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Move Heavy Trailers with the Cart Caddy Wagon Wheel

CartCaddy Wagon Wheel

Pulling or moving heavy carts or trailers should always be done carefully to prevent them from tipping over or causing injuries. When you’re exploring options for a safe way to move this type of equipment around, consider the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug from DJ Products. Learn more about these tugs.

Why Choose the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug

This tug is able to pull or move trailers and carts that weigh up to 3,000 pounds smoothly and safely. The tug’s wagon wheel steering system provides an easy way to maneuver carts and trailers with heavy loads on them without having to worry about accidents or injuries. Whether you have equipment with a pin, pintle, or ball hitch, you can attach the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug securely. Using this tug helps reduce the risk of injuries when employees move or pull heavy carts or trailers. This helps keep employees safe while also lowering the risk of damage to products or equipment.

Variable Speed

What kinds of features does the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug have? These tugs are able to move between 0 and 3 miles per hour in forward or reverse. The feature an ergonomically correct variable speed, which can help lower the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome. This design also makes it easy for employees to move or pull carts and trailers smoothly, even while making intricate moves. The tug allows loads to be turned 90 degrees without tipping over.

Reliable Battery System

They also have a 36-volt battery system with three 12-volt batteries and come with a charger that works with 120/220 Hrz. outlets. The battery system can give you up to 16 hours of continuous use before needing to be charged up again. This provides plenty of battery power for a full work day or two shifts.

Safety Stop Switch

This feature on the back of the handle bar box allows employees to stop the tug right away in order to prevent injuries. This helps ensure that employees stay safe while operating the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug.

To request a demo of the CartCaddy WagonWheel Shorty Tug or for more information, please contact DJ Products.

Cart Caddy Shorty the Most Versatile Industrial Tug Made

Most Versatile Cart Puller Ever

When your business needs to move carts and heavy wheeled equipment around, finding a safe way to do so is important. Industrial tugs that are able to pull these large items makes moving them much more efficient and reduces the risk of injury to employees. The Cart Caddy Shorty Cart Puller from DJ Products offers an ideal solution.

Move Carts and Other Equipment with Ease

Having employees push and pull carts around in awkward areas or tight spots runs the risk of on-the-job injuries, as well as damage to products or supplies. The Cart Caddy Shorty industrial tug provides a simple way to move carts around in these areas without a lot of difficult maneuvering. This industrial tug is able to move carts with two straight casters and two front swivel casters, along with other types of carts and heavy pieces of equipment weighing up to 3,000 pounds. Its small size and design allow it to easily make turns, even in tight corners and hallways. Carts and other equipment can be turned 90 degrees without tipping over.

Pull Wheeled Carts All Day Without Recharging

The Cart Caddy Shorty Cart Puller comes with three 12-volt batteries and a 36-volt system that provides up to 16 hours of continuous use before needing to be recharged. Employees can use this industrial tug for two shifts without having to worry about making sure it has enough charge. When you do need to recharge it, the charger works with 120/220 Hrz outlets.

Push or Pull Carts Fast or Slow as Needed

With speeds ranging from 0 to 3 mph, the Cart Caddy Shorty industrial tug can move carts slowly or more quickly as needed. Slower speeds allow carts and equipment to be moved safely in tight areas, while faster speeds make it easy to move these items longer distances without taking up much time. This industrial tug can go in forward and reverse as needed.

Find Out More About Our Industrial Tug Line

If you’re looking for more information about the Cart Caddy Shorty Cart Puller, contact DJ Products. We can provide you with more details about this industrial tug, such as its safety features.

Equipment Investment May Save You on Workers’ Comp Insurance Claims

Prevent Workmans Comp Claims

Can you put a price on the safety of your employees? A one-time investment in equipment such as movers and tugs can mean a dramatic savings over the never-ending costs of ongoing workers’ compensation insurance claims.

What Constitutes a Workplace Injury?

