What kind of platform trolley is right for you?
Different dimensions of the cargo force us to come up with some or other ways of moving them, especially for massive objects that suggest the call of a crane. However, a conventional platform trolley, folding or welded, as well as a winch can work wonders. For example, how to transport a new grinder into the barn, quite heavy, delivered to the gate of your yard in a passing car and unloaded by your joint efforts, neighbor and driver?
Take the cart about the two wheels, lower it with the far edge of the platform to the ground, attach a winch under the handle, hook the machine to its cable, start, wait for the load to be pulled up onto the platform, turn off the winch and set the platform horizontally. Everything, you can take the object anywhere, and from the cable you can not detach, let there be some insurance. Even better, if you have a platform trolley with a lifting platform, if you have one, you generally will not know when to do business.
Platform truck - what options are there?
Let's determine for what needs the trolley you might need. In construction and repair work it is the transportation of bags and cans with paint, but, as a rule, at one time more than one bag and a couple of containers of water-emulsion paint, it's hard to spend, so you will have enough and a small two-wheel platform for 250 kilos.
If you are the owner of a large farm, and you need to store hay with haystacks, and you need to export fruits from the garden in almost tons, you need a large platform truck with 3-4 wheels covered with porous rubber, designed for 1000 kilograms. For trolleys, inflatable wheels are not the best option, they have the ability to lower the air at the most inopportune moment.
When it comes to a large warehouse, whether it is in farming or shopping, invaluable will be the help of a hydraulic lift, better self-propelled, ideally with a platform for a standing driver.
This type of platform trolley, which features a considerable margin of safety, can have an electric motor or an internal combustion engine on diesel or gas fuel. The first option is especially valuable for working inside the warehouse, the second - only in the open air, because of the exhausts, the third is completely acceptable in all conditions and is considered environmentally friendly.
Handmade trolleys - all for your convenience
Sometimes it's hard to foresee what you have to transport - compact bags, a bundle of firewood or a whole log. In the first two cases, the load will not disturb you at all, the third option will mean some inconvenience if the handles of the cart are perpendicular to the platform, that is, vertical, and the log laid along, strongly protrudes back and makes you stumble.
You will experience relative convenience when working with the cart only if the handle is positioned at an angle of 45 degrees to the platform. Even better, if a rod is used as the handle, freely changing the position from vertical to horizontal and back, this design allows you to pull and push hand trucks as needed.
With regard to the convenience of the means of moving loads, it is the variety of options that makes it difficult to choose. For example, the same cylinders must be transported in one position, preferably almost vertical, but the specialized cart is not suitable for other types of cargo, except that the bag can be transported in the same way, and then one.
And if you need to transport a potato crop, seedlings for flowers or plaster solution in a vat? That's why there are platform reinforced trolleys with the function of the transformer. They can fold, change the horizontal position to semi-vertical and strictly vertical, and are suitable for any purpose.