For businesses running industrial sites such as factories, plants or even warehouses, there needs to be proper consideration given to lifting equipment (such as toe jack or hoisting gear) that is kept on site. There are a number of reasons why this is the case – including to shift large parts, vehicles, machinery or equipment from one location to another, or as a safety precaution if heavy…
Six Situations Where Machine Skates Are Helpful
Heavy lifting equipment, such as the likes of machine skates, is not just important to many businesses across a variety of industries; it can be absolutely vital. In this blog, we’re going to cover a variety of situations where the usage of such skates would be beneficial to businesses. Our first situation where heavy duty machine moving skates can be helpful is in the food industry….
When To Purchase Moving Skates
Moving skates are the ideal solution to moving and positioning heavy loads, such as equipment or machinery, within the work area. While some features wheels or castors, others may be fitted with roller tracks. Some machine skates are designed to be pulled or pushed when in place; and many can be hooked up to a fork lift truck or similar to be manoeuvred with even greater…
Lifting Equipment And Legislation
This time, we take a brief look at the legislation that governs lifting equipment. We will cover who it applies to, what kinds of equipment are subject to the regulations and what you need to consider when using it. For starters, let’s look at a brief definition of what lifting equipment is. In broad terms, lifting equipment is used to describe any equipment that is used in…
Hydraulic Jacks for every purpose
No matter what sector you work in hydraulic jacks (also known as hydraulic toe jacks ) will always be handy pieces of kit. we sell hydraulic jacks ranging from 3 ton to 50 ton , all with a five year warranty and always in stock.
220 Ton Machine Skate System
Our 220 ton universal skate systems have been designed for the machine moving industry with machine moving skates starting at 6 ton all the way to 220 ton. Machine skates are normally used as a 3 point system for safer use. our machine skates and hydraulic jacks and hydraulic toe jacks can all be zinc plated if necessary.
Ratchet straps
Good news aside from Our Machine skates, Hydraulic jacks Mini cranes and Hoist rings. we can now supply UK Made webbing and round lifting slings, we also offer our bespoke custom made webbing and round lifting slings. Which can be manufactured to your design within 36 hours from approval, all our webbing and lifting slings are manufactured with a safety factor of 7:1. we are…
Hydraulic Jacks / Machine Skates
HTS-DIRECT Are very pleased to have launched our ISO Container moving skates, from 12 tons to 32 tons. they come Standard with ISO-Container cones. so these ISO Container moving skates will fit any unit. Hydraulic Toe Jacks are a type of universal lifting application, and are commonly found in most machine movers tool box. the compact size of these hydraulic jacks make them easy to…
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