Three Unusual Benefits To Using Aluminum Flatbeds
Posted on: 1 July 2018
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Aluminum flatbeds are trailers that are entirely aluminum. They differ from other flatbed trailers in that other flatbeds have wooden floors. Aluminum trailers also have some additional benefits that you may not have thought about, and for which you might have some use. This is especially true if these trailers are transporting specific industrial and manufacturing supplies.
Aluminum Likes the Cold
Think of aluminum soda pop cans. Soda pop cans chill quickly and easily. So do aluminum flatbed trailers. When you need to keep barrels of chemicals cool, or you need to transport materials that have a very low melting point, you can load a crate of dry ice onto the middle of the flatbed trailer, and then load your materials around the dry ice. The aluminum absorbs the cold from the dry ice pallet, and keeps chemicals and solids cold during transport. (Of course, this only works for the duration of the dry ice and its ability to remain frozen, but a dry ice company can help calculate that for you.)
Aluminum Amplifies Electrical Flow
Aluminum has the fourth highest rating as an electrical conductor. This means that if you needed to amplify electrical flow or electrical signals to turn on machinery or jumpstart something, you could use the electrical properties of an aluminum flatbed trailer to increase electrical flow, or amplify an electrical signal. Just be sure to keep your distance from the trailer after you switch on the power from several car batteries or another power source so that you are not zapped in the process.
Aluminum as a Lightweight Support
If you have some really heavy machinery and you need to lift it into part of your factory that is above the ground floor, the aluminum flatbed can be used as a support. The crane's hooks and cables can go under the aluminum flatbed and around it before connecting to the lifting hook of the crane. When the flatbed is disconnected from the truck, it is extremely lightweight.
A crane can easily lift the aluminum flatbed, and the machinery tied to it, up to a roof or an area above ground floor. (Usually, this is done as an easier means of lifting industrial cooling fans to the roof of a building, but you could use the approach for other equipment as well.) Then the crane can lift and lower the empty flatbed to the ground again.
Get in touch with a business like Martin Truck Bodies, Inc to learn more.