Hire and Rental News - Access in Action - November 2017

30 ACCESS IN ACTION • NOVEMBER 2017 Since its commissioning in May, Yering Station Winery in the Yarra Valley has made a dramatic saving in production time and major improvements in safety, Winemaker Brendan Hawker said. “Having the 5.3m working height platform saved using a forklift to pull down an entire 6m stack of 228 or 500 litre French oak barrels, to check the wine or top up a barrel,” Brendan said. “We currently siphon from a height to ‘top’ our barrels, but with our new strategy using the Bravi we can employ positive displacement to move the wine to the top of the stacks, using a small pump or pressurising a keg to dispense the wine." Brendan said an empty 228 litre barrel weighs 30-40kg and around 300kg when full, with a 500 litre barrel weighing up to Drunk on success – how an EWP makes improvements in a winery A Bravi Sprint elevated work platform, distributed and backed nationally by Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA), is being used to check and fill wine barrels for an iconic Victorian winery. 550-600kg when full. Major Accounts Manager at Toyota Material Handling’s Melbourne branch, Adem Shemshedin, said Yering Station also has two of the latest model Toyota 1.8 tonne payload 8FBE18 three-wheel counter-balance battery electric forklifts, for barrel haul and warehousing. TMHA last year began distributing four models of the driveable Bravi EWP, with working heights up to 5.3m and platform capacity up to 280kg. The unit at Yering Station has a material load capacity of 115kg. Safety features on the Bravi Sprint include a cut-out in the hydraulic lifting system if the interlocking gate is not closed correctly and an operator platform service lock. Contact: 1800 425 438 or visit website: www.toyotamaterialhandling.com.au The 10m working height GTTZ10EJ vertical mast is the first of its kind in Three launches from Sinoboom at APEX Asia in Shanghai Sinoboom’s line-up and features an automatic pot hole protection system, zero tailswing, small turning radius, 345° rotation and a horizontal reach of 3.3m. The model is designed to be strong and compact, allowing it to enter narrow doors and elevator shafts for example. An emergency lowering system is also included, as well as forklift slots. Another launch is the 12m working height GTJZ electric scissor lift, boasting a new chassis design to create a more solid, sturdy performance. There are protruding steps to prevent surface paint rub and upgrades to maintenance accessibility and overall machine performance, including a longer run-time. Sinoboom’s third debut will be the 16m platform height GTZZ16EJ electric articulating boom. It includes a platform capacity of 230kg, with a maximum horizontal reach of 9.37m and a working height of 17.8m. The unit has a top speed of 5.2km/h and 40% gradeability, with a disc brake system to reduce slide. Visit: www.boomliftchinese.com Sinoboom was set to launch (at time of going to press) three new products at APEX Asia, the aerial platform exhibition to be held 31 October to 3 November this year in Shanghai. Since 2014 Mitch has been National Operations Manager for Genie Australia, based in Brisbane. Mitch spent almost six years in the Australian access rental industry with his own start up business, Platform Solutions in 2008, before moving to rental company Skyreach in 2012 and then returning to Genie. He originally joined Genie in 1998 and Genie USA posting for long-term industry member Mitch Ely Genie has appointed Mitch Ely, as Director Customer Satisfaction and Reconditioning in the USA. over the following 10 years became involved in most aspects of the business as National Operations Manager. He has also served in a number of roles within Australia’s Elevating Work Platform Association and was most recently National Vice President. In his new role in the US Mitch will be based at Genie headquarters in Redmond, Washington, reporting to Senior Director of Product Support and Service Solutions, Bob Bartley. The new role will consist of responsibility for the Genie customer satisfaction program as well as the reconditioning, used sales and service training teams. Visit: www.genie.com.au ACCESS in ACTION The Bravi Sprint in the winery Sinoboom has launched new models