Dimboola

Dimboola
Dimboola station. This great photo was taken by my son Craig

Sunday 22 April 2012

Early Stack reachers

Australian National, in operating its Islington terminal, employed several stack reachers and fork lifts. The following links, show some operation mid 1980's.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpdbear/4534125789/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpdbear/4534758426/in/photostream/

http://westonlangford.com/media/photos/116966.jpg

 Below is a diagram I used to adjust the Kibri kit. Many stack reachers are of a similar design to this machine. ( This picture came from http://explow.com from US Patent Office for Mitsubishi designed reach stacker).