Offload Reels

[Alwayslearningelec]

Morning all. So have 16 reels of wire, about 800lbs each, that need to be offloading a flatbed. The carrier thought they would do it but they are not.
What's best piece of equipment to get these off flatbed. We'd either need to have it in our shop or rent it. It's not a jobsite with other trades so we can't ask for their assistance. Thanks.

 

[masterinbama]

Morning all. So have 16 reels of wire, about 800lbs each, that need to be offloading a flatbed. The carrier thought they would do it but they are not.
What's best piece of equipment to get these off flatbed. We'd either need to have it in our shop or rent it. It's not a jobsite with other trades so we can't ask for their assistance. Thanks.

A small Lull might be your best bet.

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[infinity]

Use a truck with a lift tailgate. Back it up to the flat bed and roll then onto the other truck. Then lower them with the tailgate.

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

Then how get from there to staging area? pallet jack?

 

[infinity]

Yes, getting them on the ground is the hard part.

 

[Cow]

Rent a baby telehandler.

 

[hbiss]

When I worked for the cable company we had large reels like that delivered all the time. We had a pile of old tires that we would pile up behind the truck. Then we would just roll the reels off the truck and the tires would cushion the fall.

Of course the cable reel trailers we had made it easy to pick them up and put them on the bar and get them to where they needed to go.

-Hal

 

[masterinbama]

Rent a baby telehandler.

Never heard a lull called that.

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[K8MHZ]

Never heard a lull called that.

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What about a Sky-Trac? Telehandler was a new one on me, too.

 

[zbang]

Oh, you mean a "shoot-boom" lift? (lull? never heard that one)

Regional dialect strikes again.

 

[K8MHZ]

Oh, you mean a "shoot-boom" lift? (lull? never heard that one)

Regional dialect strikes again.

Lull is a brand name.

 

[Todd0x1]

Or a reach, or a gradeall, or .........

Telehandler is the technical term, all the other names are brand based and seemingly regional.

 

[hillbilly1]

Just don’t roll them off onto the tailgate of a truck! The company I started with, had a brand spanking new F-250 that the field superintendent drove. The office people decided to roll a spool of 500 mcm off the dock into his truck. Broke the tailgate right off! LOL!

 

[zbang]

Hmm, never seen Lull. Have seen Genie, JCB and a few others. (Genie-lift used to mean a single-person vertical work lift, now it could be almost anything.)

 

[hillbilly1]

Don’t know where they were made, but Lull used to exclusively the brand used in the south. Now I see quite a few brands out there.

 

[masterinbama]

Lull is a brand name.

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Like Kleenex or Chapstick.

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[steve66]

Lull is a brand name.

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Looks to me like JLG is the brand, and Lull is the type;

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And I've always heard them called JLG's.

 

[hillbilly1]

JLG acquired Lull in 2003, I think Lull was started in 1959?

 

[K8MHZ]

Looks to me like JLG is the brand, and Lull is the type;

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And I've always heard them called JLG's.

JLG used to make Lulls. They discontinued the line. To me a JLG is a manlift, or 'aerial work platform'.

The slang for 'telehandlers' is actually trade specific here. The sheet metal workers call them Lulls and we call them Sky-Tracks, no matter who actually made them.

 

[K8MHZ]

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