During the orchard picking season, fresh fruits like apples and citrus may suffer losses from improper handling at every step from the branches to the baskets and then to the transport vehicles - bruising, bumping, squeezing... At this time, an Agricultural Field Material Handler adapted to the orchard scene becomes the "savior"! It is specially designed for orchard material handling and can accurately solve the handling problems of fruit baskets/transfer cases. Let's break down its core advantages combined with real overseas farm cases.
First, the fork spacing can be flexibly adjusted. Fruit baskets in different orchards come in various sizes (commonly 40cm×60cm to 50cm×70cm). Traditional forklifts require repeated fork replacement or manual adjustment, which is time-consuming and likely to damage fruits due to shaking. In contrast, the agricultural field forklift for orchard allows 5-speed electric adjustment of the fork spacing, adapting to mainstream transfer cases within 30 seconds, with stable clamping and no displacement. This increases the single-trip handling efficiency by 40%.
The anti-slip fork design is the second guarantee. The surface of fresh fruit baskets is smooth, and the forks of traditional forklifts are prone to slipping, causing the baskets to tilt and fruits to roll off. Hengwang's Agricultural Field Material Handler uses serrated anti-slip forks , which increase the friction by 3 times. The test shows that only 0.5% of 100 baskets of apples are slightly displaced during handling, almost with zero loss.
The low-vibration cockpit is more critical. Orchard roads are often potholed, and traditional forklifts vibrate greatly. Drivers often make sudden stops and turns to stabilize the goods, aggravating fruit collisions. The cockpit of Hengwang forklifts is equipped with a hydraulic shock absorption system, with a vibration value of less than 0.8m/s² (the industry average is 1.5m/s²), allowing drivers to operate more smoothly. In a test on the farm of Jake, a citrus grower in California, USA, the damage rate of citrus dropped from 7% to 1.5% after using it.
Jake said in an interview: "In the past, when using ordinary forklifts to transport oranges, 10% of a truckload would be crushed; after switching to the Hengwang HWC-30 Agricultural Field Material Handler, only 75 cases of the 5,000 cases of oranges were lost this season, saving nearly 3,000 US dollars!"
If you also want to reduce orchard handling losses and improve efficiency, please contact us for a customized solution - click on the official website for consultation or make an appointment for on-site testing, and let your Agricultural Field Material Handler become the "invisible fresh-keeping warehouse" of the orchard!
