Posted By Alan Murphy I have recently noticed that because our forklifts go outside transporting Metal stillages. If they stop abruptly the stillage can sometimes slide off, even with full tilt on. This must of been a problem elsewhere. I am just wondering what if any solutions anyone has come up with. For instance something on forks to provide extra grip or something on end of forks. Any ideas will be very welcome.

Posted By Jerry Lucey Hi Alan, I would be very wary of putting anything onto the forks to make the forks less slippery as such a solution may obscure faults/ cracks on the forks, especially at the heel of the forks where there is an increased risk of the forks snapping. If you are continuously using the same stillages you might look at having the sides of the lifting pockets on the stillage extended backwards on one side past the heel of the forks and having holes drilled in order to have a bolt fixed which would sit behind the heel of the forks while in transit to fix it to the forks and prevent slippage. This is the arrangement in many personnel lifting cages. Such an arrangement may need to be CE marked. Once any such modification is made it would be wise to let all know that this is a goods only stillage and not suitable for personnel. Frank raised a valid point as to why the operator is braking to the extent where the cage slides. All Operators trained under the RTITB and ITSSAR syallabus are trained to drive at a speed consistant with the load being transported and general conditions, however metal and metal, particularly when wet is always a risk. Handling metal stillages would normally be included in basic or specific job training, as transporting and stacking these are a high risk areas and very different from handling other loads.