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Portable Lifting Equipment

Portable Lifting Equipment

Portable lifting refers to any type of mobile lifting equipment that can be moved around the workplace or desired location. There are many different types of portable lifting equipment for various applications, and some may be manually operated while other types of more heavy purpose lifting equipment may be powered, either externally or internally.

Some of the types of portable equipment can include:

• Material handling trolley
• Drum trolley
• Industrial wheelbarrow
• Platform truck
• Electrically powered platform truck

Electric platform trucks are also called utility vehicles, electric trolley carts or powered platform truck vehicles, and these types of platform trucks can handle a very heavy load compared to the non-powered type.

Platform trucks are generally considered to be trucks that are pushed or pulled by hand, although electric powered platform trucks are widely available too.

A hand platform truck will typically be a single platform mounted on four wheels, and two or more of these wheels will be of the swivelling type to allow for steering of the truck.

At one end of the platform truck a handle for pushing or pulling, and is usually around waist height.

There are a huge verity of platform trucks available for different applications. The trucks can be single or multi-platformed depending on use, and some of these use can include, supermarkets, DIY stores, builder's yards and furniture stores.

Other types of portable lifting equipment will include hydraulic lifting equipment such as portable hydraulic jacks and floor cranes. This type of lifting equipment can include:

• Fork lift jack
• Fork truck jack
• Table lift jack
• Service jack
• Transmission jack

Load moving skates are very popular for moving crates and palleted goods and can handle very heavy loads.

Some of these portable skates can handle up to 100 tonnes and can be stripped down to component parts for easy transportation.

Cylinder trolleys are specially designed to carry only cylinders and the various designs allow for carrying different sizes and types of cylinders.

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