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If you have made the choice to buy a new or used slip steer loader you are possibly thanking yourself and wishing you would have added this machine to your fleet of apparatus years ago. These machines are compact and can be quite handy for doing several different jobs inside a day at a construction jobsite. These machines are also easy to run so you don’t have to spend lots of time and cash hiring and training a specialized operator.
Another thing that makes this machine so popular is its flexibility. Normally when you buy a slip machine, it’s going to be sold to you with a bucket on the front end. However, the next most popular tool that people purchase for their skid steer to use on the front end are forks. Slide steer forks can be quite handy to use around the areas that you are working in.
You might imagine that if you go looking for a set of forks to use on the front of your machine it will be simple as there’s possibly only one or two decisions. If this is your thought process, you’re going to be quite surprised when you visit your local gear dealer. There are a wide variety of skid steer forks that change in length, width, and so forth.
You can get additional long Skid Steer Forks if you want some additional reach to pick up a pallet. You can also get forks with the tines that are moveable so you can space them in the exact width they need to be for your specific job. These work through manual adjustments and aren’t hydraulically activated. This is really handy thought because depending on the size and shape of the pallet or material you are moving, you can always be sure that your skid forks will be ready to handle the job.
If youwork in afarming application, you can get forks that are specially designed to pick up hay bails. Or if you’re stacking hay, you can get the back of the forks additional high so it can help you stack the hay 4 or five tall.
As was discussed above, you can get Skid Steer Forks designed particularly for the application you want. Think about that youwill be using your skid steer forks for and then talk with your local sales rep that can help brainstorm and give you advice on what the best forks will be.
