{"id":651,"date":"2010-09-03T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:19:17","slug":"materials-handling-products-how-did-that-come-about-part-1-pallet-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/materials-handling-products-how-did-that-come-about-part-1-pallet-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials Handling Products: How Pallet Jacks Came To Be."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishamon-Pallet-Jack4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-652\" title=\"Bishamon Pallet Jack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishamon-Pallet-Jack4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bishamon Pallet Jack\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishamon-Pallet-Jack4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishamon-Pallet-Jack4.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pallet Jacks changed the face of the industry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The invention of the pallet jack came about in the late 1800&#8217;s. With the increasing needs of the manufacturing industry to transfer bulk product and materials with better efficiency was in high demand. With such high demand someone had to find a way to come up with a solution for the problem. The device they implemented was much smaller than what we now know as pallet trucks or <a title=\"Pallet Jacks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/Pallet-Jacks-50689.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pallet jacks<\/a>. It&#8217;s usage was critical and although it became very useful for transporting materials to and from the production line the device still lacked in efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the device was refined. With this invention one individual was able maneuver a loaded pallet of material or product in and around tight quarters to it&#8217;s destination. The ease of use allowed more product to be transferred in a less time and with less labor involved. The savings of labor crossed with the increase of production changed the face of the manufacturing industry forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invention of the pallet jack came about in the late 1800&#8217;s. With the increasing needs of the manufacturing industry to transfer bulk product and materials with better efficiency was in high demand. With such high demand someone had to find a way to come up with a solution for the problem. The device they &#8230; <a title=\"Materials Handling Products: How Pallet Jacks Came To Be.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/materials-handling-products-how-did-that-come-about-part-1-pallet-jacks\/\" aria-label=\"More on Materials Handling Products: How Pallet Jacks Came To Be.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1079,34,31,189],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","tag-material-handling","tag-materials-handling","tag-pallet-jack","tag-pallet-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}