Block Handlers
Masonry and brick without pallets
The Block Handler is engineered for the safe and efficient handling of masonry and brick units without the need for pallets. This attachment is perfect for transporting and stacking various building materials, featuring an optimised structural design that provides the operator with superior visibility.
A block handler clamps a stacked bundle of bricks, blocks or precast units from the sides and lifts it without a pallet. The arms are profiled to grip a rough masonry face, and the frame is built around the abuse that a brickyard hands out.
It is used at the making end and the selling end: moving cured product off the yard into stock, and loading a delivery vehicle at a builders merchant. Because the bundle never sits on a pallet, the yard does not have to buy, store, sort and repair thousands of them.
Also known as: Brick clamp · Masonry clamp · Block clamp
Benefits
- T-shaped sliding pair provides high strength and uniform force distribution
- Self-lubricating sliding supports ensure reliable, long-lasting performance
- Integrated side-shifting improves accuracy and operational efficiency
- Durable construction designed specifically for heavy building materials
Where it is used
- Brick and block plants moving cured product into and out of stock
- Precast concrete and cast stone yards
- Builders merchants loading delivery vehicles
- Stone processing and dimensional stone handling
Specification
- Handling
- Pallet-free masonry
- Sliding pair
- T-shaped, self-lubricating
- Function
- Integrated side shift
Capacities, jaw ranges and rotation are model-specific — the exact figures are confirmed against your truck and load when we quote.
Fits ISO Class II, III and IV fork carriages
In service on Toyota, Linde, Hyster, Jungheinrich, TCM, Manitou, JCB, Feeler, Yale and Komatsu trucks across the region.
- Hydraulic attachments run off the truck’s auxiliary services; where a truck has too few, an additional service or a solenoid selector can be fitted.
- Mechanical attachments slip over standard fork arms and need no hydraulic connection at all.
- Fitting an attachment changes the truck’s rated capacity, so the derated capacity plate is confirmed as part of the quote.
South Africa & Zambia
Attachments are supplied from Nelspruit for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini and Lesotho, and through the Kitwe branch for Zambia, the Copperbelt and the southern DRC corridor.
- South Africa — head office, warehouse and service in Nelspruit, with stockholding in Johannesburg
- Zambia — branch office and warehouse in Kitwe, plus a supply depot in Solwezi
- Cross-border freight and documentation arranged per consignment where the destination requires it