Hi guys, I’ve been asked to design a mount for a manual winch to pull wooden pallets laden with approximately 800kgs of product across a plastic conveyor ONLY for times if the pallet gets stuck. Currently the warehouse team are attaching fibre straps and pulling them off with a FLT, the warehouse manager wants to move away from this practice (safety grounds), does anyone have any practical solutions for a mount/post to attach the manual winch to.
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Mounting a manual winch for pallets
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SWComposites
Aerospace
Design the post to take more than the rated winch capacity.
LittleInch
Petroleum
How does the pallet move normally?
Some sort of pallet wheely truck would be much lower risk surely??
I think this is the tail wagging the dog here.
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Some sort of pallet wheely truck would be much lower risk surely??
I think this is the tail wagging the dog here.
Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
Quantify the pull force and apply a generous service factor. Come back with a force value, height of winch force above floor level (if you are mounting this to a slab), or some information on what the winch mounts to and you'll probably get better suggestions. Based on not solving the conveyor problem, good luck with this.
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