Fork Truck & Forklift Bucket Attachment

What is a bucket attachment?
A bucket attachment is a device that fastens onto the front end of a skid steer or forklift, transforming it into a device for a specialized application. Depending on the brand and model of the fork truck or skid steer, and the intended use of the bucket, it will have either a quick tach attachment or a universal fit.

Why should we invest in skid steer and forklift buckets?
Because by attaching them too one or two forklifts or skid steers you can enable two or three pieces of heavy construction equipment to perform multiple specialized tasks rapidly, safely, and accurately.

Why would I want a bucket attachment for my forklift? Shouldn't I just buy a loader?
Not so fast. Some loaders cannot reach into smaller places, and they are extremely expensive.
Forklift bucket attachments offer a more cost effective and streamlined design allows them to access hard-to-reach places. Forklift buckets with quick tach attachments are great for loading sand and gravel, and when you are finished at the end of the day, you can use them for site cleanup. In extreme northern climates, they are routinely employed to move snow. Universal, “slip over the forks” buckets are frequently used to load and unload gravel from roof tops and to remove trash.

What forklift attachment works best for masonry and moving small quantities of dirt, sand, and gravel?
The self-dumping bucket is a favorite forklift attachment for landscape work, masonry, and for moving small quantities of dirt, sand, small rocks, mulch, fertilizer and top soil. It slips right over the forks of any modern fork truck in a matter of minutes, and it needs no hydraulics and or forklift modifications to get started.

How many different models of skid steer bucket attachments do you offer?
We have six in total, ranging from buckets used for hauling dirt and agricultural products to snow and light material. The newest model that has just emerged on the market is the ribbed-bottom or “skeleton” bucket attachment. It has become very popular, very quickly, in applications that require sifting smaller debris out of the way.

Are root grapplers only good for pulling up tree roots?
No. Root grapplers make it easy to move bulky, hard-to-handle materials safely and quickly. Any time there is a major hurricane, tropical storm, and tornado, they are usually the very first and best choice for demolition and cleanup of storm debris. Perhaps the greatest benefit they offer is their ability to sift out dirt when moving larger piles of trash and heavy dirt. Utility lines and cables remain safe because the tines of a root grapple bucket attachment curve upward and outward to prevent accidental snagging.

How effective is a concrete placement bucket attachment?
Quite often, it is more effective than much more complex and expensive equivalents. It has no moving parts and therefore has less to break. It is one of those classic cases of how something simple works better than something complicated.

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Skid Steer Buckets

Each of these skid steel bucket types can be customized. We can have heavy duty shanks welded to the cutting blade to increase pickup power. These teeth measure 2-1/4" across the point and weld straight onto the blade. In other applications that are extremely demanding, adding a punched blade with bolt-on-blade will increase the life of your skid steer bucket. Users consistently report an increase of up to 3 times the wear when they add this option.

Skid steer buckets can be used for a wide variety of tasks. Built for rugged applications and made to last, Easy Rack carries five basic standard models for a number of applications:

• Low profile duty skid steer buckets are used to haul dirt.
• Heavy duty buckets are made for utility work.
• Agricultural units for moving fertilizer.
• Special skid steer buckets are used by farmers to move seed.
• Snow buckets for plowing and light material moving are ideal for extreme temperatures in northern climates.

Key features make these heavy duty skid-steer fork lift attachments must-have purchase for your construction site. Buckets also feature dual safety stops to make them more controllable, and beveled hard carbon steel side blades that reinforce and protect the bucket sides. Skid steer buckets are strengthened even more by seams that are fully welded. The flat, square bottom of each bucket type allows you to back drag the unit over dirt to level it. Scuff bars reinforce this area to prevent excessive wear. A 3/8", plate steel universal quick tach allows skid-steer buckets to fit almost any loader brand.

Standard type steer buckets cannot be used for optimal results in some applications, however. Because they are solid, they scoop up everything. A new, ribbed-bottom design now makes it possible to actually scoop and sift for certain projects that require only larger materials to be moved. The ribbed-bottom skid steer bucket features an open ribbed bottom that sifts dirt and smaller materials to the ground without picking up and moving larger materials.

Ribbed bottom skid steer buckets are low cost specialty tools that are excellent for virtually any specialized application. Everyone from demolition teams, scrap handling workers, farmers, and construction crews are beginning to use them more and more. Ribbed-bottom skid steer buckets are also becoming a rapid favorite among landscaping crews because they are ideal for moving rocks. They are also being used increasingly to move certain masonry materials, and debris cleanup crews prefer ribbed-bottom buckets because they sift out the dirt and sand when cleaning hazardous debris from a site.

