Hydraulic Conversion Kit
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✓ Reliability: The normal locking and unlocking of all mechanical hold down systems on mechanical dock levelers produces wear on components that eventually leads to repairs.
✓ Less maintenance: Hydraulic dock levelers have no springs, hold-down mechanisms or other highly wearable parts, which means fewer moving parts to break down. Hydraulic dock owners save up to 91% on maintenance costs over 10 years.
✓ Low Noise Level: Smooth, quiet operation at the touch of a button creates a pleasant work environment.
✓ Easy operation: Open and close the hydraulic dock leveler with a push of a button, unlike mechanical dock levelers which require workers to manually open and close the dock lip, causing workplace injuries to the neck, shoulders and back.
✓ Safety: Wall mounted push button operation of hydraulic units provide easier operator control and a higher degree of safety. Fall-safe velocity fuse limits platform free-fall within 4″.
Information
Upgrade Your Mechanical or Air-Powered Dock Leveler to a Hydraulic Dock Leveler
Is your mechanical or air-powered dock leveler keeping up with the demanding nature of your operations? If not, your dock might need to be replaced entirely with a hydraulic-powered dock leveler—but there is an alternative, cost-effective solution.
Don’t Replace Your Dock, Improve It
The hydraulic conversion kit is designed to replace the air-powered lifting mechanism of your existing dock leveler with a hydraulic lifting mechanism. The hydraulic conversion kit adapts to all sizes of dock levelers and keeps your repair and replacement costs low. Minimize downtime in your daily operations by turning your air-powered dock leveler into a hydraulic dock leveler with the hydraulic conversion kit.
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Improve Safety
Deck and lip operation is accomplished quickly and easily using a push-button control station: no more chain-pulling or “walking” down the deck. A hydraulic velocity fuse replaces the mechanical safety legs, adding an extra layer of safety to cargo handling operations. The conversion kit’s universal design can be retrofitted on all pit-style dock levelers for increased longevity, greater productivity and reduced maintenance requirements.
An Adaptable Hydraulic Conversion Kit
Our hydraulic conversion kit includes:
- Self-contained, 1 HP Power Unit (available in single and three phase voltages)
- Deck and Lip Cylinder
- NEMA4 Push Button Control
- Hoses and Hardware
- Owner’s Manual
- Operations Placard
Easy Push-Button Control
The operator presses the control button until the deck is raised and the lip is fully extended. Releasing the button allows the lip to lower onto the truck bed. The operator stores the leveler by pressing the control button until the lip fully retracts. Releasing the button allows storing of the dock leveler.
In addition, the push button control panel is food and pharmaceutical safe. The enclosure is NEMA4X / IP65 rated to be resistant to both corrosion and wet conditions.
Upgrade to Integrate with the Rest of Your Loading Dock
The control panel can be upgraded to a Blue Genius Gold control panel to integrate with your trailer restraints, doors and dock lights. Control all your loading dock dock equipment with a single wall mounted control panel for easier operations and improved safety. This control panel is also NEMA4X / IP65 rated to be food and pharmaceutical safe.
Toe Guards for Canadian Safety Standards
Add full range toe guards to your mechanical docks to keep up with Canadian safety standards when converting to a hydraulic dock.
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“If there is a risk that tools or other objects could fall onto a person from a platform or other raised area, or through a floor opening or floor hole, |
(a) a toe board that extends from the floor of the platform or other raised area to a height of not less than 125 mm shall be installed; or
(b) if the tools or other objects are piled to such a height that a toe board would not prevent the tools or other objects from falling, a solid or mesh panel shall be installed from the floor to a height of not less than 450 mm.”
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Customizations
- Self-contained, 1 HP power unit (available in single and three phase voltages).
- Safety Skirt Package for 6' long and 8' long models (Part# 202-5024-99). Full range toe guards are required under OSHA safety standards for all mechanical to hydraulic conversions.
- Double Acting Lip Cylinder
- Blue Genius Combination Control Station with Vehicle Restraint and Dock Leveler.
- 10' and 12' Hydraulic Conversion.
- Trailer restraints systems.
- Fall-Stop safety barrier gates.
- Brush weather seals.
- Steel spring and steel face dock bumpers.
- Dock lights.
Warranty
• 1 year limited.