Pak Budi, a Southeast Asian palm plantation owner, once faced a rainy season nightmare — continuous heavy rains made field ridges extremely muddy. Traditional forklifts got stuck in the mud, leaving only 4 hours of effective daily operation. It wasn't until an Agricultural Handling Forklift specially designed for harsh terrain entered his plantation that the rainy season operation time miraculously doubled to 8 hours. Behind this are three core technologies that precisely conquer muddy scenarios:
1.Four-wheel drive system: The "traction engine" in the mud
Ordinary two-wheel drive forklifts get stuck in mud immediately, while professional Agricultural Handling Forklift are equipped with intelligent four-wheel drive systems (such as HWC-35A's 265 dual high-low speed torque converter), which can automatically distribute torque between wheels. Field tests in Indonesia show: when one side of the tires slip, the four-wheel drive system transfers power to the gripping wheels within 0.3 seconds. With the rigid support of cast steel axles, the mud slope climbing angle reaches 38° — equivalent to stable driving on a 45% inclined wet and slippery slope.
2.Wide-tread anti-slip tires: Grip every inch of mud
Deep groove tread is the key to surviving muddy ground! Such Agricultural Handling Forklift come standard with widened herringbone pattern tires (such as HWC-40A's 16/70-20 Longgong pattern tires), with a tread depth of 2cm, increasing mud discharge by 40% compared to ordinary tires. A comparison in a Brazilian sugarcane farm found: wide treads expand the ground contact area by 35% in mud, reducing the slip rate from 42% to 8%. Combined with the anti-trapping chassis with 30cm ground clearance, it completely eliminates the dilemma of "wheels spinning, body not moving".
3.Raised chassis design: "Anti-trapping armor" with 30cm ground clearance
The biggest fear in mud is chassis grounding. Professional Agricultural Handling Forklift (such as HWCY-50A) raise the ground clearance to 300mm, 20% higher than conventional models, ensuring unimpeded travel in muddy water up to 25cm deep. Maria, a Colombian coffee plantation owner, feedback: "During the rainy season, mud reaches the ankles, but the forklift chassis remains above the mud surface, and the hydraulic cylinders are completely free from mud and water erosion."
4.Why can this Agricultural Handling Forklift become the ace in the rainy season?
It uses the four-wheel drive system to solve power dilemmas, wide treads to reshape gripping logic, and a high chassis to isolate mud and water threats — the combination of the three increases rainy season operation efficiency by 100%. Just as data from Indonesian palm plantations shows: the average daily handling volume in the rainy season jumped from 80 tons to 160 tons, reducing annual losses by $120,000.
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