Northern tools casters

Distributor of material handling products including casters. JIT delivery available. Distributor of scaffold and Vertical Supply. Products include steel, arch and ladder frames, cross bracing, guard rail posts, casters, screw jacks, adjustable leg, short base jack, I-beam and box beam planks. Los Angeles. Rancho Cordova.

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A few thoughts. With rigidly mounted casters, you have to plan for three casters to support the entire load, due to floor irregularities. Paranoid people plan worry about temporary loads on just two casters, as it tips from one three-legged stance to another.

I don't think three lb casters are remotely safe for a lb load. You either need heavier casters or a load-spreading mechanism a suspension, if you will. Given a choice between 6" wheels with fat PU tires and 8" wheels with thin PU tires, I would take the 8" wheels with thin tires. Significantly easier to push, with less set to the tires. Even easier to push, but much harder on your floors, would be solid metal wheels with no PU tires at all. I'm short and already have to stand on a platform to operate my mill of a comparable size.

How are you going to secure the mill from unwanted rolling? None of the lb dual-wheel casters I saw at Northern have any sort of lock, not even a swivel lock. Milland liked this post. Bryan, I wouldn't put casters under it, it's just to big and heavy. A better plan is to find a corner of your shop to locate the machine in and consider it 'stationary', much like a wall that can't be moved or a doorway that must remain open.

That's my two cents. If you want some serious bad-ass low profile casters that are not going to break, I have some, and willing to put them up for criticism here, you will need a smooth concrete floor. If interested pm me. Blocking at pallet jack height is another option -- if you have a pallet jack and some room.

If there's a failure, you want that free-fall really, really short. Add three generations in the family in machine tools I think casters will work fine if they are big enough. Pipe is a pain in the ass, but it works. The right skates will probably work fine here, but the OP doesn't have the experience to know what skates are right or how to use them. I've rolled 20 tons over gravel and dirt with skates on wood and 11 gauge sheetmetal.

I could give a shit if the concrete is rough or smooth or uneven. I'd just be happy there's concrete. Sounds like an over-thought easy job to me. I keep saying this in different ways. Previous owner was an Executive of a paving contractor. Really hard to find a better floor than he had his guys pour for his own residence.

Trenched for a new waterline. Trenched again to repair tree-root damage, hand built-back with plate tamper and materials to resist the rented forklifts now and then. I shall chip-seal it "someday". The lb units have a pair of great, fat urethane rollers that conform just fine to a rough surface. AND were made to be "ganged" longwise, sideways, or both No problem.

All it takes is for one corner under a load to not get the memo about direction soon enough. Pre-aiming can help. We all do that, and often. The killer is when one goes sidegodlin midway of the trek from some childish insult. Small chunk of coarse sand, even. Supermarket cart ever do that to yah on some filth you can't even FIND? THEN the caster gets side-loaded. Ugly results. I can usually save the attach bolts and nylocks. Rest is trashed. Originally Posted by Garwood.

Originally Posted by Milland. Well, yeah. Easy for you. And likely for me. But the two statements above are where someone can get into trouble, and we're trying to help with that.