At Danilift A/S we are always up to the task of creating custom builds whenever the customer has a special need. This means that we can add special features to our standard platforms or modify them.
We frequently create standard solutions which have been specially modified for all kinds of purposes. Our expertise is especially great when it comes to hydraulics, electrical soutions, platform booms and general platform constructions, so in these fields we will go to unusually great lengths to make our customers' wishes come true.
Below you can learn more about some of the custom builds made by Danilift over the years.
We also lift under ground! In 2022, another exciting project from Danilift has seen the light of day—or perhaps we should say the darkness of the mine. This unit stands out from our other custom builds on several accounts, but the biggest one is that the radar lift, named DFR600, doesn't have a work platform for lifting persons. Instead, the boom is designed to raise and lower two GSSI Ground Penetrating Radar boxes that collect valuable data, which is used for exploring minerals, planning expansions and detecting hazards, among other things.
Another account on which the DFR600 is unique is that it is mounted on a Jeep Wrangler, unlike the vans and chassis that we usually work with.
Furthermore, the radar lift is quite special in the sense that, just like our mining platform P110V, it is completely disassembled and delivered to the customer as an assembly kit, so that it can be transported into the mine.
While our main business is still in the air, we suspect that the future might hold more underground Danilift products.
An electric power plant found that they were doing double the necessary work, and they needed a better solution. When they were out on the road with their platform and spotted a leaning streetlight post, they had to contact the power plant head quarters and ask them to send out a different service vehicle to straighten the streetlight post, as they did not have the proper equipment to do the task themselves.
For this reason, we created a custom platform for the power plant on which we mounted a hydraulic alignment unit. This meant that the platform operators themselves would be able to align the streetlight post straight immediately, saving both time and manpower.
At Copenhagen Airport, we have mounted scissor lifts on airport vehicles, which are used to service the airplanes amongst various other jobs.
We developed a special unit for tunnel inspections for a customer in Norway. In place of the cage, we mounted a cabin with a small crane on the vehicle.
A rotary hammer and a cleaning unit using air pressure and water were mounted on the crane. The operator could then control the vehicle from the cabin, driving back and forth and turning the vehicle while operating the other platform functions, such as the little crane and the cleaning unit, all at the same time.
In order for you to understand just how useful this custom build is, let us tell you about the previous method used for washing and inspecting tunnels:
Two men would be lifted up under the roof of the tunnel on a regular scissor lift. They would be equipped with iron rods which were used to hit the roof of the tunnel, in order to check for the sound of holes behind the outer layer of rock. If the rocks were too loose, they would of course fall down, creating an extremely dangerous work environment. To this day, this dangerous procedure is still used in several places in Norway.
Danilift's custom build has helped make tunnel inspections much more quick and consistent, and it provides a much better and safer work environment.
If your company is facing a task that calls for a special solution, do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We will do everything we can to meet your platform needs.
