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Joystick makes tyre handling easier

QUEENSLAND forklift company Norlift has teamed with Hydraulink Cairns to design a Rexroth joystick controller for the Hyundai tyre-handling forklifts it supplies to Rio Tinto’s Weipa and Gove bauxite mines in the far north of the state.

The joystick fitted Hyundai tyre-handling forklift.

The joystick fitted Hyundai tyre-handling forklift.

Norlift was tasked by Rio to supply a fleet of Hyundai 160D-7 forklifts with cascade tyre handlers, to change tyres and carry out maintenance on haul and belly dumper trucks onsite.  Norlift owner Greg...

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