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Looking at getting a set of these made up. Lifting pallets with straps nearly allways ends up breaking the pallet.

 

Anyone use similar for lifting pallets with hiab's ?

 

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I kept an eye on eBay a bit some pallet forks cheap ( I can't copy a link but type hiab forks into eBay) but I like the look of those. I paid £165 for mine but had bit of a wait for some cheap ones to come up.

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Looking at getting a set of these made up. Lifting pallets with straps nearly allways ends up breaking the pallet.

 

Anyone use similar for lifting pallets with hiab's ?

 

pallett-bars.jpg

 

So if you have them made up will they be tested/ inspected etc?

If not and something broke and someone was injured then you would be in trouble not to mention having the injury or worse on your conscience.

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To be fair u could still strap right under the pallet just run it throu the bar at the ends, mibee better with open loops then and mibee 2 catchers on underside of metal so strap can't slip forward/back, so u could slide straps in them.

So strops still under pallet and pallet strengthed by ur 2 metal bars

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I have used 2 lengths of scaffold pole with a chain through each worked a treat.

 

what a top idea. off to get the cutter out and prune the scaff on our site....

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2 lengths of thick walled scaffie, and 2 good slings, never had any problems

 

That's a good idea, take it you mean threading the sling through the scaffie tube?

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going to bore a hole in each end to hook into from the 4 hook sling. each of the 4 arms of the chain are rated at 1t. nice and adjustable for blocks/bricks/tiles etc. Allways lose some tiles when just using strops through the pallet.

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Over the years I've seen several welds let go through lack of penetration, many cracks due to fatigue and poor manufacture resulting in high stress concentrations. This is why I was thinking best to buy the correct items rather than get joe down the road to make it.

I'm sure a short piece of scaffold piece would do it especially if kept short and has had an event free life.

 

However from the replies I wonder how many of you bother with LOLER.

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