Provides basic tests to ensure that a lift truck demonstrates satisfactory stability when appropriately used under normal working conditions. This Standard is technically equivalent with and has been reproduced from ISO 1074:1991.

This International Standard specifies basic tests to verify the stability of counterbalanced fork-lift trucks. It applies to counterbalanced fork-lift trucks with tiltable or non-tiltable masts, whether rider-controlled or with a separate operator, of rated capacity up to and including 50 000 kg (110 000 lb). It also applies to trucks operating under the same conditions when equipped with load-handling attachments. This International Standard does not apply to trucks with retractable devices such as a mast or fork, or when handling suspended loads which may swing freely.NOTE - Additional tests for industrial trucks operating in special conditions of stacking with pre-determined offset will form the subject of a separate International Standard.

First published as part of AS B270-1968.Revised and redesignated AS 2359.1-1980.Second edition 1985.Revised and redesignated in part as AS 2359.3-1995. First published as part of AS B270-1968. Revised and redesignated AS 2359.1-1980. Second edition 1985. Revised and redesignated in part as AS 2359.3-1995.