jonabonospen
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 01:49 PM |
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How to overcome a loading dock bay???
Just looking at moving business premises and am wanting a unit where I can pull a car / van inside. Well I found a unit with great potential, but
behind the roller shutter door there is an artic truck style loading dock (imagine a massive 5ft or so high concrete step up from floor level outside
to warehouse floor level inside). Previous tenant was some kind of race car team or something and I guess for them it was ideal as they could pull the
truck up to the loading dock and just drive the cars straight out and in to the unit. I also want to be able to bring motorbikes in and out, and
pallets too.
So what I am wondering is what the best way is to overcome this??
Installing a ramp is not really practical because there isnt really enough length to get a ramp in with a suitable incline, plus would be difficult to
get pallets dragged up it.
I did think of installing a 4 poster mechanics type lift and getting a fabricator to make me some kind of adaptation to fill the middle of the lift in
so that bikes and pallets could also be safely put on it to lift. Then I could drive the car on at one end, raise the lift, then have some plates to
drive the car off the other end when up at warehouse floor level.
Any body got any other suggestions? Anybody know of a car sized scissor lift type thing you can buy?
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coozer
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 02:23 PM |
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Only thing I've ever seen on a dock in an RDC is a ramp, big steel thing about 25 feet long.
Some level docks, thinking Asda store here, have a sissor lift but they don't have a very high load capacity.
The one in the Tescos at Livingstone is up to the job for getting into double deck trailers but is huge! And, probably very very expensive!!
Some trailers have a full height tail lift. They work off hydraulics, self contained. Maybe install one of them on the dock? You should be able to
pick one of them up easily. Again load cap is low but may be just enough for a static application with light cars.
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1980 Z750
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coozer
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 02:31 PM |
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This kinda thing?
1972 V8 Jago
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 02:46 PM |
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how about
http://sm-t.co.uk/product/the-donnington-2-post-parking-lift/
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John P
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 03:02 PM |
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I used to run a company which made scissor lifts for this application but they are quite expensive and you need a shallow pit so the scissor mechanism
can fit below the platform when it's down at ground level.
The firm I ran is no longer in existence but a few of the old employees now run their own company so it may be worth asking their advice. They may
even be able to source a used scissor lift and fit it for you but it probably still won't be that cheap.
Their web site is at http://www.britannialift.co.uk if you want to give it a try.
John.
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MikeR
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| posted on 3/10/15 at 07:19 PM |
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Not quite what you want but ..... You can get a metal frame ramp thing that pivots so you drive your car on, get to a certain point and it pivots so
it's level. You could make your own. Not perfect but could be a cheaper alternative.
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will121
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| posted on 4/10/15 at 05:52 AM |
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May be a lot of work but an option
http://www.mokshaindustries.com/mobile-dock-leveller.html
[Edited on 4/10/15 by will121]
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wombat
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| posted on 4/10/15 at 07:13 AM |
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You can rent loading dock ramps, try Thorworld
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 4/10/15 at 09:45 AM |
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Can you not remove it if you don't have a use for it?
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jonabonospen
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| posted on 4/10/15 at 12:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
Can you not remove it if you don't have a use for it?
It isnt something that can be "taken out". The internal floor level is about 4 or 5 foot higher than the external level. This external
level creeps in to the building for about 5 or 6m say, then there is a 4 or 5 ft vertical concrete step where a wagon would previously have just
reversed up to. But we dont have a wagon for this use. We would just bring a car or bike in to this load area and then be met by a 5ft solid concrete
step up to the internal floor level.
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 4/10/15 at 02:05 PM |
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In reality theres only two things you can do - ramp or lift. 'Pick one!
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