The Additions and Upgrades Your Business’s Material Handling Equipment Needs

Posted by Magliner on February 5th, 2021

High-quality material handling tools are vital for efficiency and safety. The right vendor will also provide a catalogue that prioritizes modularity and repairs with replacement parts and upgrades. Upgrading your material handling tools can make them more useful in a wider variety of situations. Whether you’re purchasing a fleet of traditional hand trucks or adding a motorized hand truck line, here are a few of the upgrades you should look for to get the most out of your fleet.

Stabilizing Fourth Wheel Attachments

As invaluable a tool as the traditional hand truck is, sometimes heavier jobs call for a more heavily built appliance hand truck. In addition to the heavier construction, appliance hand trucks are generally equipped with a strap to secure bulkier, larger, and heavier loads. For greater control or for navigating more challenging terrain, however, consider the addition of a stabilizing fourth wheel attachment. It’s an addition that can make the work of anyone who moves appliances, furniture, or anything that’s particularly heavy, much safer and easier.

Wheels for Challenging Terrain

Navigating challenging terrain can increase the risks associated with material handling and could result in damaged items. Whether that means uneven terrain, rocky terrain, snow and ice, or any other obstacle, terrain issues can often be mitigated by choosing the right wheels for equipment. Always source material handling equipment through a vendor that allows for customization of their equipment that includes a variety of wheel options.

Upgrading to Powered Hand Trucks

Sometimes the best solution for a material handling task requires upgrading to a powered hand truck. For example, a traditional hand truck can be outfitted with a manual stair climbing attachment to aid with moving of more modest loads up and down stairways. However, when a job function requires the transportation of heavier, valuable and fragile, or volatile loads up or down stairs, a powered stair climbing dolly can be exactly what’s called for.

Employing Convertible Hand Trucks

Fifty years ago this year, the material handling industry leader Magline introduced their Gemini convertible hand truck. The Gemini became the template for virtually every convertible or collapsible hand truck since. Traditional hand trucks are solely employed in a vertical orientation to move anything that can safely fit and be transported on its platform. However, a convertible hand track can also be used in a horizontal configuration. That innovation allows for considerably more platform space for moving, resulting in a considerably more versatile material handling option. If your business involves moving loads of a variety of configurations, add convertible hand trucks to your material handling fleet.

About Magline

For over 70 years now, the name “Magliner” has stood for the highest standard of quality for material handling equipment. The Magliner name still stands for equipment that is trusted for reliability and ease-of-use across a great many industries. In fact, within the material handling space, the name Magliner is often used as shorthand for a hand truck, regardless of its brand. Unfortunately for any other brands, there remains only one Magliner when it comes to durability, dependability, and ease of use. Along with their legendary classic hand trucks, Magline also carries powered stair climbing hand trucks, a motorized hand truck line, a hand lift truck series, fully customizable hand trucks, and much more. Whenever you need something moved, delivered, or lifted, you can always trust Magliner equipment to get the job done.

Choose the highest level of material handling quality available by choosing Magliner gear, at https://www.magliner.com/

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