the electric sideloader forklift series we provide can well adapt to the operation needs of different types of warehouses, with stable performance and controllable later operation and maintenance cost.
In actual warehouse deployment, the warehouse management side can set up a special driving area for sideloader forklifts according to the characteristics of incoming and outgoing long-sized materials, arrange special operators to receive professional operation training, and check the flexibility of the side gantry and the wear of the forks before each operation, so as to give full play to the maximum use value of the sideloader forklift, reduce the loss of goods caused by improper operation, and further improve the overall turnover efficiency of the warehouse.
