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Material Hoist System For Heavy-Duty

Using Non-Stop Heavy-Duty on walls 100 feet high and over has become fairly routine. Naturally, feeding materials to a platform that high is a challenge. Cranes are very expensive.

Betamax makes a hoist and trolley system that fastens to our standard overhead protection/winter covering, but it cantilevers the load off the side of the tower, which limits the lifting capacity.

The best and safest solution is to lift the load straight up between the legs of the tower through a trapdoor in the laborers platform.

OUR NEW SYSTEM
The system we've developed consists of the Hoist Trap-door, our standard overhead, and a Hoist Receiver Bracket, which raises the hoist up out of the way and gives clearance for the doors to swing shut. There is a 1-inch gap between the doors for the hoist cable.

We are showing here the Betamax Leo hoist. Its capacity is 1,000 pounds single line (200-foot lift), and 2,000 pounds double line (100-foot lift). It lifts 80 feet per minute single line and 40 feet per minute double line. That may sound slow, but think about how much material you can land on the scaffold if you land 400 brick, or a triple batch of mortar, every 5 minutes.

MOVE THE "HOISTING BAY" TO THE NEXT WALL INTACT
When it's time to move your scaffold to the next wall, pick up the tower, hoist, and trapdoor all in one piece and set it in place in the middle of the next wall. When you put the hoist in the middle of the run, you reduce material handling time.

The Platform Trapdoor gives you a clear opening 61 inches wide by 50 inches front to back.

Hoist Trap-door
$1,965

The planks from adjacent towers lap over the elevating carriage by 12 inches and just touch the trapdoor. We suggest cleating these boards so they don't move when rolling mud tubs and brick dollies hit them coming off the trapdoor.

Place your hoist in the middle of the scaffold, not on the end, to make it faster to distribute materials to each end of the scaffolding.

All but the smallest Betamax hoist attaches to the Hoist Receiver in about 30 seconds with three hitch pins.

Hoist Receiver with 3 pins:
$475

(Hoist sold separately. )

Q. What do I need to get started?
A. A Betamax hoist, our hoist receiver, trapdoor, and overhead components. Many of you already own a Betamax hoist. If not, visit them here.

Hoist Trap-door	1,965
Hoist Receiver	475
2 Overhead Beams @ $218	436
2 Tall Guardrail Posts @ $97	194
2 Overhead Pushers @ $71	142
2 End Guardrails @ $59	118
Total:	$3,330

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Last Modified: January 12, 2012

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Material Hoist System For Heavy-Duty