forklift

Spanish translation: elevador de horquilla

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English term or phrase:	forklift
Spanish translation:	elevador de horquilla
Entered by:	Teresa Duran-Sanchez

15:04 Feb 21, 2002

English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Automotive / Cars & Trucks / trucking

English term or phrase: forklift

lifting pallets

susan wray

elevador de horquilla

Explanation:
It depends how specific you need to be. Normally carretilla elevadora or just elevadora should be enough, as suggested by my colleagues.

Subject - Agriculture - Food Industry - Livestock Industry - Fisheries - Bio-industry (=AG)
- Mechanical Engineering (sn: construction and machine parts)(=MG)

Definition a powered vehicle for handling stacked timber and other products in bulk,as e.g.in drying yards,having a pair of forward-projecting,horizontal arms that can be raised and lowered mechanically for insertion beneath the load

Note {GRM} n.p.
{NTE} the load is generally assembled on a pallet

TERM elevador de horquilla

Reference FAO,BULL.TERM.30/AR:MADERA CONTRACHAPADA

Selected response from:

Teresa Duran-Sanchez
Spain
Local time: 13:47

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Summary of answers provided

5 +7

elevador de horquilla

Teresa Duran-Sanchez

5 +3

autoelevador

Irene Cudich

4 +2

carretilla elevadora

Patricia Posadas

5 +1

Montacargas

Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)

carretilla o toro

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X)

Grúa Horquilla

Atacama

Montacarga

Francis Icaza

Montacargas de horquilla

Camara

carretilla elevadora

Bernardo Ortiz

Fenwich

MERod

Answers

3 mins confidence:

carretilla o toro

Explanation:
Suerte

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http://www.yale-europe.com/spanish/e_products/products.htm

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Esto pertenece al sitio mencionado arriba. Es de YALE...
\"Comenzamos por fabricar productos de calidad - de hecho, una de las líneas más amplias de la industria. Cualquiera que sea su especificación o aplicación, nosotros tenemos la carretilla capaz de satisfacer sus necesidades. Además, más del 90% de nuestros productos han evolucionado a través de nuestro agresivo programa de mejora de los productos. Por lo que su nueva carretilla elevadora Yale ha sido diseñada pensando en el rendimiento, la economía y la ergonomía\"

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Para tu información, es España se conoce como \'toro\' a la carretilla pequeña que generalmente se maneja sin necesida de conducirla (foto: http://www.yale-europe.com/spanish/e_products/pt_hp22.htm). Si se trata de la \'grandes\', usa el término \'carretilla\' o \'carretilla para pallets\' (foto: http://www.yale-europe.com/spanish/e_products/w4_agf.htm)
Mucha suerte.

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X)
Argentina
Local time: 09:47
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 24

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

carretilla elevadora

Explanation:
Eurodic.

Patricia Posadas
Spain
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 7

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

elevador de horquilla

Teresa Duran-Sanchez
Spain
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

autoelevador

Explanation:
así le decimos en la Argentina. No es una carretilla, puesto que es un vehículo a motor.

own experience

Irene Cudich
Local time: 09:47
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 7

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Montacargas

Explanation:
this term is extensively used in warehouses and harbors, in "real life".

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[PDF] FACE Forklift Span color
Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
... ESCAPE MORTAL PREVENCION DE FATALIDADES POR MONTACARGAS (FORKLIFT) H ace poco, 2
choferes murieron aplastados por el montacargas que manejaban. Los choferes ...
www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/ohb/OHSEP/FACE/liftSpan.pdf - Páginas similares

Forklift Trucks - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Usada. ... FORKLIFT TRUCKS / MONTACARGAS. LOT # |LOTE#.
MAKE MARCA. MODEL MODELO. CAPACITY CAPACIDAD. TYPE ...
www.bestused.com/forklift.htm - 49k - En caché - Páginas similares

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Rent a Forklift. ... Alquiler de Maquinaria CR, SA Guadalupe, San José Tel. (506) 225-1917
Fax (506) 284-0464. Alquiler de Montacargas Renta Equipos Int., SA La ...
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La Opinion
... de Empleo BODEGA ¡URGENTE! Personal Para Bodega 3 TURNOS --También montacargas
\"Forklift\' drivers\' ($7.50) Empacadoras Solicitar de lunes a jueves de 8:00 am ...
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Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
... pesticidas K Manejar, transportarse, o ayudar a operar un tractor o montacargas
(forklift) K Manejar cualquier vehículo que se usa para el transporte de ...
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efleetmgmt.com - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Safety Signs and Color Codes; Scaffold Safety; Seguridad para Tabajos con Montacargas
(Forklift Safety); Self-Motivation; Self-Problem Solving; Sexual Harassment ...
www.efleetmgmt.com/Education/e_learn_course_listings.htm - 84k - En caché - Páginas similares

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COn las anteriores referencias bilingües trato de dar más peso a la acepción propuesta

Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 06:47
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 50

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Henry Hinds: In Mexico... this is a term with many regional variations!

5 mins

-> Thanks, Henry

neutral

Teresa Duran-Sanchez: Ojo, un montacargas en España es un ascensor, y no se refiere a eso.

8 mins

-> Montacargas de pallets (paletas o tarimas)... no es un ascensor... es en el área de "trucking"

disagree

Silvina Beatriz Codina: En Argentina también es un ascensor (en una fábrica)

24 mins

-> gracias, Silvina... el debate redunda en mayor apoyo para quien pregunta

neutral

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X): Agree with cidcampead...en Ecuador sí corresponde a 'forklift' pero en AR y ES, no.

30 mins

-> todo depende de Susan y su contexto ahora

agree

Carlos Moreno

2 hrs

-> gracias, Carlos

agree

Escalona: En Cuba se conoce como montacargas al igual que aquí en Estados Unidos

7 hrs

disagree

Ed Murphy: I'm with Cidcampeador.

22 hrs

38 mins confidence:

Grúa Horquilla

Explanation:
That's the correct name for a forklift, but different countries tend to give local names. For example in Chile they are frequently known by one of the better known brand names 'Yale'.

Reference: http://www.arrimaq.cl/maq/indus.htm

Atacama
Australia
Local time: 22:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

59 mins confidence:

carretilla elevadora

Explanation:
not sure needs context

Bernardo Ortiz
Colombia
Local time: 07:47

2 hrs confidence:

Montacarga

Explanation:
Without disagreeing with mine colleagues around the world, I must say that the above, Montacarga, sometimes Montacargas is the single most frequently used expression I have heard for Forklift.

This is personal experience now, so bear with me a moment.

In conferences in 4 different countries, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and two international conferences in Miami I have heard and used this expression while interpreting for rommsful of engineers and the like.

On occasion I have asked participants at conferences for their version of Forlift into Spanish and I have heard thew following these that my colleagues have included here:

Grúa Horquilla, and Elevador horquilla.

But, by far, the most popular rendition I have heard is Montacargas.

You certainly have a host of choices from whence to pick.

BoBL

F.

Francis Icaza
United States
Local time: 08:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

2 hrs confidence:

Montacargas de horquilla

Explanation:
montacargas de brazos.

Del diccionario técnico de García Díaz (mexicano)

Camara
United States
Local time: 08:47
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

7 hrs confidence:

Fenwich

Explanation:
Los expertos (o sea los conductores de estos carros o carretillas) les llaman así.
También la denominan carretilla elevadora, coincido con Patricia Posadas.

MERod
Spain
Local time: 14:47
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Galician

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