Abstract: A tool and method for permitting materials handling trucks of the type having standard forks on the front thereof to lift and handle loads of stacked boxes, sacks or other articles supported at their bottom only by flexible slipsheet pallets. The tool comprises an elongate frame having a pair of forwardly projecting, laterally spaced horizontal plates at the bottom thereof, such plates being ground to a sharply tapered edge at their leading edges. A respective handle is located adjacent each end of the elongate frame for use by a workman in manipulating the tool into a position such that the leading edges of the plates are at least partially inserted beneath an edge of a load-bearing slipsheet pallet while the slipsheet and load are at rest on the floor. The tool has a vertical rear surface for engaging the tips of a pair of standard lift truck forks so that the forks can be used to forcibly push the plates fully beneath the loaded slip sheet so as to be sandwiched between the slipsheet and the floor.