Forklifts

Charge the lead battery for eight hours and cool it for another eight. Refill the lithium during the lunch break. Here’s when that difference is worth the money, and when it isn’t.

The trailer is the most inconvenient workplace in the entire chain: narrow, dark, the floor is not flat, and there is no turning. The EP 20-N04 is a pallet truck made just for the job — 2,000 kg, lifting up to 250 mm and steering in an arc of 190°.

The drive is not chosen by the price of the machine, but by where it works and how many hours a day. Three questions and one table that solve the choice between electricity, diesel and gas.

With the lithium battery, an entire ritual disappears from the warehouse: the charging room, the cart for replacement, topping up with water and the power drop near the end of the shift. KBE 18-20 Li-ion charging during a coffee break — here’s when it pays off and when it doesn’t.

A 2.5 ton forklift does not always carry 2.5 tons. The number in the model name is valid only under certain conditions — and as soon as the load is extended or lifted higher, the actual load capacity drops. Here is how it is read and calculated.

At 1,600 kg, the stacker enters territory usually left to a forklift — while remaining narrower, cheaper and easier to maintain. What does AC motor and CANBUS mean, and when this machine solves the whole job in the hall.

The twelve checks we go through before a machine leaves our overhaul — now as a list you can take to someone else’s lot. With a PDF form for notes and post-purchase investment evaluation.

The two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half ton class is the busiest part of the market — the machine that unloads the truck, works on the lot, and enters the hall. The KBD/G 25-35 covers that job in diesel and LPG versions, with a lift of up to 6,500 mm.

Two machines, price difference of 5,000 euros — and the more expensive one is cheaper already after ten months of operation. Through six items and a specific example, we show how the cost of a forklift is calculated per working hour and why it is the only number that compares machines fairly.