The Space-O-Mat forklift with the spacing forks are used for spacing the pots from pot tight to far away from one another. For spacing, the pots are placed in a staggered pattern in the fork. When spacing, the chains of the fork will run forward during driving backwards with the Space-O-Mat. Because of the staggered pattern, the pots will be placed on the floor in a staggered pattern as well, but with some space between the pots in a row because the speed of the chain differs from the speed of driving. In this way pots are spaced both in length as in width direction. Note that when spacing at a little distance in the row the spacing in length and width direction is not the same, this is also happening when spacing at a very big distance.