“Both air-ride and leaf spring suspension styles, especially in vocational applications, are the muscle under the backbone of the truck,” he says. “They carry heavy loads and traverse rough terrain found at worksites. Thus it is critical, whether a spring or an air-ride suspension, to e...
For use indoors, a truck is sized to aisle width, weight at the ground and maximum lift height, overhead obstructions, and doorways. For use outdoors, the type of tire will depend on the potential of tire punctures. The size and type of load will dictate what type of forklift attachment...
In order for the lift truck to be stable (not tip-over forward or sideways), the Center of Gravity must stay within the area of the lift truck stability base—a triangle drawn between the front wheels and the pivot of the rear axle. This is sometimes referred to as the “stability tria...
Sliding tail lift under the back of a truck With these tail lifts, the platform is folded and sits underneath the rear of the truck. The truck has regular doors at the rear (either roller or hinged). Tuck-away tail lifts simply need to be lowered and unfolded, while sliding tail lifts...
These types of tow trucks have a flatbed with the help of which the vehicles can be lifted and locked. These are among the safest types of tow trucks for transporting cars and they are able to support the bulk load as well. Boom trucks ...
In the course of the past eight years, every one of China's 98.99 million rural residents living below the poverty line, has been lifted out of poverty. The country has met the poverty eradication target set out in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, t...
Every time I pull up alongside a lifted truck, I think of a Prius or Corolla-sized sedan being hit and how the lift allows the impact to be at life critical heights. Heck, even for my two vehicles (Avalon and Rav4). Yet the aftermarket sellers of parts to do the lift contribute to...
lifted Sikorsky into the air. The VS-300 featured a 75-horsepower Lycoming engine connected to a main rotor with three blades and a two-bladed tail rotor. It also provided mechanisms to control the machine's flight. Two inputs, known as the collective and cyclic-pitch sticks, enabled a ...
As it turned out, they'd be one-year-only jobs. Not so the new 348 big-block V-8, a modified truck engine (which Chevy was understandably loath to mention) offering 250 to 315 bhp. That year's base V-8 was a 185-bhp 283. Underscoring all this change was the new line-leading ...
In a hydraulic truck crane, the boom is telescopic and can be easily adjusted to whatever length is needed. In a crawler crane (one with tracks), the boom is made up of an open lattice of high-strength steel struts (making it lighter, which means it can potentially lift more), ...