Insights, Tips & Know-How

Capacity is only one part of a large-vehicle turntable brief. What a 30 t, 16 m specification must say about deck, drive and foundation.

A delivery and installation handover checklist for a cargo lift: packing, drawing, spare parts, dimensions and commissioning checks.

Landing gates and platform guardrails protect different parts of a shaft-free cargo lift. How the two layers and the interlock work together.

A 300 mm pit gives flush loading; a pitless lift with a ramp leaves the floor intact. How to decide at the lower landing.

Six measurements and one photograph: the list that lets a cargo lift be quoted against a real mezzanine instead of a guess.

No pack, no charger and no charging routine: how a mains powered scissor lift supplies its pump, what it gains and what the cable costs you.

Two ways to turn a car turntable, and the weight at which one gives way to the other: pin gear with a reducer, or a large slewing bearing.

What a cargo lift is, how the three structures work, the standard CL5-2.5 specification in numbers, and what a building has to provide.

Flush loading or a ramp on the floor: how the pit decision fixes the height, the layout and the building work for a stationary scissor lift table.