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Portable Concrete Bucket Mixers

Portable cement mixers transform skid-steers into mobile, ready mix units. Some are made with a rotating cylinder design, while others resemble scoop buckets that can then tilt upward to mix cement with raw materials and make concrete. The demand for portable cement drum mixers continues to rise as ready mix companies continue to raise their prices for concrete delivery concrete yardage costs (due to increases in fuel prices nationwide.) This wastes time and money any time crews have to wait for trucks to arrive, or purchase more concrete than they actually need.

Portable cement mixers eliminate unnecessary downtime, expenditure, and waste by allowing crews to mix cement and concrete on the spot whenever necessary. Both cement mixer drums and skid-steer bucket concrete mixers can be used by workers to mix only the cement and concrete they need for a particular task at hand. Both types of portable cement mixers give work crews onsite, ready-mix capability and do away with the hours of waiting many crews have to endure when third parties become involved in a project.

Easy Rack supplies construction companies with two types of portable cement mixers that attach to almost any skid-steer and make cement mixing portable, ergonomic, safe, and cost effective.

Concrete Mixer Drums are ideal for mixing both cement and concrete 6 cubic feet at a time.

• The rotating cylinder design makes this ideal for evenly mixing both cement and concrete.
• This mixer can handle 6 cubic feet-ideal of cement or concrete at a time.
• The mixer drum is powered by an independent hydraulic motor that mounts to the skid-steerʼs exterior.
• Universal quick-tach attachments allow portable cement mixers mount to almost any skid-steer units.
• This portable cement mixer drum is simple to use: just tilt it up to load it, transport it to the desired location, mix and tilt to pour.

If you have to make concrete on the spot with sand or gravel, skid-steer bucket concrete mixers are the best tools to use.

• If you are making concrete with sand or gravel on your construction site, use these units as buckets to scoop up these materials before adding your cement.
• Break your cement bags over the splitter on the side.
• Add water, mix, and discharge either by tilting the mixer downward or through a chute on the side.

Portable cement mixers allow your crew to mix concrete and cement on the spot using only a skid steer, water, and a basic raw materials readily available on the job site. This significantly reduces man hours, elimination of overtime, excessive expenditures on subcontracting ready mix suppliers, and time delays that can affect project completion.

Easy Rack has a number of other lifting, tilting, and material handling supplies in both used and new condition. Be sure to look at all your options today, and talk to a specialist about any customization requirements that will maximize the productivity.

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Forklift Grapple Buckets

What benefit can grapple buckets offer our operation?
Root grapples and grapple buckets enable you to safely and quickly move bulky, hard-to-handle materials easily and securely. Grapple buckets are essential tools in tree removal, land clearing, paving, and construction. Cleanup crews use this heavy construction equipment for loading and piling logs, limbs, and brush.

This is all due to the unique design of the grapple bucket itself, which allows dirt and sand to fall to the ground while larger pieces of wood, rubble, and debris remain in the bucket. The grapple tines on the end of the bucket curve upward to prevent contents from spilling onto the ground and to avoid snagging utility lines and cables that may be lying under piles of debris, limps, and fallen trees.

What can are some things that grapple buckets can be used for?
For one thing, they are the perfect tool for removing roots of trees that have been cut down. This is why they are often called “root grapplers.” These forklift attachments are also good for clearing away debris after demolition work has been done. Excess construction debris is easy to remove with grapple buckets. In areas where storms have devastated foliage, they are essential tools in the cleanup of storm debris. Grapple buckets are important to a number of activities essential to landscaping as are self dumping hoppers. They are used from everything from clearing out brush to moving earthworks.

What are the most significant features of grapple buckets?
One of the most important components of any grapple bucket and forklift attqachments is a set of hydraulic cylinders that allows the bucket to flexibility adjust itself to the diameter, circumference, and unequal weight distribution of cumbersome and uneven loads. These cylinders keep the unit from becoming too heavy and creating a safety hazard and it helps extend the life of the unit. To keep wear and tear to minimum on your material handling equipment, hydraulic cylinders, hoses, and fittings are protected with covers. Every pivot point is lubricated to maintain flexibility and avoid stress to moving parts. Cutting edges are punched so an optional bolt-on blade can be fitted securely to the grapple bucket. Additional tines can also be added if the space between existing tines is too small. This makes it easier to move piles of rubble or in landscaping work where a large amount of leaves, twigs, and other small trash items have to gripped firmly to avoid spillage.

