
A 200 litre steel drum of resin weighs around 230 kg. A hand truck moves it along a flat aisle, but nothing about that trip gets the drum onto a 900 mm rack, tips it over a mixer mouth, or holds it steady while a pump is lowered in. Most drum handling problems appear at exactly that point, and so d...
A crane winch is often treated as a simple drum on a frame, but the numbers that decide whether it works are rarely the ones printed largest on the label. Rated pull, drum capacity and brake design determine whether the unit keeps a steady pull at full rope extension or starts to struggle once the ...
A 2 t electric chain hoist quoted at one price and a second 2 t unit quoted at nearly double is rarely a pricing mistake. The gap usually sits in the duty class, the number of chain falls, whether a trolley is included, and how much headroom the hook needs at full lift. A crane structure can often ...