Southworth Stack-N-Go FPS3000-43NFO-21, Owner'S Manual

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12 Southworth Products FPS3000-43NFO-21/27 Manual
5. Operation
5.1 To Raise and Lower
There are two buttons located on both sides of the handle. The inside one is for lowering the forks.
The outside one is for raising the forks. When operating, always make sure the load being lifted
is within the loading capacity of your stacker and the load has been stacked safely on the pallet.
Also, make sure that the length of the forks corresponds to the length of the pallet. In this way, the
load rollers will place themselves in the opening at the end of the pallet, so that when you raise
the forks, you will not break the bottom boards of the pallet. Always make sure that when entering
the pallet that the forks are in the fully lowered position. Be careful when lifting pallets that are too
short or too long for the stacker. It might destroy your pallet by breaking the bottom boards, and
if the forks project through the end of the pallet, the tips of fork may go into the next pallet that is
behind the pallet that you are lifting, which may bend the tips of forks and overload the capacity of
the stacker.
5.2 Travel Function
To travel, rotate the butterfly controls throttle on the upper part of the handle. When rotating the
butterfly control towards the forks, the stacker runs forwards in the forks first direction. When
rotating the butterfly towards the operator, the stacker runs in the reverse direction. Always make
sure the stacker clears any obstruction when traveling, and that your path of travel is clear of
people. Never carry loads above the loading capacity of the stacker. It is suggested that when
traveling without a load, the forks be in the lowered position. The speed of the stacker is increased
by the degree of the rotation in either direction; it functions like a throttle. W hen you release your
hand from the butterfly control, it automatically will resume to the neutral position and the speed of
the stacker will slow down, and come to a stop.
5.3 Turtle Speed Travel
When the butterfly control is engaged forward (toward the forks) or reverse (toward the operator
if the operator simultaneously engages the turtle speed button the forward and/or reverse speed
is limited to 50% of full speed or turtle speed. The operator can engage the butterfly forward with
the right hand and engage the turtle speed button with the left hand. The operator can engage
the butterfly forward with the left hand and engage the turtle speed button with the right hand. The
reverse operation is also controlled with either hand. The turtle speed is maintained only when the
turtle speed button is engaged. When the turtle speed button is not engaged the unit will operate
at full speed. The turtle speed button is a maintained contact operation.
Turtle Speed