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Example of surface hoisting material equipment

1, TRACTORS

Tractor is a vehicle, having its own source of motive power, used as aprime mover to haul i.e. to give motion to another or a group of othervehicles which do not have their own motive power, such as trailers,semitrailers, transfer cars etc.1.1The industrial tractors are generally grouped into(i wheel type which are primarily used formovement of one or more trailers for interplant or intraplant transportation,and(ii crawler type whichare mostly used in outdoor and storage yard service at slow speeds and forshort hauls.

Typical farm tractor Crawler tractor

!ulldo"er

#A$% TR&C'S

#and trucs, as the name implies, have no source of motive power,

these are generally moved manually or are attached to other powered

moving e)uipment*units. #and trucs are classi+ed into three su! groups

(i -heel hand truc, These are generally used for moving unit or uniti"ed

loads lie !ags, !arrels, !o/es, cartons, !ales, cylinders etc. !y pushing the

truc manually.

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(ii multiple-wheel hand truc, These trucs generally consists of a platform

or framewor mounted on 0 or or more num!er of wheels. The truc is

generally provided with a handle for pushing or pulling the platform. Certain

trucs are provided with no handle or detacha!le handle.

example of over head material handling equipments

FORK LIFT TRUCK

Amongst the powered industrial vehicle*truc family, most versatile,useful and widely used e)uipment is industrial lift trucs, popularly calledforlift trucs (23T in short. These are self loading, counter!alanced,

powered, wheeled vehicles, with the operator seating on the vehicle,designed to raise, move and lower load on fors or other attachmentsfastened to a mast which is +/ed in front of the vehicle to allow lifting andstacing of loads.

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!and Lift Truc"s

These hand trucs are provided with a mechanism of lifting its platform, which can!e rolled under a pallet or sid, and raised to lift the pallet or sid with load to clear theground and then move this load from one place to another. %epending on the liftingmechanism, these are grouped into hydraulic or mechanical type. #and lift trucs arewidely used in small to medium si"ed manufacturing industries using pallets, sidsand*or containers.

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low-lift high-lift

mechanical type hydraulic type