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Choosing a tire conveyor can be a daunting experience. But we are here to help you with this task, and by doing so, make your life easier.

In essence, the best tire conveyor is not that which fits your budget and works fine for you, even though that’s important. The best tire conveyor is one that is designed to solve your problems in the present but also be able to solve the problems in the future.

In this article, we will cover how you can choose a tire conveyor using forward-thinking considerations. And by doing so, you will avoid the common pitfalls of those who didn’t think before buying.

Whenever you’re ready to prepare your business for the integration of a valuable conveyor, keep reading.

On Tire Conveyors

Way too often, a tire conveyor is thought of as a non-valuable simple piece of technology. With this illusioned mindset, the conveyor’s installation, upgrades, and advancement happen to be at the bottom of decision-related positions.

A well-developed conveyor system is more than a valuable asset. Proper selection is essential to remaining competitive in your market. Conveyors are often referred to as the arteries of any workflow. And this is true if you look at their value and physical features.

Tire Conveyors are not simple, they are complex. To realize their maximum efficiency, they need to be subject to design and budget consideration. Conveyors when compiled together with advanced technologies, such as pick-to-light can reduce operator errors by almost 100%.

Using tire conveyors as buffer accumulators can only happen by queuing product, which allows the system downstream to execute at peak capacity while other system parts buffer down.

Whether your facility needs to improve its safety and health standards, its throughput, improve accuracy, or decrease damages, a tire conveyor system can help achieve this. 

But that’s only if its design and budget of the machine are appropriate for the use that you require.

Accommodate Environment

One of the most important things to think about when choosing a tire conveyor is the environment. Is it humid enough to cause rust or any other issues? Will the room be cold enough to thicken lubricant? Is it dusty that puts more wear on sprockets, gears, and chains?

At any point, a single system might have to go through more than a single type of environmental hazard. For instance, in tire handling, conveyors might experience astringent chemical washdown, daily conveyor disassembly, extreme heat, and much more.

Even in otherwise sterile environments, the loads on their own can become considerations for the environment. For example, can puncture, bottles break, metal shavings have oil residue, or even have magnetization.

Another thing to consider is how the product will move throughout the various environments.

Conveyors that handle tires to move them from one level to another will have different requirements for each conveyor and what it can handle. Moving between various completion zones brings about a new degree of difficulty.

Material Considerations

Consider the product types that will be moved on your conveyors besides tires. Heavy flat bottomed boxes? Packaging containers? Fragile parts? Bulk materials come with their own set of considerations, such as abrasiveness, moisture contents, flowability.

Conveyors need to move to a variety of items. In these instances, considering limiting factors is critical. What are the largest and smallest, lightest and heaviest, and extremely fragile items?

Finding a solution to handle the extremes of your workflow will bring your tire conveyor list down. For example, friable or fragile items will not hold up to starts, and sudden stops. 

Thus, the way the loads will handle the flow and speeds of the conveyor system should be considered. In any case, motors can be tuned to execute soft starts. Accumulation can be set to zero-pressure, low pressure, zero-contact, and much more.

Footprint, Scalability, Modularity

One of the primary disadvantages of typical conveyor systems is their footprint. Especially when you put them against AGVs, which can work with existing floor plans of the warehouse, conveyors usually block throughways and take up lots of space.

This concern is superficially true when conveyors are purchased from a manufacturer directly. Manufacturers do provide great products, but they are limited in their offerings. 

At the same time, manufacturers are most likely unable to offer tire conveyors that can scale with the growth of your operation. At EZ Lift, our conveyors are both scalable and modular. This means you can start with a small system and scale up to meet your needs.

As your business continues to grow, the module can be scaled up or reconfigured so that it becomes part of your greater solution. By doing so, your initial investment is not lost. 

Process And Demand

Next, you need to consider the demand and process of your workflow. How many hours is the system operating daily, how many days per week? What are your work cycles? How much material is being moved?

Regular starts and stops mean motors have to be robust. This also means, cycling down the unused systems will decrease your bills and work better with consumer demands of the green enterprise.

Gravity can also serve as a power source. Simple skate-wheel or chute conveyors can be declined, and they come to be very energy-efficient and cost-effective.

Goal Setting

Goals are very important in business. When we talk about goals, we think of two things. 

First, we want to understand your immediate needs for the system. But also, we need to understand your broad growth goals that are related to the lifespan of the entire system. 

For instance, if you hope to add a new line of tires, then planning for the new product demands within the system is critical to realizing your return on investment. Developing a system that can meet your future and current needs will mean that you don’t have to replace or redesign in the future.

