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trainer
Indiana, United States
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jon_b
Cheshire, United Kingdom
Jungheinrich have an excellent range of 24 volt and 48 volt three wheeler counterbalances. All are AC powered and are built in Germany to the highest engineering standards at very reasonable prices. Check out ttp://[url/email removed]-us.com
Kiwi
North island, New Zealand
I agree the Junghienrich units are very comfotable for the operator,but in my experience they seem to have a habit of blowing controll cards quite regularly with not a lot of hours on the clock-expecially if the unit is travelling out-side frequently or being used in a freezer enviroment.Making for a very costly ownership + downtime.Maby these German units are better suited to the perfect working conditions found in Germany.
will_d
Ontario, Canada
I agree, there is a different standard for forklift operators in europe. Over there the back end of the forklift better look the same as the operators car, all the bumping and scrapping are considered accidents, until we get that quality of operator I guess we need tough lift trucks instead of nice driving ergonomically enhanced equipment.
trainer
Indiana, United States
Europe is much different! I agree with Will_d
Kiwi
North island, New Zealand
I dont know about Tusk,but Komatsu gear always seems to be very lightweight and cheap,we on the other hand had experience with Linde's and they proved to very expensive when it came to maintenence time,even when they sold the units as having the lowest total cost of ownership.We have been running Crown SC4040's for the last 3 years and they have proved to be the most solid and reliable and also the cheapest to maintain in a cold storage hard inviroment.
JML2005
Virginia, United States
Interesting, as the controller is in a fully sealed aluminum box, so freezer should not be an issue. It has even a Goretex membrane to let sweatwater from going in and out of a freezer devapurate from the controller box. We have 8 units in an soft ice production plant and they run just fine.
Kiwi
North island, New Zealand
That is the same yarn there sales team gave us,but they didnt stand up to the inviroment.If you decided to use that brand of equipment I would reccomend a fully maintained lease option so you dont get stung for the price of parts because they are very expensive to fix.
John_Lambert
Victoria, Australia
Trust all of you using three wheel forklifts appreciate the inherent increase in risk compared to four wheel units. With three wheel units the safety triangle cannot be improved with systems like the Toyota stability systemBetter to strive and experience all life’s colours from pain to ecstasy than to exist in a grey life
jon_b
Cheshire, United Kingdom
Regarding Kiwi's point -
John_Lambert
Victoria, Australia
One of the big problems with forklift safety is that we have an inherently unstable heavy lift device with nothing like the safety factors required for cranes and lifting slings et cetera - in fact if a forklift were designed to just comply with the international standards it would have virtually no safety factor at all with the load at full height or when travelling empty. We then compound the issue by wanting to maximise storage within a given building area by demanding the narrowist possible aisle widths and maximum racking height. This is regardless of the fact that to operate in those narrow aisles we have to compromise safety further by for example requiring three wheel machines. and we also compromise safety once we take racking height above around 4.5 - 5.0 metres when we are using counterbalance or reach trucks.Better to strive and experience all life’s colours from pain to ecstasy than to exist in a grey life
johnr_j
Georgia, United States
The Tusk truck is nothing more than an excact replacement for the Kalmar AC brand name (Kalmar would no longer allow Komatsu to use their name). The Tusk is built by Komatsu in Covington, GA a the same facility that built the Kalmar AC. The Tusk & Komatsu lift truck marketing arms have web sites and you down load spec sheets etc on both products & compare.
Chrissa
Australia
For more information on the "Tusk" brand, here's a Forkliftaction.com News story:
trainer
Indiana, United States
Tusk is the new incarnation of Kalmar
scissorshand
Selangor, Malaysia
Not sure abt the rest, we had a client whose such a demanding jackass so much so wanted to cancel our E15C BR 322 Series 3 wheeler. So he had the local Junghienrich came, sent the demo, 1.5 ton, 3 stg with ISS and the truck keeps on hitting the pallet on the selective racks. On the Linde, it was a breeze so much so the client decided to renew our contract at a higher price for 3 more years.
hanck_c
Capital Federal, Argentina
If you are looking for a 100% AC truck up to 2 tons, Clark´s new TMX series is a must see. Tusk, I understand, gegin at 2 tons and go up from there.
justinm
New York, United States
if u can get a hold of an older (2-3 years old) linde e16-02 thats the model u want its all dc but very reliable
John_Lambert
Victoria, Australia
A note of caution.Better to strive and experience all life’s colours from pain to ecstasy than to exist in a grey life
gary_d
scotland, United Kingdom
stills r50 and now rx50 no contest
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