Stacking aisle widths

Protection of facilities that are exposed to a fire hazard from an outdoor storage area is preferably achieved passively by adequate separation distance to the potentially exposed facilities. When the quantity of stored material is large, it should be separated into smaller groups or piles with adequate aisle space maintained to prevent uncontrolled fire spread within the defined storage area. An often used spacing guide for stacked or piled materials is aisle width should equal stack height. 

These areas should be laid out so that there is adequate room to manoeuvre the trucks, especially in the rack aisles. Truck manufacturers will give the minimum width of stacking aisle required for their trucks and a simple method for calculating it is given in Figure 27.1. Blind corners should be... 

Figure 27.1 Width of stacking aisle for fork trucks...

Counterbalanced Trucks. The counterbalanced trucks (Fig. 4.42) use their large, carefully positioned weight mass to offset (counterbalance) the moved load mass.These trucks are generally equipped with a tilting mast which will tilt the Ufting mechanism rearward from the vertical Uftog position and further counterbalance the load during movement. The load is positioned fuUy in front of the truck so that the truck structure does not interfere with adjacent stacks of material.This minimizes the aisle widths that are required. 

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