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Beam Trolleys and Crane Bridges, Push, Geared & Electric
This category features beam trolleys, which are specialised load suspension devices designed to carry equipment beneath them as they move along a monorail/runway lifting beam. This beam can be made from materials such as rolled steel joists (RSJ), universal beams (UB), or universal columns (UC). In our online catalogue, we offer four distinct types of beam trolley: manual push/pull, geared travel (driven by the pulling of a hand chain), electric and pneumatic (air-powered).
Beam trolleys act as mobile anchorage points, easily attached to a lifting beam to support devices like chain hoists. This design allows for smooth movement along the beam’s length.
You may come across different names for beam trolleys, including load trolleys, beam runners, 'I' beam crane trolleys, beam flange rollers, or girder monkeys.
In this section, we not only focus on manual push/pull trolleys and geared travel runway trolleys, which operate with a chain drive, but also on electric and pneumatically driven trolleys. Geared trolleys provide enhanced control, especially when handling larger loads, as they are moved along the beam by a hand chain.
Most trolleys are adjustable, with some designed for quick release, but we also supply heavy-duty and low-headroom options, along with swivel truck trolleys for navigating tight radius bends on runway tracks when necessary, all of which can be either manual or powered electrically or air-powered.
Electric Travel Beam Trolleys provide the same basic function as a manual trolley except has electric powered travel along the beam controlled by pendant control or other.
- Our range of electric travel trolleys are adjustable to suit different beam sizes and have different power supply options for example: 1Ph (110v or 240v - single phase) and 3Ph (400v or 415v - 3 phase), also single speed, dual speed and variable speed travel units are available.
- An Electric trolley eliminates manual handling issues and can be used in environments that are unsuitable for manual operation, e.g. when used high up, out of reach, above deep water or chemicals.
- The Kito MR2 & Yale VTE are our most popular unit though we can also supply from many other manufacturers such as Morris, Verlinde, Pfaff etc...
Articulating crane trolleys are designed to be used in pairs to install a mobile crane bridge between two parallel RSJ's in the roof space. Thus creating a simple, low cost push/pull (manual) or electric overhead crane system.
- The crane trolley will articulate (twist) to prevent them crabbing; this is when the trolley castors bite into the 'downshop' parallel beams.
- Please contact our technical staff with your desired SWL/WLL (capacity), beam sizes and crane cross travel span, we will then help you specify the overhead crane trolleys that best suits your application.
