Earthmoving Tires Spin on Behemoth Casters
Thursday, May 29, 2014
What’s built to move mountains, 10,000 pounds, more than twice your height and borne on Hamilton’s Behemoth casters?
Enter the earthmoving tire, manufactured by Goodyear's Topeka Plant in Kansas.
Goodyear chose a local firm, Topeka Foundry, to design and fabricate a large dolly to move these large tires throughout the Goodyear Plant. “These tires literally move the Earth, hundreds of tons of rock and minerals at a time,” said Tom Dolsky, vice president of Topeka Foundry. “We needed a caster capable of handling this tall order, and then some.”
Topeka Foundry designed and built the dolly and selected our Ultra Maxi-Duty, dual wheel swivel casters with 12 by 5-inch wheels to carry Goodyear's 12 feet in diameter tires around its factory. With four mounted on a custom rig, a single dolly hauls more than 72,000 pounds per load, or 36 tons of highly engineered rubber.
While earthmovers serve a variety of applications around the world – from seaports to quarries and underground construction – these 57-inch tires dwell on the surface to help mine extreme terrain.
Moving Heaven and Earth to Deliver
“One of the best parts about working with Hamilton is their turnaround time,” said Dolsky. “They quoted us about four or five weeks, and shipped in just three. That’s unheard of in this industry, especially with custom casters of this magnitude.”
With even tighter deadlines and higher order volume, it helps to have a Hamilton in your pocket, he added.
“All the years we’ve known Hamilton, they’ve never missed a shipping date. That says a lot,” he said. “Our customers depend on us for lightning fast delivery. And we can deliver thanks to Hamilton.”
Let’s move the Earth together. Call or email Jim Lippert, vice president of sales, 1-800-733-7655.
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