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Flatbed Trolleys and Carts
Flatbed Trolleys and Carts, with a choice of Mild steel, galvanised mild steel, and stainless steels, our flatbed trolleys and carts also offer choices of base material; standard plywood, Teflon coated phenolic boards, aluminium chequered plate, and sheet steels, mild, galvanised, or stainless also. Our meticulous attention to the small detail when designing flatbed trolleys and carts, coupled with our Health and Safety background and insistence that our products should make health and safety and handling more productive, and should be a driver to increasing productivity rather than it being an obstruction to productivity.
Flatbed Trolley FAQs
What do I need to consider when buying a flatbed trolley?
Various aspects of the load you are transporting should be considered like its size, weight, type, and shape.
Features of the flatbed trolley should also be considered including its maximum weight capacity, daily usage, and the ground conditions that it will be navigating.
Remember also to think about your personal ability to move and control the load.
What is the maximum weight allowed on a flatbed trolley?
Most standard flatbed trolleys can reach a size of 2000mm x 1000mm and beyond, and mounting them on heavy-duty castors like Aluminium Center Castors with
Polyurethane Tyre tyres can raise the trolley’s capacity to 2500kg and 3000kg.
What can flatbed trolleys be used for?
Not only can flatbed trolleys be used for transporting a variety of different items and heavy loads, but they can also be used for stacking larger quantities of small items.
Flatbed Trolleys and Carts FAQ
A flatbed trolley is a simple piece of equipment with wheels on the underside, and a handle for pushing and pulling, simple, however this is confused by the many names its attracted over the year, carts, dolly, platform truck or trolley but they all equate to the same thing, this could be as simple as a sheet of board with wheels in the corners, and a string to pull, not that we recommend this form obviously. Mainly used in retail, wholesale, warehouse, and manufacturing environments for moving bulk loads safely and efficiently.
Depending on your environment a flatbed trolley can be manufactured to suit, for instance in food environment or where the environment is heavily corrosive such as fish market or tanneries marine grade 316 stainless steel will stop the effects of the corrosion on the chassis and wheel brackets. Again stainless steel can be used in spark proof environments and cleanrooms when mounting the flatbed trolley on antistatic wheels and castors, they are a very flexible piece of equipment that can be adapted to suit any application.
Primarily the flatbed trolley will reduce handling and therefore increase safety. Moreover, they are also great for efficiency gains, meaning that you can move more product in one load than moving by hand, or by using a sack barrow, reducing costs.
There are so many factors environmentally that need to be considered, the best starting point would be to risk assess the environment first, are there slopes, hills, and cambers, what are the ground conditions, what is in the atmosphere, ie dry damp, corrosive hot cold, all these factors will affect the choice and specification. What is the load, and even down to the physical abilities of the operator. The easiest and most trusted method would be to enlist the help of the professional who should be good enough to ask the correct questions to ensure seamless operation in use.
As with all new equipment in your work place, a risk assessment should be issued prior to use, to understand the risks involved within your specific environment this is imperative to answer the question, but as a general rule. Make sure the operator is trained and wearing the appropriate PPE, Make sure that the operator is fit and capable of carrying out the intended task, Make sure the flatbed trolley is in a serviceable condition and adequately maintained, Make sure that the flatbed trolley is capable of carrying the intended load, the trolley should be marked with a safe working load to guide you. If not, you must contact the supplier for this information, the supplier is under legal obligation to make sure that the trolley is marked with the capacity. Make sure that the load is stable and secure, this can be done with straps in the load is not a stable load. Proceed with caution. These are just the simple basic, and a full assessment should be carried out, for a risk assessment guidance we have provided a document that can be used to highlight some of the basics.
Yes flatbed trolleys can be made to any size, however the bigger the platform the more can be loaded, the higher the capacity may need to be to be suitable for the load. Also the larger the base, the more the configuration of the wheels will need to be considered so that the manoeuvrability of the flatbed trolley is suitable, castor configuration guidance is available that can help you make that choice. Moreover if the trolley base is extreme in length, then 6 wheeled configuration can be considered again bearing in mind the manoeuvrability of the flatbed trolley.
Flatbed trolleys can be utilised everywhere from the home where relieving the need to lift things around the home is not just helpful but will lessen the chances of muscular strains, trips and falls, particularly as we all get older, through retail environments, wholesale manufacturing and even in the service sector, where ever loads are moved frequently. If the load is heavy, the simple and humble flatbed trolley is a simple life saver that increases productivity, and safety all in one.