How to Palletize Lamps for Shipping

Fluorescent lamps are like ice cream cones, they break in transit. Therefore it is important that all precautions are taken to minimize breakage and safely contain the mercury powder inside fluorescent lamps as much as possible.
Therefore, knowing how to ship a pallet properly will help ensure lamps are acceptable for pickup and delivered with as little breakage as possible. Here’s an easy step-by-step guide on how to prepare a pallet of lamps for shipping.

FINAL STEP

Once all pallets are prepared for shipping, please text photos of each pallet to 845-401-3899 with information as to which project the pallets are from. I’ll get back to you with any observed problems I see. Hopefully this will mitigate any issues with preparations and make extraction go as smoothly as possible.

THE GOOD … AND THE UGLY

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Find a good quality pallet. No broken boards and corner blocks are all intact
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This is well wrapped pallet. Shrink wrap secures the boxes to the pallet and no boxes are overhanging the edges of the pallet.
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This is an incorrectly loaded pallet. Boxes are not positioned for weight distribution and no shrink wrap.
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This is an incorrectly loaded pallet. Boxes are overhanging the pallet sides. As forklifts will be handling this pallet, it may crush the boxes on the exposed side. Boxes are not secured with shrink wrap to the pallet.

Here’s a short tutorial on how to prepare a pallet.