Do we need a demolition grade grapple bucket?
You do if you are fitting a grapple bucket attachment to a “track” style skid steer, 70hp or greater skid steer, or skid steer that is rated at 3,500 lbs. capacity or more.

What features make a demolition grade unit unique?
Demolition grade units offer more capacity for uneven and extremely heavy loads with reinforcement gussets, and reliable performance is ensured by heavier component manufacture throughout. They also feature cylinder hoses routed in an enclosed tube for extra protection.

You can customize these heavy-duty models with end plates that contain loose materials and raised rings that protect grease fittings from damage. Ask one of our representatives about which of these options is best for your next project.

What other forklift products does Easy Rack carry?
• Hoist & Hook Attachments
• Forklift Boom Attachments
• Fork Lift Extensions
• Fork Truck Platforms
• Forklift Spreader Beams
• Forklift Ram Attachment
• Forklift Mounted Attachments
• Fork Truck Hoppers

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If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you or provide a complimentary quote.

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Jib Boom Forklift Truck Attachment

Why should we buy forklift attachment jibs instead of a jib crane?
We certainly won’t discourage you from buying one of our jib cranes if you need one, but please be aware that it might not be necessary. If you are on a budget, or if space on your project site is limited, jib forklift attachments can work equally effectively for most tasks that require a crane. They are less expensive than cranes and can perform at a fraction of the cost.

What are some of the things forklift attachment jibs can do?
Forklift attachment jibs allow you to reach over obstructions to place heavy loads on roofs, elevated platforms, and decks. You can use them to reach through windows and doorways to pick up loads from second and third story areas still under construction. Forklift jibs can also be used to load and unload flatbed trailers and trucks. Many companies use them to suspend trusses and to laminate wood, and heavy duty jibs can also be very useful when reaching over scaffolding for masonry work. Overall, they are some of the most useful tools you can invest in for moving and handling equipment on a construction site

How many swivel hooks do your jibs have?
Every forklift jib attachment is made with two swivel hooks. One hook is permanently fixed at the end of the crane jib, and the other hook can be manually placed at any location the underside of the boom. This allows you to pick up any load with two hook points. You can use one hook or two hooks to pick up a load, Be sure in either case that you make certain that the total weight of the jib and the load does not exceed the rated capacity of the jib as shown on the load chart for that extended or retracted position.

Each hook is individually rated at either 4000 lbs. or 6,000 lbs, depending on the size of the model.

Forklift Attachment jib Load Capacities
Maximum load capacity for forklift jibs can range from 1935-6000 lbs. Ask your forklift manufacturer or Easy Rack account manager about load limits for your particular application. Remember too that load capacity ratings are for the jib itself and not the forklift nor the maximum load that can be safely handled with a particular forklift. Anytime a forklift jib, is added to a fork truck it creates a new center of gravity and reduces the lift capacity of the forklift. Reference our article on “heavy duty jibs” for details on how to calculate these load limits, or call a member of our staff.

Jib Boom Forklift Attachment Safe Usage
Before using a forklift attachment jib or self dumping hopper, be certain that you have properly secured it to the forklift with shackles and hooks, and check to make sure that the screw pins are tight. Double check too that your load limit calculations are correct, and take into consideration while doing so that rated capacities can and will decrease when the boom is in a raised position, when telehandlers are used, or when you tilt the fork truck mast forward

Do not pull any load with a forklift jib. Jibs are designed exclusively for vertical lift. Use extreme caution to prevent the load from swinging and tipping over the fork truck.

What types of material handling equipment other than jib cranes does Easy Rack inventory?
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Forklift Bucket Attachments

Are forklift bucket attachments less expensive than loaders?
Yes, by all means they are. Not only are they less expensive than a loader purchase, they are less expensive than a loader rental. For less than the cost of renting a loader for two months, you can purchase a forklift bucket that transforms your extendable reach forklift into a material handling and loading device with greater range than standard loaders and far more adaptability to a number of mission critical applications.

Can buckets attached to forklifts handle the same applications as loaders?
Yes. A wide range of jobs such as dumping trash into a dumpster blocked by debris piles to placing gravel on a large, flat rooftop can be quickly, safely, and be safely and quickly accomplished with a quick-tach or slip-over-the-forks forklift bucket. This type of heavy duty construction equipment for forklifts is a great way to maximize your invests.

What are quick-tach buckets most used for?
These forklift attachments are often used for ground level work on new construction sites. They can also load sand and gravel, and construction crews in northern climates routinely use them to plow through snow. At the end of the day, these same bucket forklift attachments can be used for jobsite clean-up.

