Telehandler Attachments

Telehandler buckets, hoppers, jibs and fork extensions

Buckets and grapples

Choose telehandler buckets for loading and carrying loose material such as soil, stone, sand and feed in construction and agricultural work. Telehandler grapple buckets close a top jaw over the load, which holds bulky, fibrous material such as demolition waste, brush and manure that would spill from an open bucket. Neither is made for pouring concrete: a pour calls for one of the concrete buckets, which discharge in a controlled way where the concrete is needed.

Self-dumping hoppers

A self-dumping hopper collects waste at the work face and tips it into a dumpster while still on the forks, with the operator in the cab throughout. The auto-lock self-dumping hopper engages and releases the forks without anyone leaving the machine. The self-dumping hopper on casters stands on braked casters, so crews can wheel it to where waste is being made while the telehandler works elsewhere. Other formats are in the full range of self-dumping hoppers.

Fork extensions

Fork extensions slide over the existing forks to carry loads longer than the forks themselves, such as lumber, pipe, steel sections and oversized crates, and come off again when the work returns to pallets. They are chosen by the fork section on the machine, with fork extensions for 4 x 2 in forks for lighter machines. Larger machines take fork extensions for 6 x 2.4 in forks, and the heavy duty fork extensions are built and rated for heavier long loads on the same forks.

Jibs, lifting hooks and the materials cage

A fork-mounted lifting hook gives the forks a single lift point for non-palletized loads, such as machinery, precast items and rebar cages, that conventional forks cannot pick up. The low profile jib attachment adds reach through fixed hook positions along a short beam and suits low headroom, while the low profile extending jib slides out for more reach. The articulated extendable jib also angles upward to lift over walls, trench boxes and stacked materials, and jib ratings run up to 11,000 lb across the range. The materials lifting cage hangs from the hook to raise tools, fixings and light debris in one vertical lift. Gear for lifts that do not use the forks is in the lifting equipment range.

Bulk bag carriers

Bulk bags of sand, aggregate, topsoil and seed lift by their four loops, and the range carries them either on the forks or below a hook. The fork-mounted bulk bag carrier slides onto the forks and takes the loops on four lugs. The hook-hung sand bag carrier hangs by its center eye from a lifting hook or jib, which places the bag where the forks cannot reach. Both are rated up to 4,400 lb.

Drum lifters and drum tilters

Four attachments move 55-gallon drums without manual handling. The 55-gallon drum lifter clamps the top rib of closed steel drums automatically, and the rim grip drum lifter grips steel or plastic drums by the rim, both in single and double-drum versions. Where the contents have to be poured, the forklift drum tilter lifts and tips a drum on the forks. The crane drum tilter does the same below a hook, controlled by a crank handle or looped chain.

Waste cart lifters and the dumpster compactor

The waste cart lifter picks up a wheeled waste cart and tips it with a crank and mechanical stop, so nobody lifts the cart by hand. The waste cart stacker moves several carts or one large container in a single trip. Once a dumpster is filling, the fork-mounted dumpster compactor presses bulky waste down so more goes in before each haul and the dumpster is collected less often. Together with a self-dumping hopper filled at the work face and carts tipped by the cart lifter, it gives a waste route from the floor where waste is made to the haul with no hand lifting, and the magnet and sweeper clear what falls along the way.

Fork-mounted magnets and sweepers

A fork-mounted magnet runs just above the ground along haul roads, laydown yards and warehouse lanes, collecting nails, screws, wire and steel shavings before they puncture tires or injure someone. For dust, grit and mixed debris, the forklift sweeper collector has a powered broom that sweeps into its own collector bucket and a water tank to keep dust down.

Manhole ring lifter

The manhole ring lifter grips precast concrete rings with self-closing jaws and serrated pads, so utility crews set manhole and storm structure sections without slings or straps around the ring.

Fork size, rated capacity and locking to the forks

Fork section and length

Fork-mounted attachments fit by the width and thickness of the forks and, for some, by fork length. Measure each fork at the heel and along the blade, then compare the figures with the fork section on the listing: fork extensions are made for specific sections, and the carriers and the ring lifter state the largest fork they accept. The same measurement applies across our forklift attachments.

Rated capacity and load center

An attachment's rating is the most the attachment itself can carry, and it is only half of the check. The lift is limited by the lower of that rating and the machine's capacity at the load center the attachment creates, so choose a rating at or above the heaviest load and confirm the machine can carry that load at that position.

How the attachment locks to the forks

Heel pins pass behind the heel of each fork, thumbscrews clamp the attachment to the blade, and the auto-lock on the self-dumping hoppers engages the forks on its own. Whatever the method, the fixing is what holds the attachment in place when the machine brakes, travels over rough ground or tilts the carriage forward, so it is engaged before the load leaves the ground and before any travel.