Lumber and Wood


 Sideloaders for All Types of Lumber Operations

Industrial Trucks for Handling Wood, Inside and Out


Reliability and quality are the decisive factors for sideloader transportation equipment used in the timber industry. These vehicles tend to operate in harsh working conditions where dependability counts.

Design Storage supplies industrial trucks to timber wholesalers, sawmills, wood-processing companies, kitchen manufacturers, prefabricated house manufacturers and many other companies all over North America. The loads to be transported comprise chipboard, plywood, timber roof trusses, construction and finished timber along with kitchen worktops, doors etc.

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Outdoor Lumber Operations

Whether handling rough sawn timber, dimensional lumber, laminated beams or fabricated trusses on less than ideal ground conditions, Design Storage and Cavaion Baumann sideloaders bring true value added solutions to the lumber industry.


Baumann HX40-with-Tresses outdoors
Hubtex DQX carrying a bundle of lumber
Baumann GS 150 out door lifting a large load of lumber
Baumann GX 60 carrying a load of lumber on a road
Baumann GX 50 traveling with a very large load of finished lumber
Baumann HX 40 lifting large load of lumber in narrow aisle outdoor
Baumann GX 60 carrying double load of lumber out doors
Baumann GX 60 about to place a double load of lumber in aisle
Baumann DS 40 with large load of 8X8 lumber
Baumann GS 150 lifting heavy load of lumber outdoors
Baumann GS 50 lifting lumber to place on stack

Indoor/Outdoor Lumber Operations

Design Storage specializes in maximizing storage spaces for long loads by using the right sideloader and rack combination. Lumber storage racks can be custom designed to fit your new facility or redesigned to fit into your existing one.


Hubtex MQ 100 Electric Multidirectional Sideloader carrying lumber
Hubtex 2125 Electric Multidirectional Sideloader placing lumber on a cantilever rack outdoors
Baumann EX 40 electric trucks with loads outdoors

Engineered Wood

Design Storage and Hubtex have created a variety of products designed to aid in the storage and retrieval of engineered wood. With vacuum attachments, order pickers and multidirectional sideloaders, users can easily transport plywood, fiberboard, laminated veneer lumber, oriented strand board, etc.


Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader hq_EZK
Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader order picker
Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader order picker
Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader order picker with engineered lumber
HUBTEX MQ 70 2131 placing engineered lumber on to cantilever rack
Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader carrying engineered lumber in narrow aisle
HUBTEX M150 – Multidirectional Sideloader placing engineered lumber on to cantilever rack
Hubtex Electric Multidirectional Sideloader order picker picking lumber from cantilever rack

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