AN ECONOMICAL WAY TO HANDLE CONTAINERS
The Mobicon container handler is a 73,000lb capacity, rubber tired machine which follows the principals of a gantry crane, however has several unique patented differences that make it like no other machine or container handler available in the world.
It is designed to lift containers on and off trucks (lifts to 5.9 feet) and transport them around sites over bumps, up ramps, into warehouses, under awnings and up-to docks.
Like all good designs, the Mobicon is simple, it uses everyday technology and components and combines them to provide usable and unique benefits for container handling. It is so simple that in many countries an operator's licence is not required.
It lifts 33 tonne in any form of container, from 16' to 53', flat-racks, half heights, over heights, curtain-siders, in fact any configuration of container, without the need for any modifications or additional lifting equipment, no chains etc, it is all hydraulic.
Once lifted it can move containers around sites into warehouses, through normal warehouse doors, (it has a height of just 12.8 feet) effectively taking the box to the stock or the stock to the receiving point.
• The 60HP engine runs on about 1 gallon per hour
• No more wet weather loading or unloading
• No more container ramps to negotiate
• No more damaged stock due to long lift truck runs
• Better security
• Better control
• Less time needed for loading or unloading
• No more demurrage costs for trucks waiting to be loaded/unloaded
• No more premium freight costs for the use of side-loaders
• No more expensive yard maintenance bills caused by big Forklifts and Side-loaders
• Safer, Faster, Cheaper than the alternatives
As the Mobicon weighs only 28,000 lbs, uses 8 wheels, it can operate quite easily on compacted gravel, bitumen or standard thickness concrete, maximum laden wheel loading is 12,200lb tonne (with 57,350lb load) about the same as a laden prime mover and trailer.
If your business handles between 6 and 500 containers a week, then the Mobicon may prove to be a real alternative with significant increase in flexibility and at a much cheaper cost per box handled.
