securing forklifts to a deck

block and nail the tires in place, then lag bolt a 3x4 across the forks? never had the notion to secure a fork lift inside a can truck.

 

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You'd probably need some d rings in the floor and some load bars to keep them apart.

 

use blocking, but the place you load will probably secure them in for you a van. or else they will have all the blocking. i would assume theyre not big lifts

 

Hmmm.... Newb dry van here. One of my recent loads was some Sprinter vans, They just drove them in. 10 minutes later they banged the side of the cab telling me to go.

 

I have hauled forklifts back when I used to haull LTL, we use to take the forks off and set them in the nose sideways, (with the side of the forklift completely against the nose), then we nailed wedge blocks under the wheels and pulled the forks up against the nose as well. Then we would start packing freight all around them and fill out the trailer. The average forkilift with solid tires weigh usually right at 10,000 lbs, it is usually stamped on the ID tag of the forklift. So the question is, with two, would you be able to axle it with two loaded like this? If I were going to haul them I would MAKE SURE that they will not move if someone pulls out in front of you and you have to hit the binders. This WILL include nailing wedges under each wheel plus the earlier mentioned plank across the forks with lag screws, and then strapping or chains. One thing to always remember hauling ANYTHING that is on wheels, that freight is impossible to keep from moving without a lot of thought. The logistics posts and strapping are not enough to hold a forklift or anything that heavy, I know exactly how you feel about punching holes in the floor, but all it takes is one stab on the brake pedal to kill or injure you or someone else. I usually nail blocking to the floor, and then use (depending on the weight), one to three straps, with each strap hooking to the next post back, so if you have three straps, you are using three different logistic posts on each side of the trailer, to spread the load out. Even this failed me though when an elderly man pulled on to the freeway in front of me in a construction zone, I wasn't going very fast, thankfully, but I had to stomp on the brakes to keep from hitting him, and all I could hear were steel strapping breaking and iron castings tumbling around in the trailer. It took me a couple of hours restacking two hundred pound castings, and resecuring the strapping. Meanwhile the elderly man just drove away in front of me, not having a clue how close he came to disaster. You don't have the options inside of a van that you do with a flat, so you must be creative. As for the logistic strips on the wall, they are usually secured to the wall posts with pop style rivets, and as such, they are only good for securing very light freight. Sorry to give you the bad news, because like you, I believe that nailing and screwing into the wood floor just takes the life out of the floor.

 

That's what worried me, I wasn't aloud out of the truck.