Most companies are legally required to carry workers’ compensation insurance to help limit an employee’s financial loss in case of injury. A work-related injury is defined as one incurred during the course of employment, which actually includes a wide range of cases.

While most workplace injuries happen on company grounds, they can also occur off-site, such as while driving a company-owned vehicle, if the corresponding activity is part of job responsibilities.

An injury that occurs during lunch or break time can be considered work-related if it happens on company property or off-site, such as during a meeting with a client.

Workplace injuries don’t even have to occur during work hours. They can happen during holiday parties or other after-hour events sponsored by an employer.

Injuries sometimes occur when employees fail to observe proper safety rules. As of today there is no consistency regarding legal interpretation of such incidents, so you shouldn’t assume the employer is free of responsibility.

Depression and other mental illnesses caused by workplace conditions may be covered, as well as pre-existing conditions that are aggravated by performing a job.

DJ Products Offers a Full Line of Movers and Tugs

Electric movers and tugs such as our popular CartCaddy reduce labor costs and workplace injuries by allowing a single employee to safely move loads of hundreds and even thousands of pounds. Visit our website for more information.

What are Some of the Ergonomic Risk Factors in Industrial Settings?

Ergonomic Risk Factors

Warehouses and other other industrial workplaces that involve primarily physical labor often suffer periods of low productivity due to employee injuries. Lessen this risk by creating a workplace that better accommodates your employees’ capabilities, a process known as ergonomics.

Common Injury-Prone Workplace Activities

When designing the layout and flow of your workplace, here are three main areas that should be addressed:

Repetitive Tasks

A number of industrial jobs include repetitive tasks that are governed by the work process and production goals. These movements, which can be accompanied by awkward postures, cause undue stress on muscles, ligaments and joints. The result is repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, that may become chronic if not treated successfully.

Excessive Force

Moving heavy loads is a common factor behind many workplace injuries. Employees may develop muscle fatigue trying to lift too much weight, lifting frequently or lifting using poor form. Shifting the burden to battery-powered industrial tugs greatly reduces the risk of lifting injuries.

Awkward Postures

Lack of appropriate ergonomic design can force employees to perform tasks using awkward postures that overload muscles and push joints beyond their optimum range of motion. It’s a double whammy when this situation is compounded by repetitive movements.

Reduce Work-Related Injuries with Industrial Tugs from DJ Products

Our electric industrial tugs, such as the popular CartCaddy, let employees easily move loads up to 10,000 pounds on their own. These tugs include ergonomic features that allow for easy and stress-free maneuvering of loads across any surface.

Visit our website or call 800.686.2651 to learn more from our helpful sales engineers.

Tips for Smooth Operations at Your Warehouse

Warehouse Organization and Management

Warehouse operation is the backbone of a successful company, but it’s easy to lose control of all the moving parts. Use these helpful tips to manage the details that keep your warehouse running on all cylinders.

1. Establish an Organized System

Without a logical system, your warehouse will fall into chaos as employees fall back on their own random methods. Set up the warehouse using a well-thought-out plan based on operational goals.

2. Stay Flexible

Your company is a dynamic environment where goals and conditions can change rapidly. Be sure to assess your warehouse system periodically and make any necessary changes to stay current with the business plan.

3. Make Receiving a Priority

All shipments should be received promptly and placed in the appropriate location so they’re readily available. Deal with damages and shortages immediately before problems pile up.

4. Train Your Staff

There’s no such thing as being overtrained. Develop a thorough program for training new associates, but include ongoing training and cross-training to put employees in the best position to succeed.

5. Establish and Maintain Effective Safety Practices

Workplace injuries have a ripple effect on lost productivity and increased expenses. Use proper equipment and work methods to reduce the chance of accidents and injuries.

Streamline Warehouse Operations with Industrial Tugs from DJ Products

Moving heavy equipment and materials is one of the primary causes of workplace injuries. Our battery-powered industrial tugs like our popular CartCaddy let a single employee move loads of up to 10,000 pounds easily and efficiently. Visit our website and chat with our sales engineers to find the best solution for your needs.

