How to Choose the Perfect Pallet Jack?

The health and safety of your employees is of the utmost importance in every business today, not only to protect them from personal injury but to reduce injury costs to your bottom line. Undoubtedly the most common place for injury is in the warehouse where most of the lifting and movement of stock takes place.This means that if you stock a warehouse, you must have a cost-effective way of moving stock in and out with minimal risk of injury. By far the cheapest and most reliable way to move stock is by using a pallet jack.

There are two different types of pallet jacks Melbourne commonly used today, the simplest is the manual jack which is ideal for use in warehouses where pallets are mainly stored at ground level, the manual pallet jack looks like a dolly with a dolly on the front. There are thorns at the end. The operator moves behind the manual jack, controlling the direction of the jack with a simple steering mechanism. The forks slide under the pallet, and the operator uses a lever to gently operate the lifting mechanism on the device. A manual pallet jack is used to move elevated pallets to a new location on the warehouse or plant floor.

Here are some questions to ask you when purchasing the pallet jacks Sydney. The first would be how heavy a stock you carry. As a guide most jacks on the market are designed to lift 2500kg, which will generally cover most warehouse uses as carrying more than 2500kg will be beyond most storemen.

The next question would be "What is the floor surface it will be used on?" The main reason I ask this question is because pallet jacks are available with either polyurethane or nylon wheels. Polyurethane wheels are suitable for shopping centres, tiled floors, marble floors, wooden floors as these wheels will not mark. Nylon wheels are tough and suitable for concrete and warehouse floors, but they will mark.

Finally, you will notice that if you look around the warehouse you will see that the pallets themselves come in two main different widths. These are often grouped into Euro or standard pallets. Euro pallet jacks are designed with hooks closer together (typically 450-570 mm) than the standard 685 mm apart. If you intend to use popular cheap or cheap pallets then you will get standard jack but if you are using euro pallets then euro jack will be more useful. The only exception is if the jack is to be used in the back of the truck where space is at a premium. Euro would probably be the best option in this case.