Abstract: The load-lifting mechanism at the front of a lift truck carries a vertical boom with a forwardly cantilevered boom portion rotatably mounting a vertical pivot shaft at its forward end. The shaft suspends a rotatable carriage frame beneath the cantilevered boom portion. A larger pickup carriage frame with downwardly extending pickup arms is suspended by chains from the rotatable carriage frame. The upper ends of one pair of pickup arms are pivoted for limited movement transversely of the longitudinal axis of the carriage frames and for upwardly swinging movement to positions alongside the carriage frames. Fluid cylinders on the rotatable frame adjust the pickup frame for side shifting, end shifting, transverse sloping and longitudinal sloping movement.