Lift Table Elevates Innovation to Meet Customer Demands
Barnhart often creates a new tool because of a customer need with no solution. That’s how the LT-50 Lift Table, the latest entry in the cool tool arsenal, came about.
A customer needed to lift a large MEP module approximately 26’ in the air. The installer had to then work safely to connect it to the ceiling in a utility building. The solution needed to be stable and have a high lift capacity.
Barnhart’s engineers and fab shop crew rose to the challenge and created the Lift Table. With its impressive lifting capacity and long range of motion, each unit can lift a 50,000-pound load from only 40 inches above the ground and push it up to a final height of 26 feet in a continuous movement.
Multiple lift tables can be used together in a modular fashion. This includes being stacked and connected to create a stable assembly with over 50 feet of total height. Various configurations offer total system lifting capacities of 400,000 pounds or more.
Project applications include:
- Equipment that hangs or connects to the underside of a structure with no available headroom – MEP modules, conveyors, boilers, big piping, HVAC units, some heat exchangers and more
- Landing/work platform outside a wall opening – Loads could be set on the platform with a crane or self-off-loaded with a Goldhofer trailer, then moved into the building with forklifts, slide system, SofTrac, or skates.
- Temporary Elevator – Raise/lower loads onto an upper floor or mezzanine.
- Overhead Crane installation and removal – A crane can be assembled on top of a turntable then supported and lifted by the tables.
- Emergency Shoring – Temporary support of a roof or structure
By working with the customer and leveraging expert engineering, Barnhart maximized safety, improved schedule and brought this new tool to market.
See the Lift Table in action.