Enerpac, headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, has delivered a new lifting system for safer excavator maintenance, the Enerpac Cube Jack Lifting System.
Enerpac is a division of the Enerpac Tool Group, a $1.5 billion diversified global manufacturing company of industrial tools. Enerpac is a hydraulic industrial tool specialist.
During maintenance of the excavator’s swing drive and bearings, the undercarriage unit must be separated from the upper body cab and arm to give access to the swing motor and multiple sets of planetary gears.
Based on the Enerpac SCJ-Series Cube Jacks, the Enerpac Cube Jack Lifting System enables lifting and holding of the entire cab, boom, and arm, allowing the undercarriage to be safely removed.
Until now, this would have involved at least two service engineers jacking up the body and holding it on stands, a time-consuming and hazardous practice. The Enerpac Cube Jack Lifting System offers a safer, CE-certified approach to removing the undercarriage.
It comprises two pairs of cube jacks, providing coordinated hydraulic lifting of loads up to 25 tons per jack to a height of 6.5 feet.
Two cube jacks are positioned under a lifting beam at the rear of the excavator, while two cube jacks are located under the arm’s bucket lugs. Each pair of cube jacks is connected to a hydraulic pump to synchronously lift and lower the excavator body and arm.
“The excavator lifting system has been developed in collaboration with a leading excavator maintenance company looking for a safer CE-certified approach to removing the undercarriage. It automatically self-locks so that engineers can work safely under the raised cab without the need for secondary jack stands,” said an Enerpac spokesperson via press release. ‘It has been well received, especially for its safety, secure load holding, precision lifting and lowering, and quick and easy set-up, which make it attractive to users and customers alike.”
Enerpac cube jack technology is well-proven in many industrial lifting applications. The SCJ-Series Cube Jacks use a base lifting frame and self-aligning, lightweight steel cribbing blocks to provide high-capacity and stabilized lifting, offering a safer, more controlled, and more efficient alternative to climbing jacks with wooden cribbing.
Lloyds witness-tested to 125 percent of the maximum working load, the incremental cube jack lifting system is self-locking to support the load as each cribbing block is manually added or removed instead of being held by hydraulic pressure. Once the mechanical lock engages, the lift cylinder retracts, and another cribbing block can be added or removed.
As a leading innovator with a 110-year legacy, Enerpac has helped move and maintain some of the largest structures on Earth. When safety and precision matter, elite professionals in industries such as aerospace, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and power generation rely on Enerpac for quality tools, services, and solutions.
To learn more about the Enerpac Cube Jack Lifting System and find a local distributor, visit www.enerpac.com.