{"id":70498,"date":"2015-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/blog\/forklift-vs-pallet-jack-your-stretch-wrapper-needs-to-answer-yes\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:08:46","slug":"forklift-vs-pallet-jack-your-stretch-wrapper-needs-to-answer-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/forklift-vs-pallet-jack-your-stretch-wrapper-needs-to-answer-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Forklift vs. Pallet Jack – Your Stretch Wrapper Needs to Answer “Yes”"},"content":{"rendered":"
You’re thinking about buying, replacing or upgrading a stretch wrapper. One of the first and most fundamental questions you always ask is, “how will it be loaded – with a forklift or a pallet jack?”<\/p>\n
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That invariably leads to a narrowing range of options, since some machines are designed to only be loaded by forklifts. And you might then assume that a machine which can be loaded with a pallet jack is the right choice because it can also, obviously, be loaded with a forklift. And you’d be right…sort of.<\/p>\n
What we know from experience is that business changes. Not only does the nature of loads tend to change, but that labor costs, staffing, throughput etc. change as well.<\/p>\n
And that means that it’s worth looking at options for upgrades and flexibility throughout the life of a machine before you buy one.<\/p>\n
It seems today that nearly every customer has specific requirements for load put-ups, pallet configurations, labeling, etc. Maybe you normally stack your product five rows high (call it 60″). Sooner or later your sales and marketing team will find an exciting new customer whose warehouse receiving requirements call for loads eight rows high. Wouldn’t you hate to tell someone the machine you recently bought won’t work? We didn’t think so.<\/p>\n
Maybe you say this to changes in loads: “Ours can only stack 5 layers high. I’m not concerned.” OK. And you may well be right. But what if stronger cases, squared up<\/a> and properly column stacked, gave you better protection. And what if better load containment<\/a> actually allowed you to make better use of the trailer cube? Imagine what that would mean for your delivered costs to customers?<\/p>\n It could be that the length, width, height and weight of your loads will never change. But they’re not the only things that are likely to change.<\/p>\nLabor costs, staffing and throughput<\/h2>\n