10 Ton Portable Jacks headed to Oklahoma City!

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10 Ton Portable Jacks headed to Oklahoma City!

Last week a shipment of eight of our 10T portable jacks headed to a customer in Oklahoma City. These jacks have a lift height of 76 inches, a lift speed of 9 inches per minute, and lift a combined total of 160,000lbs! These jacks carry our standard acme thread (on each lifting screw), which are designed to provide sufficient friction between the screw and bronze load bearing nut which allow it to be non-reversible and self-locking. These self-locking nuts along with our emergency stop buttons on every set of portable jacks gives us two forms of safety for the operators. The lifting screw is housed within the column structure so that the screw is protected from damage in the shop environment. Lastly, all of our welding is in accordance with American Welding Society D1.1 structural welding code and is inspected in house by one of our Certified Welding Inspectors. Everything is made here in CT, USA.

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Macton Train Hoist at Honolulu Authority Rapid Transit

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Macton Train Hoist at Honolulu Authority Rapid Transit

Check out the Photo of the Week from Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation!  "In the photo of the week, one of HART's four-car trains is propped up by a Macton Train Hoist.  This is no small task considering, each rail car is 65-feet long and weighs 72,000 pounds!  Doing the math, that means each train is 260-feet long, tipping the scales at a whopping 288,000 pounds or 144 tons...that is a heavy-duty hoist!" Follow the link to read more about this project.

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