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Transporting a forklift

  • 10-03-2014 11:02pm
    #1
    foxy farmer
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    Evening folks. Neighbour of mine has bought a secondhand forklift. Must be transported about 50 miles. What would a gas powered version rated between 1- 2t capacity weigh? Would a 3t plant trailer on a LR Defender be up to the job? Or is something more substantial required? Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Evening folks. Neighbour of mine has bought a secondhand forklift. Must be transported about 50 miles. What would a gas powered version rated between 1- 2t capacity weigh? Would a 3t plant trailer on a LR Defender be up to the job? Or is something more substantial required? Thanks in advance.

    Heeeaaaaavvvvvyyyy, is what they weigh, and they are Loooow to the ground - so they won't go onto most trailers. Best bet is a tilt and slide recovery truck, and one that can handle 4-5 ton... Moving forklifts is a massive pain tbh, unless you have the right gear.


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    MrFoxman360
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    Well just for a little bit of reference, we have a 2.5 ton diesel Hyster forklift and it weighs a little over 4 tons.

    They can be difficult to load onto a trailer and you would need strong ramps. A plant trailer would be best as it has a low bed. If you got a 3.5 ton gross capacity trailer it would probably be ok to carry 3 tons or so, but just make sure you can get the forklift up on to it. I think LR Defenders are rated to pull 3500kgs anyway.

    If you were to take a look around the forklift there might be a plate on it somewhere that would have the weight of the machine stamped on it.


  • #4
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    MrFoxman360 wrote: »
    Well just for a little bit of reference, we have a 2.5 ton diesel Hyster forklift and it weighs a little over 4 tons.

    They can be difficult to load onto a trailer and you would need strong ramps. A plant trailer would be best as it has a low bed. If you got a 3.5 ton gross capacity trailer it would probably be ok to carry 3 tons or so, but just make sure you can get the forklift up on to it. I think LR Defenders are rated to pull 3500kgs anyway.

    If you were to take a look around the forklift there might be a plate on it somewhere that would have the weight of the machine stamped on it.

    Thanks for that fellow Fox! He never thought to check the spec plate for weight when buying it. I think someone advised him to get a recovery lorry or hiab as it would destroy a standard trailer and might be overweight legally as well. Plenty hauliers would be interested in the job. Towing that sort of weight behind a Defender would be interesting to say the least. Not worth the hassle either. Thanks in any case lads.


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