'IGGYBACK TREATMENT
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ooi-Aap's truck-mounted fork-lift has been around le UK for more than 30 years but recent manual andling restrictions and just-in-time deliveries ave boosted its popularity. It and rival makes now )ring up in almost every area of transport.
[owever, regular maintenance is as important as )r the carrier vehicle. Bryan Jarvis visited the Kooiap concessionaire to see how they're serviced...
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far removed from Britain's industrial heartlands, but Bill Bennett Engineering's long-term involvement with the Kooi-Aap vehicle-mounted i-lift provides an automatic link with iy elements of vital distribution. Nhether it's the Dutch-made Kali, a tett Mounty or any of the other Genders, all of these vehicles are versatools with many uses. In the building de alone they handle everything n roofing materials and cement to ;ks and blocks, while for the landping and garden-care sector they carry peat, turf, gravel and fencing.
With other users Including carriers of chemicals, waste paper. insulation, carpets, and fruit and vegetables the list seems endless.
But whatever make is chosen, a fork-lift and its carrying vehicle must be carefully matched, to gain maximum payload without risk of axle overloading. or of being light over the front axle when travelling empty.
Generally they can carry two-tonne loads and have optional all-wheel drive; some can even steer and travel crablike sideways to move a icing load through a small opening. The driver needs to be familiar with the extra weight carried on the tall of the vehicle but the real bonus is in being able to load up quickly and make deliveries in minutes, without having to hang around for others.
Regular servicing
What does a service involve? Regular daily and weekly checks are carried out by the driver back at the garage, while the 150-hour or three-monthly service and annual checks are fairly straightforward tasks for any mechanic with the right equipment.
Many owners opt for an R&M (repair and maintenance) contract through any of Bill Bennett's 22 service agents,