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A maintenance crew in a mid-sized factory has to remove a 1.2 ton hydraulic pump from its base plate and place it on a service cart three meters away. A chain hoist lifts the pump, but the hoist hangs from one fixed overhead point, so the load can only rise and fall. The missing piece is a trolley:...
A maintenance technician grips the rim of a full 55-gallon drum and rocks it sideways. The drum tips, rolls a short distance, and stops. The technician repeats the motion to cross the workshop, loading the lower back with dangerous force each time. A drum dolly changes the picture completely. It al...
A workshop crew I visited last spring had a perfectly good one ton chain hoist hanging from a fixed point on the runway, and they rolled every load ten meters by hand before the hook could reach it. The problem was not the hoist. The missing piece was a chain hoist trolley, the wheeled carriage tha...