Day: April 18, 2019

Craig May, a production supervisor with Vulcraft of New York, remembers his days as a lead rigger in the plant, pushing 2-ton carts across concrete floors in 100-degree temps.

“It’s a very physically demanding job, and every time I see my lead rigger now using the CartCaddy Cart Mover, I think how much healthier I would be if I’d had a CartCaddy when I did that job.”

As a result of his own experience, he went looking for a solution to manual labor 2 years ago. He found CartCaddy. “We were able to go online and look at the videos and decide for ourselves which cart was going to work the best for us. After seeing the videos and talking to our Sales Engineer, Matt Schilling, we were confident that we made the right decision for our teammates’ ergonomics.”

The crew thanked him for CartCaddy, and he advises anyone considering a cart pusher, puller or mover:  “If you care about the health and safety of your teammates, it’s a no brainer. They’re amazing.”

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Dana Hurst, Truck Manager for Green Willow Trucking and Andersen Dairy, in Battle Ground, WA, regularly moves 150-pound milk carts by hand from his truck to dairy coolers of the grocery stores.

It’s a strenuous job that requires multiple trips a day for all his drivers. So Dana decided to find a more ergonomic solution to manually pushing and pulling.

Searching online, he found a full catalog of CartCaddy Cart Movers and Tuggers and signed up for a free onsite demo to make sure the Caddy would work with his company’s milk carts.

“A few of our drivers tested it, in fact,” Dana said. “At first they were skeptical, but after they used it a few times they liked it.”

The free onsite demo option allowed Dana to “try before you buy,” which helped him determine his crew needed a bigger CartCaddy model. They switched to the larger CartCaddy 5WP Cart Mover. Hurst and his drivers have enjoyed the new efficiency and time savings the CartCaddy delivers.

Jack Somerville of Vertiv Corp. says his role for the past 10 years in advanced manufacturing engineering has been “To bring my company new technology to solve problems in manufacturing. During that time, we bought 5 CartCaddies to help us move larger, heavier items in our manufacturing facility.”

Jack knew from the beginning that specs and drawings of the attachment connection from CartCaddy to his carts were crucial–without them, moving components weighing 40,000 lbs. down the assembly line simply wasn’t going to work.

Moving components of this magnitude also required a different speed setting on the CartCaddies. Jack’s sales engineer, Jerry Ries, had a solution right away. “DJ Products quickly sent out a pendant that we could use to adjust the speed,” he said. “That helped us get it dialed into exactly what we needed to move our units safely and at the proper speed.”

Satisfied with DJ Products response and flexibility, Vertiv Corp. has ordered heavy cart movers for loads weighing in excess of 150,000 lbs.

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