Riding an Experiential Trend, Breweries Enter the Hotel Market

Use of Industrial Caddies Can Keep Your Employees Safe When Moving Heaving Objects Like Kegs

Breweries of all sizes seem to have found their niche somewhere in the market. Everything from global retailers to local micro-breweries see success, but one beer-maker has decided to take things a step further with a hotel theme based on brewery-related tourism.

Start of a Trend?

Stay and play destinations have been around for centuries, but few, if any, have been developed around the concept of a brewery. With micro-brews becoming more popular every year, it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided to try a destination brewery concept. What remains to be seen is if the first one will be a one-off experiment with questionable results, or if the hotel’s success leads to other micro- and macro-brewers designing their own beer-themed affiliated hotels. It’s likely that you will have an answer to that question within the next couple of years.

Unique Challenges for Brewery-Themed Hotels

Hotels that cater to a specialty clientele usually have to provide more to their guests to make up for the higher price. This can include hauling around more items, requiring more manpower, or specialized equipment that can do most of the heavy lifting. With a hotel attached to a brewery, chances are that many kegs of beer will need to be moved around, requiring the use of powered hotel carts. These carts can reduce staffing, cut down on service time, and reduce staff injuries considerably.

To find out more about our hotel maintenance solutions, give us a call at 1-800-686-2651. Our knowledgeable team can help you find the right product for any job – big or small.

Highlighting the Cart Caddy Shorty

Moving carts through the narrow, congested hallways and sharp corners of hospitals and nursing homes can be challenging. Our Cart Caddy Shorty combines compact size with power and flexibility to allow smooth transport of even the heaviest loads.

Dealing with sick patients and elderly people requires quick and efficient movement of beds, food carts and other bulky equipment. This durable electric cart pusher attaches to the swivel-caster end of four-wheeled carts. Once the arm attachment is in place, the pivot feature allows for a full 90-degree turn of loads, preventing awkward and time-consuming jack-knifing.

The 36-volt system includes three 12-volt batteries designed to provide enough battery life for two shifts. Forward and reverse speeds of up to 3 MPH enable the Cart Caddy Shorty to easily keep pace with the operator. The twist grip control is ergonomically designed to prevent carpal tunnel and allow easy operation.

Densely populated buildings such as hospitals and nursing homes make safety a vital concern. The Cart Caddy Shorty offers a safety stop switch at the back of the pusher handle, making it readily accessible in case of emergencies. Safety horns and lights are also available for even more visibility in crowded areas.

Whatever your equipment handling needs are, DJ Products has a solution for them. We have equipment tugs to handle loads from dumpsters and waste containers all the way up to airplanes and helicopters. Our knowledgable Sales Engineers can help you find just what you’re looking for. Contact us at 800.686.2651 for more information.

Free CartCaddy Demo Program Lets You Try Before You Buy

If you’re a businessman, you know that marketing and sales can get a customer in the door and make that first sale, but it’s superior customer service that keeps customers coming back. The management and staff of DJ Products are dedicated to providing our customers with superior service. If you have a material handling problem, our trained sales engineers can help you find a cost-effective, ergonomic solution that will improve production efficiency, benefit employee health and safety and improve your bottom line.

That’s a tall order for one of our compact, fuel-efficient, highly-maneuverable CartCaddies, but we know our equipment. We’re so certain of our product, we offer a free demo trial program. Try before you buy! Contact us and one of our sales engineers will make arrangements for you to receive and utilize a CartCaddy cart pusher at your facility before you buy. Put our ergonomically-designed, easy to maneuver, extremely versatile CartCaddy cart movers to the test in your own environment before you decide to order. It’s a good way for you to get to know us and experience first-hand the superior customer service that keeps our customers coming back.

A typical response from our demo program is this comment from C.F. at Admiral Beverage Corp.: “Tried it, all is well! Just send the invoice for payment.”

