Patent ID: 8151607

Claim:
A method of quarantining pallets, said pallets defining one or more pallet tunnels for receiving the tines of a forklift, the method comprising: providing a pallet arrestor which is shaped and configured, in use, to locate in one of the tunnels of the pallet wherein the pallet arrestor includes a first portion which is configured to slot into a pallet tunnel and a second, or front, portion whose size and/or configuration prevents its entry into the pallet tunnel, which pallet arrestor also defines a latch which in one (retracted) position allows the pallet arrester to be inserted and removed from the pallet tunnel and which in a second (locked) position prevents or inhibits the removal of the pallet arrestor from the pallet tunnel; inserting the pallet arrestor into a tunnel of the pallet to prevent ingress of a forklift tine into that tunnel; and securing the pallet arrestor in the pallet tunnel by movement of the latch to the locked position.