Wobblin-Goblin
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For years, we've been using a home made hook that slid over a set of forks to load and unload cages of panels for doing concrete foundations. The heaviest cages weigh one ton. It worked well enough, but it was heavy, the hook was low, forcing us to raise the loader as high as possible to carry and load the 9ft high cages onto and off of trailers. Of course, the higher the loader is, the less stable it is, especially with weight up that high. Also, with the loader all the way up, that meant the protective back of the pallet forks was reaaaally way up there and was a danger to hitting the roof eaves of the storage building. Finally, sight lines were "busy" using the pallet forks in this manner.
So, we designed a new boom that would do the same job, but better. It weighs half of what it replaces, the boom is higher on the loader (allowing us to keep the loader lower), there is less stuff in the way of sight lines, and we made it to accept different length booms, depending on which machine is loading or unloading. All in all, it's a big step up for us.
So, we designed a new boom that would do the same job, but better. It weighs half of what it replaces, the boom is higher on the loader (allowing us to keep the loader lower), there is less stuff in the way of sight lines, and we made it to accept different length booms, depending on which machine is loading or unloading. All in all, it's a big step up for us.
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