I'm Ted from Everything Attachments. We're going to show you the compact pallet forks, and we're going to show you why they're compact pallet forks, and how they're designed. Now, this is about as large a tractor as you would want to use for these compact pallet forks. These are rated for up to 50 horsepower, 1800 pounds of lift, and they do use a round rod, but they're not what's called a "floating fork", which I hate. If you put the round bar at the top of the fork, then the fork will float. In other words, if you had a pallet of trash, and you wanted to dump it into a dumpster, when it gets to about a 30-degree angle, the fork will just start to float out. It won't let you dump it off the end of your forks.

These will let you turn it totally vertical, drop whatever you want off. If you want to put down pressure on them, you can. The way that they work, they slide real easy if you pick up on it a little bit. God, they're hot. It's 100 degrees today. OK, so they slide over easy, but what keeps them from moving around is they're hitting here, they’re hitting here. The pipe is in the middle so when it pushes sideways, it locks and jams. You can't make it go over, unless it doesn't have a load on it, and you slide. So, it slides over easy, locks into position easy, works great. They're built specifically to be light for compact tractors.

Now, we do a lot of these for John Deeres, especially the little CX 200s. The forks that John Deere offers are just too heavy. They take too much of your lifting capacity away. These are perfect for anything up to about this size tractor. We're going to show you how to lift some pallets and things with them. It has a small rack on it. The key to these forks is using really good high-quality steel, instead of mild steel; being able to keep it thin and light with a full visibility so you can see what you're doing. There's nothing worse than a set of those forks that goes inside your bucket. They're going to bend your bucket, and you can't see what you're doing. Everything by Construction Attachments is made in North Carolina here, in the good old USA.

This was about 2,000 pounds of topsoil. I've used some on it. Probably weighs about 1600, 1800 pounds now. So, having a set of pallet forks around the house is just great. Every time you want to move something, it sure does beat moving them any other way. So, just remember to keep a set around because you've got a quick attach on the front of your tractor. As easy as they are to put on, you'll be surprised how often you find putting them on and off.

Now, something to keep to remember for safety that a lot of people don't think about. A tractor needs to be weighted properly because the key thing with using a set of forks is that both rear tires have to stay on the ground to be stable. As soon as one tire lifts off the ground, the front is not a solid straight axle. It's on a pin in the center. And then, when the rear end lifts up, it's going to go one way or the other, and that's how you turn over and get hurt. So, remember to keep your tractor weighted properly on the back, and remember that that front axle has a pin in the middle where it pivots. It's going to let it shift if the rear end comes off the ground.

Okay, so we're just going to unhook this regular bucket here. This has the standard universal quick attach, two levers. Okay, pull out of your bucket, peanut. We also do offer this in the John Deere-style quick attach, which the John Deere-style quick attach is going to be the hitch that has two round hooks that go over the top, and then you have two round pins that come out that go through your tractor's faceplate. And, you know it if you've got it. You put your two lynch pins in from behind. Works pretty good, but I like the universal quick attach a lot better. Even John Deere is now offering the John Deere-style hitch, or the regular universal-style hitch as an option, to get away from their own hitch. Come on in. So, it's that easy to hook up.