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Gradall Forklift Part
Gradall Forklift Part - During the time when WWII caused a scarcity of workers, the famous Gradall excavator was born in the 1940s as the creation of two brothers Koop and Ray Ferwerda. The brothers faced the problems of a depleted workforce because of the war. As partners in their Cleveland, Ohio construction company referred to as Ferwerda-Werba-Ferwerda they lacked the available workers so as to perform the delicate job of grading and finishing on their freeway projects. The Ferwerda brothers decided to build an equipment that would save their company by making the slope grading work easier, more efficient and less manual.
The initial excavator prototype consisted of a machine with two industrial beams on a rotating platform fixed to a second-hand truck. There was a telescopic cylinder which was used to move the beams backward and forward. This allowed the fixed blade at the far end of the beams to pull or push the dirt. Shortly improving the first design, the brothers built a triangular boom in order to add more strength. Moreover, they added a tilt cylinder that let the boom rotate 45 degrees in both directions. A cylinder was positioned at the back of the boom, powering a long push rod to allow the machine to be equipped with either a bucket or a blade attachment.
1992 marked a momentous year for Gradall with their introduction of XL Series hydraulics, the most remarkable change in the company's excavators ever since their creation. These top-of-the-line hydraulics systems allowed Gradall excavators to provide comparable power and high productivity on a realistic level to conventional excavators. The XL Series put an end to the initial Gradall equipment power drawn from gear pumps and low pressure hydraulics. These conventional systems efficiently handled finishing work and grading but had a hard time competing for high productivity work.
The new XL Series Gradall excavators proved a remarkable increase in their lifting and digging ability. These versions were made together with a piston pump, high-pressure hydraulics system that showed immense improvements in boom and bucket breakout forces. The XL Series hydraulics system was also developed with a load-sensing capability. Conventional excavators use an operator to select a working-mode; where the Gradall system could automatically adjust the hydraulic power meant for the job at hand. This makes the operator's whole work easier and likewise saves fuel simultaneously.
When the new XL Series hydraulics reached the market, Gradall was thrust into the vastly competitive industrial machine market that are meant to deal with excavating, demolition, pavement removal as well as other industrial tasks. The introduction of the new telescoping boom helped to further improve the excavator's marketability. The telescoping boom gives the excavator the ability to better position attachments and to work in low overhead areas.
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