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Electric pallet jack question no. 11.... fork height relation to battery weight ?

Milacron

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CAT 6K electric pallet jack where the fork height should be 3.3" In this case that is pretty much the measurement at the tips, but is actually more like 3.6" a foot from fork base.

I suspect this is because of no battery and the regular 1,200 lb battery would cause the rear to sink enough for the height to be 3.3". However I don't think there is any suspension on the drive wheel and hard to believe the solid rubber tire would "squash" that much with 1,200 lbs...esp when it's designed to pick up another 6,000 lbs beyond that. Thoughts ?

I ask this as it's pretty important that any pallet jack forks are under 3.5" height all the way due to needing to pick up machines sitting on 4x4 skids or the lumber alone.
 








 
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