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C
A
B
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Figure 7-15.--Best way to load a pallet.
from which specially designed hooks are suspended at
front and rear (figure 7-17, View C). The attachment is
lowered over the drums until the hooks drop into
position over the drum rims. This attachment handles
two filled drums at one time. The third type of
attachment, which is vertically operated, handles one
filled drum at a time. (See figure 7-17, View D). The
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SPACER
ON TOP TIER
fourth type of drum-handling attachment operates on
the principle of vacuum. This attachment is not in wide
use. This is because of the expense involved in the
installation of this attachment and the fact that once
installed the use of the forklift truck is restricted to drum
handling only.
CARGO NET SLING
The cargo net sling (figure 7-18) is made of nylon
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straps in a crisscross pattern to form a 12-foot square or
Figure 7-16.--Palletized gas cylinders
14-foot square net. The four comers of the net have steel
rings sewn in for the pickup hoist hooks or lines used to
which is a steel bar from which a series of sling hooks
form an apex. In this type of sling, no bars are used as
are suspended.
supports. The idea being that the net closes about the
Other drum-handling equipment in use includes
material being lifted.
several forklift truck attachments capable of handling
Cargo net slings are generally used aboard Combat
filled 55-gallon drums. Four such attachments are
Logistics Force (CLF) ships for underway
available. The first consists of a series of specially
replenishment (UNREP) operations support. Pallets of
shaped and spaced forks that cradle the drums to be
cargo can be placed in the net and transferred with a
handled. (See figure 7-17, View B). Normally this
minimum of loss. Some ships use cargo net slings for
attachment is fabricated to handle three filled drums at
handling miscellaneous cargo that is placed directly into
one time. The second type of attachment, which is
the net as shown in figure 7-18.
mounted on the regular truck forks, consists of side rails
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