Specialist forklift manufacturer
Sichelschmidt has supplied a wide
gauge pallet truck fitted
with a crane jib to a
leading manufacturer of
measuring and testing
equipment for the
automotive, aviation
and electrical engineering sectors. The
niche product was developed in
response to the customer’s
requirements for substantial reach
capacity and utmost stability when
feeding extremely large components
to the testing plant.
Sichelschmidt’s designers to ok a
wide gauge model from the d 500
series – the d 516 with a nominal
capacity of 1600kg – as a basis for the
truck before adapting it for the
application in question. A shorter
mast to enable lift heights of 1900mm
was fitted to the base unit, and a
considerably longer than
standard crane jib –
3230mm rather than
1200mm – was mounted
on to the fork carriage
to achieve a load
centre of 3000mm
with a 1000kg
capacity.