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Spring Lake, MI | Adding duals to that size forklift is quite do-able. I worked at a MCFA dealership in 97-98. We would add duals to those. The parts dept had a standard spacer that bolted onto the wheel studs and had a dual mounted. We installed both equal-size tires and one size smaller tires on the duals.
A word of caution:
1) as soon as guys could get by without the duals they removed them for better access & maneuverability.
2) those forklifs do not have a lot of torque (gradability in lift truck lingo) and the duals ususlly indicated soft underfoot conditions. Thus making the forklift perform poorly.
3) the rear axle tends to get a guy stuck when off of hard surfaces: the duals do not help with that.
4) the duals do not help in snow.
Once in a great while the situation called for duals and they were valuable. Most of the customers were disappointed.
One example of where a customer liked them: a directional boaring company used a V50 for moving bundles of drill rod (or whatever their stuff is called) from the shop to an outside rack. The shop was concrete. The rack area was concrete. The area between was gravel. With the long rods on a 48" carriage, side-to-side stability was improved with duals for crossing the gravel. | |
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Adding Duals to Forklift