Do quick-tach buckets replace the forks on a fork truck?
Yes. This frees up more of the forkliftʼs load capacity so it can handle larger and heavier materials. The only disadvantage to this is that Quick-Tach forklift buckets are customized to specific makes & models of forklifts. If your forklift is not a compatible with a quick-tach unit, you will need to go with slip-over-the-forks, or universal fit bucket, as it is called.

Universal fit buckets can fit any size extendable reach forklift with forks that are 48" long and up to 6" wide. If you require larger fork pockets on your bucket, you can also order these an account manager.

Are there any specific advantages to a universal fit forklift bucket attachment?
Because universal fit forklift buckets slip on to the forks directly, they stay on the machine and are much more impervious to damage. They are 50% deeper than quick-tach units and thus ideal for carrying irregular shaped loads such as broken up concrete, elevating roof gravel, tearing off roof trash, moving large debris piles, and back filling behind high walls.

How do I know if I need a quick-tach unit or a universal fit bucket for my fork truck?
This will depend on your specific application, the elevation of your application, the materials involved, and most of all, the make, model, and capacity of your fork truck. Your Easy Rack account manager will help you make all the necessary calculations to find the best model that most suits your project.

What other forklift products does Easy Rack carry?
• Hoist & Hook Attachments
• Forklift Boom Attachments
• Fork Lift Extensions
• Fork Truck Platforms
• Forklift Spreader Beams
• Forklift Ram Attachment
• Forklift Mounted Attachments
• Fork Truck Hoppers

Are you looking for a loading dock equipment company? Easy Rack also carries a wide variety of commercial & industrial netting, used pallet racks, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting,and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you or provide a complimentary quote.

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Do You Use Forklift Work Platform Attachments, Industrial Step Ladders, Scaffolding or Manlifts?

Have you considered using your forklift as a ladder or working platform?
Forklift work platform attachments are a simple to use alternative to other types of elevated working platforms that will enable staff to use the lifting potential of the fork lift truck to get them into a place where they can carry out inspection or maintenance work at a high level. The platform provides staff with a decent sized place in which to work, and dependent on the actual design of the model that you choose, you will be able to carry out a wide variety of tasks that otherwise would have required a specific platform. They are also safer than some industrial ladders.

Are forklift work platforms safe and easy to use?
Forklift attached work platforms are safe and user friendly. All that is required for them is to slide the standard forks into the channels that form the base of the platform, and for it to be lifted. The platform is stable in use, and has a capacity that is sufficient for at least two employees to work comfortably without risk. Any lifting is subject to the limits imposed on the overall system by the fork lift truck rating that is being used.

Do fork lift workstations have specific safety features I should know about?
A safety chain needs to be fastened to the actual forklift truck to secure the forklift platform attachment. Next safety bars must be locked into place so that they securely protect the occupants. In addition to these basic precautions it is also suggested that users fasten themselves securely to the actual platform with a lanyard to prevent accidental falls.

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If you can not find the forklift attachment you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses and distribution centers located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, Fort Worth, Texas., El Paso, Texas., Charlotte, N.C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Fork Lift Attachments Provide Material Handling Diversity & Mobility.

Forklift attachments from Easy Rack are designed to give any fork lift operator a greater variety of uses for lift trucks in both the warehouse and the loading dock area. Special fork lift hoppers, for example can be used to move large quantities of materials, and then used as a self dumping hopper. Forklift attachments include extended forks that are able to give greater support to larger objects when they need to be lifted, and specially shaped forks that allow you to carry particular loads such as 55 gallon oil drums or move snow with a plow attachment.

Other popular fork lift attachments from Easy Rack include:

Hoist & hook attachments

Fork Lift Boom Attachments

Fork Truck Platforms

Fork Lift Extensions

Fork Lift Ram Attachments

The majority of the fork lift attachments available from Easy Rack are designed to refine rather than to reinvent the forklift, and to make it a much more specialized tool that can perform jobs more accurately and more safely. Some items such as protective sleeves for a fork lift are simple plastic items that simply fit over the existing fork to remove the sharp edges and ensure that less damage or injury is caused should the forklift crash into any item or person.

The fact is that no matter what the kind of load you need to lift, there is a special adaptation or forklift extension attachment that can make the job easier. While the standard model of forklift is an extremely capable and versatile tool that offers plenty of value as part of your range of material handling equipment, the fact is that by giving it additional equipment to allow it to carry out a wider variety of roles within the warehouse or factory, you also extend the value that it offers to your business.

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, and modular buildings installed nationwide. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you.

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