Inchpedal

The inching pedal a separation of the drive mechanism of handling and lifting drives is reached with hydrostatic drives. This to-use with the left foot pedal ensures that slow shunting (eg forklifts or loaders ) are possible with high loading force.

Background

For machines with hydrostatic drive hydraulic system supplies the entire on-board hydraulics. Therefore the performance is dependent on the speed of the drive motor. In order to operate the different areas such as driving and lifting elements with different benefits, the inching pedal is depressed. Here, the oil flow is reduced to the hydraulic motor to the drive axle so that the vehicle speed decreases. The rest of the hydraulic system (eg lifting ) but will continue to be supplied with full hydraulic capacity.