Here’s what some of our other customers have to say about DJ Products’ innovative CartCaddy carts, tugs and movers and our superior customer service program:

“Very impressed with the unit and love it!” said M.W. of Mark Webber, noting that the unit shipped sooner than expected.

“The CCShorty is working great. We haven’t had any problems with it. I will share this with other Weyco. Thanks for checking on us,” said J.G. of Weyerhaeuser, pleased with our follow-through customer service.

“The CartCaddy 5WP is working very well. The service you provide is great and it will be a pleasure to do future business with you,” said S. F. of Weyerhaeuser.

“Easy to operate, lots of power! Just like you said!” raved S.P. of Advanced Barrier Extrusions.

“First try worked flawlessly; all folks like it. Very maneuverable; talking about buying second unit,” noted a pleased R.R. at Aerospace.

“You did a great job adapting it to our containers,” said B.W. of Air Products, noting our ability to engineer and build to order.

“They got all five units. The one extra unit was for their gift shop and they LOVE it. They are very pleased with all the units; made their job so much easier,” said L.S. of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The hospital’s L.F. added, “Very pleased with your service and assistance … been a pleasure working with you.”

“Folks surprised at how fast it goes,” said A.P. of Airforce Research. “Slicker than they thought!!”

“The unit they have now; they want another one! Sending over PO# for two units,” said A.B. and Add Vantage.

Highlighting the Cart Caddy Roll Pusher

Heavy, bulky boxes and crates are difficult enough to move around a warehouse or workplace. How do you handle round products like paper rolls and spools that can turn on their own? Enter the CartCaddy Roll Pusher from DJ Products.

Our Roll Pusher puts an end to awkward attempts to manually move these circular shaped items. It adds a custom, adjustable roller system mounted to the front of our CartCaddy heavy duty pusher/puller. The roller adds pressure to the tires for extra traction while it pushes against the bottom of the object being moved.

The ergonomically designed variable speed twist grip allows the operator to roll the object forward without letting it go too fast. The item will accelerate and slow down along with the speed of the CartCaddy. In addition, the rollers extend beyond the profile of the pusher to pick individual rolls that are stacked next to each other.

The Roll Pusher can accommodate loads of up to 20,000 pounds. Its ease of use allows a single person to operate it, reducing the amount of manpower needed to transport items. The three-battery system provides 16 hours of continuous use to last through two shifts.

Our CartCaddy Roll Pusher is only one of many material handling solutions available from Team Cart Caddy. We have products to fit applications from hospitals to hotels to general aviation. Call 800.686.2651 to get help from one of our friendly Sales Engineers. If you prefer, take advantage of our convenient online chat service for immediate assistance.

Improve Warehouse Efficiency With Cart Movers

Moving carts throughout your warehouse, even ones mounted on wheels, is a cumbersome and time-consuming task. Traditional equipment like forklifts no longer fit current material handling needs. Improve efficiency and worker safety with one of the battery-powered movers from DJ Products.

Our selection of CartCaddies includes models that can accommodate loads of up to 50,000 pounds. These units are designed to allow easy operation by a single worker, eliminating the need to devote valuable manpower to the tasks. A customized attachment lets the operator quickly connect to the load. In addition, it transfers weight to the CartCaddy tires, providing needed traction.

Are work-related injuries in your workplace cutting into productivity and reducing the bottom line? Our CartCaddies are ergonomically designed to prevent many of the more common injuries. For example, the variable speed twist grip allows smooth starting and stopping without promoting repetitive-stress injuries such as carpal tunnel.

The electric caddies are powered by three 12-volt batteries which will generally last through two shifts of continuous use before recharging. The units are also compact and can pivot a full 180 degrees under the arm attachment, meaning they can smoothly and safely maneuver through even the tightest quarters in your warehouse.

We have an assortment of movers to provide solutions to a wide variety of applications. Our Sales Engineers are ready to help you find the one that’s right for your needs. Call 800.686.2651 or use our convenient online chat feature and find out why you should be a member of Team Cart Caddy.

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