Moving Machinery Into Shipping Containers
Advantages of Using Machinery Sliders™ for Loading Shipping Containers Direct answer: Why use machinery moving sliders for loading cargo containers instead of traditional rigger skates? A standard shipping container’s door header is several inches shorter than its internal height, meaning tall equipment on 3″ to 6″ wheeled skates will strike the frame. Ultra low profile skates […]
Machinery Moving in Clean Rooms
Machinery Moving in Clean Rooms Direct answer: Machinery Sliders™ are a solid engineered resin with no wheels, bearings, grease, hydraulics, or compressed air — nothing to drip, shed, or disturb a clean room’s controlled airflow — which is why they’ve been used in clean-room environments including pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and medical device facilities. They ride just […]
Moving Used Machinery Out After an Auction
Moving Used Machinery Out After an Auction Direct answer: Auction removal means moving a machine out of someone else’s building — usually a closing plant with cracked floors, tight rows, and a hard deadline — with no house rigging support. Machinery Sliders™ handle the damaged, dirty concrete these floors always have, slip into row gaps […]
Moving Machinery in Freight Elevators
Moving Machinery in Freight Elevators & to Upper Floors Direct Answer: How do you safely transport heavy machinery using a freight elevator? An elevator machinery move must simultaneously pass three strict limits: total rated capacity, car floor point-loading structural thresholds, and door header clearance height. Traditional 4″ to 6″ wheeled rigger skates often fail this checklist […]
Moving Machinery In & Out MRI Suites
Moving Machinery In & Out of MRI Suites Direct Answer: Can you use traditional industrial machine skates to move equipment into an MRI suite? Traditional steel rigger skates and dollies cannot enter active MRI suites because the intense, continuous magnetic field transforms ferromagnetic tools into dangerous airborne projectiles. Nonmetallic Machinery Sliders™ provide a safe alternative; constructed […]
Moving Machinery Trade Shows & Exhibit Halls
Moving Machinery at Trade Shows & Exhibit Halls Direct Answer: Can you move heavy machinery over trade show carpeting? Traditional wheeled machine moving skates plow and bog down on convention carpets, but nonmetallic Machinery Sliders™ slide over carpeted exhibition hall floors. Their wide footprint offers non-point loading that protects delicate venue surfaces and utility floor boxes, […]
Moving Machinery With a Forklift
Moving Machinery With a Forklift Direct Answer: Can you move a machine heavier than your forklift’s lift capacity? Yes, a forklift can easily move an industrial asset that far outweighs its rated lift capacity by pushing or pulling it on a 3 point machinery skate system or nonmetallic sliders rather than picking it up. Sliding a […]