Push Pulls
Slip sheets in place of pallets
The Push Pull attachment provides a cost-effective solution, whereby standard wooden or plastic pallets are substituted by an inexpensive slip sheet, increasing shipping volume. The attachment is connected to a conventional forklift truck and can be swiftly disconnected to return to handling pallets.
A push pull grips the lip of a slip sheet, drags the load onto a smooth platen and then pushes it back off at the destination. The pallet is replaced by a sheet of fibreboard or plastic a few millimetres thick, which is the whole point: the weight, the cost and the cubic space of the pallet all come out of the supply chain.
Export and beverage operations use it most, because a container loaded on slip sheets carries measurably more product than the same container loaded on pallets. Fork-mounted versions can be removed in minutes, so a truck can go back to conventional pallet work between containers instead of standing idle.
Also known as: Slip sheet attachment · Push-pull carriage · Fork-mounted push pull
Benefits
- Fast removal and installation, with no need to remove forks
- Allows easy handling of goods on slip sheets
- Slip sheets reduce packaging weight
- Fork-mounted units available
- Can be removed in minutes to return to a conventional lift truck
Where it is used
- Container loading and export consignments where cubic space is paid for
- Beverage, food and bagged-goods distribution on slip sheets
- Operations that want to stop paying for one-way pallets
- Sites needing to switch between slip sheet and pallet handling on the same truck
Specification
- Handling
- Slip sheets
- Fitment
- Fork-mounted available
- Changeover
- Minutes, forks stay on
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
Push Pulls — questions
- 01How much space does slip sheet handling save?
- A slip sheet is a few millimetres thick against roughly 140 mm for a wooden pallet, and it weighs a fraction as much. In a container that difference converts directly into additional payload and fewer shipments.
- 02Can the truck still handle pallets?
- With a fork-mounted push pull, yes — it is designed to be removed and refitted quickly without taking the forks off, so the same truck goes back to pallet work between container loads.