Abstract: A large cylindrical body such as a paper roll carried on a pallet is transferred to a transfer conveyor by placing the pallet on a platform carried on a platform support recessed in the floor movable to a lowered position in which the top surface of the pallet is level with the floor. A roll pusher with two rollers on a pusher head is moved out of an under floor receptacle across the top surface of the pallet so that the cylindrical body rolls off the pallet to a locating system at the transfer conveyor on one side of the platform. A pallet pusher abutment is moved across the platform in a slot to push the pallet along an edge guide at right angles to the rolling direction off the platform on to the floor.