SAS FORKS™ Quality is unmatched. Period.

Since 1977 SAS has been engineering forks tough to last and do the job you need! Don't be fooled by imitations.  Don't waste your hard earned money on an inferior set of forks The pictures show it all...

Cracking due to failure to accommodate exponential stress level:

These photos came from a yard who had their forks less than 1 year.  From the close-up photo below, you can clearly see stress crack.  This is because the forks were not engineered they are simply welded hollow tubes, without regard for the stress loads or consideration for the characteristics of the metal.  Thus resulting in a short useful life and a safety hazard.

SAS FORKS™ successfully accommodate exponential stress level:

The photo above of the proprietary design of SAS FORKS clearly show how we have increased the strength of our fork in accordance with the stress level, to provide a superior fork that is built tough.

Tubular blade failure due to bending from blades being unfit:

These photos came from another a yard operator who is no longer able to use their, forks because they are bent so badly they can't slide them under the cars. Including, with one blade hitting the ground first, as shown in the picture below, the blades will unnecessarily dig up your lot surface.  An obvious safety hazard, being that these forks may fail at any time, but also actually dramatically slowing down the ability to move cars, taking longer time, while trying to get use out of these forks costs lost production and wage dollars wasted. These forks may have been cheaper than SAS FORKS but quickly have proved to be a poor investment.

SAS FORKS™ special alloy solid steel blades are durable:

The photo above of the proprietary design of SAS FORKS clearly show our unique SAS FORKS blade that are thicker than they are wide, providing substantially more strength to hold the load. Also the unique design of SAS FORKS allows the blade to be changed on-site in about 1 hour if, for any reason your blade should be damaged.

Poorly designed carriage and fork attachment plates:

SAS FORKS have a proprietary carriage design which is the trade mark / trade dress of SAS FORKS.  This not only provides a unique look and style of the SA FORKS, but it also provides a simple, durable function. 

Tubular blades crack causing down time, costly repairs, & hazards:

Tubular blades collapsing causing safety hazard & short useful life:

As shown in the above photo, as tubular blades begin to wear, they lose their strength and will collapse.  This is extremely dangerous and may happen without warning.

15' SAS FORKS come with replaceable skid plates on the bottom side of the blades and carriage strength to hold the load. Also the unqiue design of SAS FORKS allows the blade to be changed on-site in about 1 hour if, for any reason your blade should be damaged.

Below are photos we received showing broken forks in a fork carriage that have been broken and welded several times.  This salvage yard was very dissatisfied with this manufacturer and called SAS for new forks.  This manufacture failed to account for stresses and multiple stress dynamics found in harsh auto salvage environments.  This unit is simply made of two common bucket tines (light duty pallet forks) welded to two square hollow tubes. Gussets were added at some point due to continuous cracking. Very inexpensive materials, not made for this use resulted in failure and exposing the operator to injury.  Also the facility owner to unnecessary OSHA and other LIABILITY.

SAS Forks, shown below, are ENGINEERED at SAS FORKS with 3-D Stress Analysis software by a Degreed Mechanical Engineer to properly provide PROPRIETARY SAS FORKS DESIGN to provide the most durable design in the market place.

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