Forklift Goes Places Others Won't

Forklift Goes Places Others Won't MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Forklifts 20-3-9 "We wanted something that would get us into places we couldn't go with a conventional forklift," says Bob Lamb about the narrow, articulated forklift he built out of an old pickup. The Greenfield, Ill., farmer cut the pickup's axles down to 40-in. so width of the forklift, from tire to tire, is a couple inches less than the 4-ft. pallets Lamb carries on the forks. He used hydraulic motors to drive the front and rear axles. The forklift articulates on a center king pin and is steered with 2 1/2 by 16-in. hydraulic cylinders mounted on each side. Lamb mounted a mast and forks off an old 2,000-lb. forklift on the front of the machine. "We built it 15 years ago for about $4,000 and use it every day to move pallets and other things," Lamb says. "Thanks to articulation and its 4-ft. wheelbase, it'll get into tighter corners and narrower alleys than any forklift I've ever seen." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob Lamb, 516 South Main, Greenfield, Ill. 62044 (ph 217 368-2131).

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