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More in store with customised 4-way truck
25 January 2013
Kingsbury Builders Merchants' location in London's Kentish Town is convenient for local customers, but the cost of land posed a potentially expensive problem for the company's plan to expand its range of timber. By repl

Kingsbury Builders Merchants'
location in London's Kentish
Town is convenient for local
customers, but the cost of land posed
a potentially expensive problem for
the company's plan to expand its
range of timber. By replacing a
counterbalance truck with a
Combilift 4-way forklift, Kingsbury
has been able to increase the amount
of product stored by 60%.
The limited manoeuvrability of Kingsbury's counterbalance truck left no space to install racking for timber packs which come in lengths to 6m.
Suresh Patel, sales manager, says: "By fitting a thinner two-stage mast to the 3t LPG powered model, Combilift engineers were able to shorten the platform to enable the truck to work in the available space with just inches to spare. Adding extra ballast to the chassis ensures that stability is not compromised even when 2.5t packs are lifted to the top racks of 5.5m." Deliveries can now be carried on the truck's platform and manoeuvred sideways into the yard, boosting health and safety procedures.
The limited manoeuvrability of Kingsbury's counterbalance truck left no space to install racking for timber packs which come in lengths to 6m.
Suresh Patel, sales manager, says: "By fitting a thinner two-stage mast to the 3t LPG powered model, Combilift engineers were able to shorten the platform to enable the truck to work in the available space with just inches to spare. Adding extra ballast to the chassis ensures that stability is not compromised even when 2.5t packs are lifted to the top racks of 5.5m." Deliveries can now be carried on the truck's platform and manoeuvred sideways into the yard, boosting health and safety procedures.
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