What You Should Know About the Floor Mounted Jib Crane

Asides increasing worker productivity in factories, floor jib cranes help reduce workplace injuries and enhance safety.

Floor Mounted Jib Cranes Design:

• Most jib cranes have a simple design. Floor mounted type jib cranes are generally built in an L shape.
• While there are wall mounted jib cranes available, mounting job cranes to the floor allows them to carry great loads.
• Floor mounted, or free standing jib cranes as they are sometimes called can even be built to withstand harsh weather making them useful for outdoor applications as well as indoor ones.
• The floor mounted cranes can rotate a full 360 degrees.

As they are among the smallest and simplest cranes, jib cranes have a variety of options as far as power. Some, usually the smallest ones, can be fully manual. Others may be partially manual and have motorized rotation devices.

Floor-mounted Jib Cranes Applications:

• The floor jib crane is considered the most versatile and economical solution for handling materials within a workstation.
• This type of jib crane can be installed anywhere, whether indoors or outdoors.
• Hence, they can be placed in open areas where they can serve many workstations, underneath large bridge cranes, or used outdoors at loading docks or marinas.
• Indoors, they can be applied to operations such as machining and assembly, where they can be used alongside other jib cranes to provide staged operation.