Case Study 3
Scope of work:
The relocation of a rubber mill and mixer unit, from Southampton to France.
Following our survey of the French site it was clear that the intended location would not accommodate the height of the machine. The solution was to reduce the height of the machine once in France and also to sit the machine in a pit.
The mixing unit weighed 12tonnes and was situated on a mezzanine floor, 3 metres off the floor. With no access for an overhead head lift, the machine needed to be lifted down on a fork truck. However, to complicate matters there was a large mill under the mixer, which the mezzanine floor had been erected around.
Our engineers came up with a strategy of adding removable legs to the mezzanine floor to allow us to remove the large mill. With the mill removed the mezzanine floor was marked and removed to allow us to lower the mixer to the ground safely. The mill was loaded onto a hiab lorry and the mixer was loaded onto a low loader trailer while the mezzanine floor and associated parts were put onto a curtain side lorry
