Container handling

[likesfish]

employ a clone army of Geoff capes
though if you could clone an army of geoff capes you could rule the world


although if you did rule the world sorting out a warehouse problem would be the least of your worries

 

[T & P]

I have to design a container handling warehouse for a client.

My idea was to move the containers around by gantry crane.

But the client says it has come across a system of roller balls fitted into the floor where a man can manually push a full 40' container around by himself.

Has anyone come across this system and which companies make it?

You mean like the systems built in on many military and civilian cargo planes?

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/5/6/1011650.jpg

 

[Errol's son]

You mean like the systems built in on many military and civilian cargo planes?

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/5/6/1011650.jpg

That is not quite the thing... UPS have it in the You Tube that someone posted...

But gantry cranes are the way forward IMHO in this case.

 

[mrs quoad]

employ a clone army of Geoff capes
though if you could clone an army of geoff capes you could rule the world

Unless someone blocked their path with budgies.

 

[Errol's son]

I have just spoken to company that reckons it does the ball bearing container floors and the floor can handle 40' full containers - I am awaiting the MD to call me back with more info.

 

[Errol's son]

The supplier is not a subcontractor - they supply exactly what is requested, whether it is fit for purpose (and won't end up killing warehouse workers) rests entirely on the prime, the ultimate design authority.

The supplier can offer help in selecting and fitting, but it will be guidance,a nd guidance based on reduced information.

Sub-contracting involves a legal arrangement where authority/responsibility is devolved - the OP has said they'd consider employing an engineer from the supplier, which is a good thing.

Construction law is not developed in Angola. Basically if you fuck up you get away with it but you are unlikely to get much more work. I recently met a Chinese engineer who recently fucked up big time doing groundworks on a government project - he laid the foundations in the wrong place so we, erectors of a prefab steel structure, could not build off them.

He got sent back to China. At the adjudication, if you can call it that, he was told that a few years ago he would have received a bullet in the back of the head. Times have moved on, instead, he got deported.