Cash For Forklift / Electric forklift removal
Electric forklifts
Electric forklifts usually die from the battery, not the truck. When the replacement quote comes in, a lot of owners decide the forklift isn’t worth it. We buy electric forklifts with dead, weak or damaged batteries and take them away at no charge.
Tell us what the forklift is and where it’s sitting. We’ll get back to you with a price and a pickup time.
Rather talk? Call 604-670-7288, 8am to 8pm, 7 days.
The lead-acid battery in an electric forklift is one of its most expensive parts. After years of daily charging it stops holding a charge, and a new one often costs thousands of dollars. On an older truck, that bill can be more than the forklift is worth with a fresh battery in it.
That’s the point where most owners call us. The truck still has value, the old battery still has value, and nobody has to spend money on a repair that doesn’t pay back.
A forklift battery can weigh from several hundred pounds to well over a tonne, and on a counterbalance truck it’s part of the counterweight. Pulling it out is a job in itself and makes the truck harder to move safely.
It also helps your price. Lead is worth recovering, so an electric forklift that still has its battery is worth more than one without. Please don’t drain it, tip it or try to lift it out for us.
A dead electric forklift won’t drive itself out, and on many models the brakes stay on when there’s no power. Let us know how far it is from the door, whether there’s a dock or a ramp, and if you have a working forklift on site that can help move it.
If the charger is going too, mention it when you send the details.
One of our recent pickups was a dead-battery electric Toyota from Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. If yours runs on propane or diesel instead, the same scrap forklift removal applies, and you can read how forklifts get recycled.
Yes. Most electric forklifts we buy have a battery that no longer holds a charge. The truck and the battery both still have value.
No. Leave it in. It is very heavy, it is part of the counterweight, and it adds to what we pay you.
Usually, yes. Even with a battery that has gone completely flat, the steel, the cast iron and the lead are all recyclable.
It goes for lead-acid battery recycling, where the lead and the plastic case are recovered and reused.
Yes. Tell us about the doors, docks and ramps between the forklift and the parking area, and whether there is a working forklift on site.
Tell us what it is and where it is. Free pickup, paid when it’s loaded.
