Spanco Custom PF-Series Gantry Crane Provides Secure Unloading of Steel Bundles from Flatbeds Overview A housing material supplier receives daily shipments of steel bundles. The bundles arrive on flatbed trucks that are backed into a large warehouse and unloaded. Shipments can range from one 500-pound I-beam to a full truck load of 40,000 pounds. The steel is then transported from the warehouse to existing indoor and outdoor stockpiles. For several years, the method for unloading the steel from flatbeds involved using forklifts. The number of forklifts used varied depending on the size of the load, but a full shipment might require up to four 6,000-pound capacity forklifts for unloading. Trying to coordinate the transfer of a large steel load with four forklifts became not only time consum

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