USED MATERIAL HANDLING

If You Must Lift it, Push it, or Pull it, Used Material Handling Is the Answer

What is material handling equipment in general terms? Well, this category of equipment has some very broad definitions. Material handling equipment could be anything from a simple chain hoist to the most sophisticated over-head crane in use today. In most people’s minds, they don’t tend to include shelving, racks, ramps, and any of the other hardware associated in running a well-organized warehouse, yet those are all items used in handling material. Fork lifts and fork trucks of any and all definitions fall into this grouping of assorted equipment, so does the lowly old wooden pallet. Ironically if any one of these benign pieces of material handling equipment ever gets lost, goes down, or is otherwise out of service, suddenly the company is severely limited in what it can do. As Bud's Machine Tools can attest to personally, being in the mountains of the Salt Lake Valley, we are accustomed to short snaps of extremely cold weather. Well we got a cold spell once which froze up a local customer's electric leveling dock used to unload machinery and other products. For a couple of days, they could not load or unload trucks until the dock finally freed up. So, there is a good example of a relatively inexpensive piece of material handling equipment affecting a large portion of a company’s activity. Up to this point we have been discussing material handling as it pertains to shipping and receiving activities, what about material handling on the production floor? The best example is a 500-pound jib crane that could be located anywhere throughout the shop. This crane is small and easy to use and is usually located next to a given machine so as to handle heavy parts that need to be put on and off of that machine. Bud's Machine Tools has a continually turning inventory of used material handling equipment that comes in and goes out at an astounding rate. It is always best to call us if you see something you like in this segment because these pieces of equipment really come and go. When Bud's Machine Tools takes in a used piece of material handling equipment, we test the device as to its operational state, and once the device is confirmed to operate as intended, we put it into inventory as ready to sell.