Hoists

Repair in Place (RIP) Jacks

Repair in Place (RIP) jacks: Whiting Lifting Equipment 

The Whiting Hydraulic RIP/One-Spot Lifting System can be engineered and arranged to maximise the efficiency of the lifting application at your repair facility. The hydraulic jacks are equipped with ratchet-type safety devices in addition to standard hydraulic safety devices.

Installation can provide side jacks for lifting both ends of the wagon simultaneously resulting in faster throughput. The use of this equipment also leads to increased wagon utilization as the workflow in end of wagon operations, such as changing out draft gear, is now completed in a shorter time period.

Hydraulic In-Floor Jack Installations Include:

65-tonne Outside Jacks at each side for lifting wagon, bolster, and side frame for repacking, removal of the bogie, and repair of under rolling stock members.

135-ton Centre Jack for jacking under the centre sill of special wagons, which cannot be handled with outside jacks. This allows roller bearing, axle, and wheel assemblies to be removed, permitting repacking, spring replacement, etc.

Operator Control Console so the operator does not need to be close to the freight wagon during the repair operation.

Features:

Remote control

Operator’s safety

Great lifting capacity

Body Hoists

Body Hoists: Whiting Lifting Equipment 

Specific to light rail and trams, Whiting body hoists and supports can be used in conjunction with Whiting Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists to facilitate body and bogie separation, or to elevate rolling stock to safe heights and hold for inspections and repairs to the underbody. 

Features:

Suitable for under the car inspection

Great power capacity

Variable raise height

Rail Bogie Repair Hoist

Bogie Repair Hoist: Whiting Lifting Equipment 

A bogie repair hoist’s primary purpose is to increase shop safety and efficiency by providing maintenance personnel with a convenient access height for the inspection, maintenance and repair of the bogie.

Using a rugged and proven electro-mechanical steel-alloy screw and bronze-alloy nut design, the two-screw bogie repair hoists offers self-locking nuts along with steel safety nuts as backup for added failsafe protection. Added features like over travel limit switches help make the bogie repair hoists one of the safest pieces of equipment in your maintenance shop.

Whiting’s bogie repair hoists range in size from 8 to 20 tonnes and are an integral part of the car hoist maintenance system in many modern transit and freight maintenance shops. With minimal needed routine maintenance, Whiting bogie repair hoists are known for their long-term reliability, open design for easy bogie servicing and safety.

Features:

Highly safe and efficient

Minimal maintenance needed

Long-term reliability

Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists

Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists: Whiting Lifting Equipment 

Whiting passenger rolling stock hoist systems are the safe solution when repairing light rail underbody and/or side components. Only Whiting hoists utilise a patented safety design to raise and lower rollingstock, reducing the possibility of incidents caused by sudden dropping of the elevated vehicle.

Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists raise the entire rolling stock body to a convenient height for worker access to underbody and side components. Utilising a time-tested mechanical screw and nut design, two or four screw designs are standard in capacity ranges up to 45 tonnes. Rolling stock can be raised individually, articulated, or in married pairs with hoists positioned under each bogie location.

Depending on your site needs, Whiting Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists can be custom engineered for deep or shallow pit configurations. An important feature of the electromechanical screw and nut design requires motor power to the Passenger Rolling Stock Hoists to both raise and lower, thus minimizing the possibility of inadvertent lowering of the hoist with personnel near the rollingstock.

Features:

Patented safety design

Variable raise height

Custom designs