Steel & Metal Handling

Case Study - Long Term Steel Handling

Steel stockholding is one of the most demending markets, therefore lift trucks need to be strong, rugged, reliable of these features are as integral to a Sidetracker as its exceptional manoeuvrability and space-saving ability.

The fact that Sidetrackers provide reliable operation year after year in demanding working conditions, indoors and out demonstrates their quality. Our three-year warranty option underlines our own confidence in the vehicles.

Many Sidetrackers are used for more than 20 years with no attention other than routine servicing. Unusually for fork lift trucks, most Sidetracker customers buy their vehicles outright, because they have such confidence in their long-term reliability.

Quality is built into the vehicles from the bottom up. For example, high-grade 50mm steel is used for the main chassis sections. Repairing a fatigue fracture on a Sidetracker chassis is simply unknown.

The electro-hydraulic twin power system is also extremely strong and reliable. It is designed so that the two motors automatically run together or singly, depending on the power required. A Sidetracker can be driven on one motor if the other ever fails, without a fall in capacity.

When reliability is so important, well-proven technology is the best option. Customers particularly welcome the absence of electronic components, which on other lift trucks have proved so unreliable and expensive.