Your Conveyor, Your Choice

Now that you know how to choose a tire conveyor, you are that much closer to actually getting one. However, it can still seem to be a very distant reality. 

If that’s the case, let us help. Let us bring this distant reality a bit closer. If you’re interested in a variety of floor-to-floor conveyors, get in touch with us and we will happily accommodate your needs.

When it comes to moving material from one location to another, there are plenty of solutions on the market, but one you need to look at is the E-ZLIFT.

This slider conveyor comes in many sizes and widths.

We have listed the top 10 uses people are saving time and money by having our sliders do the task. No matter what size your business or projects are, we have a model that will suit your needs.

The rubber top covered conveyor belt is suited for rough applications like handling dirt, rock, gravel, and small rubble.   The combination slider bed with center point load carrying steel Idler Rollers reduce material build-up inside of the conveyor frame and minimize down time for cleanout and maintenance.   The steel Idler Rollers have precision sealed bearings for long wear life.

Here is the top 10 uses for a Troughing-Slider

1. Dirt – No matter if you are digging out a basement or going up a level or two, the Troughing-Slider is designed to handle your task and save on the labor and back-breaking work of moving buckets upon buckets of dirt up and out.

 2. Gravel – If you are pouring gravel into a yard or landscaped area, you know the dump truck can only go so far, but with the Troughing-Slider on your side, you can move gravel fast and easy. No more wheel barrels to move little by little. Line the slider in the direction you want the stone to travel and start loading. 

3. Sand – Sand might not seem too heavy, but a cubic yard of typical sand weighs just about 2700 pounds or 1.35 tons. Now imagine if you had to move 5-10 yards of sand. Also, imagine how much time and people you will need to place all that sand.

 4. Concrete – When you are breaking up concrete, and you have a ways to go to reach the dump truck, you can bust it out, put it on the conveyor right next to you, and you’re done. The Troughing-Slider can carry it and dump it into the truck for you with easy.

 5. Coal – Coal typically weighs between 80 – 85 pounds per cubic foot. Often, the trucks can’t get right where you want to dump the coal. In cases like this, it would be nice to have a Troughing-Slider that can point the coal in the direction you want.

 6. Firewood – When it comes to stuff like firewood or other wood types, you would want to use something like the Troughing-Slider to handle your work as some chunks of wood can weigh over a hundred pounds. There is no need to cut the wood down into smaller sizes with the slider so people can carry it. Just place it on the belt, and away it goes.

 7. Rolls – Work smarter, not harder, is the motto. Even with something as simple as rolls that might not weigh as much as you think, the problem is when you go up. If you have to go up 2-3 flights of stairs, it can get tiring very quickly.

 8. Roofing – For roofing companies who do repairs, there is no faster way to get all your material and supplies up to two to three stories faster than the Troughing Slider. Using this, you can expect to save hours of labor and wear and tear on the body. You can load anything from shingles, tar, tools, and more.

 9. Cartons – No matter if you are on an assembly line or a package sorting line, the Troughing-Slider works great to move your cartons down the pathway. Now your employees can be spaced out enough to do the job and pull the packages off at the right location as it travels down the beltway.

 10. Sludges and Industrial Application – Whether your application is handling dewatered sewer sludge, handling of water treatment filtration media, collection of sand-blasting grit, muck handling, the E-ZLIFT Troughing-Slider Conveyor is the best general utility conveyor on the market for the unanticipated and vast assortment of applications that come up in industrial application.

No matter what job you have, if you are responsible for moving material from one location to another and care about saving time and money and having fewer injuries on the job, you need to invest in a Troughing-Slider.

There are three main advantages to using a slider,

 1. Save Time – no more employees moving by buckets, stairs, or wheel barrels.

 2. Labor Cost – Fewer steps a person takes means fewer hours and less being paid in wages.

 3. Fewer Accidents – Every workplace wants to avoid Workman’s comp claims, and the less lifting of heavy material your employees have to do, the better it will be for lowering the rate of accidents.

These units come from various sizes, ranging from 12 ft up to 36 ft. lengths and different belt widths. They can also overlap; for example, if you are going 60 feet, you can use one and then have the material push onto the 2nd to finish the journey.

Renting A Troughing-Slider

If you have a one-off project or don’t feel you have enough projects to own one of these fantastic sliders, you can rent one for the day, week, or month.

Main features include:

• Heavy-duty 2 ply rubber covered belt with 2″ high cleats on 48″ centers
• Combination slider/roller bed
• 7/8″ O.D. high strength steel tubing for 12′ & 16′ models, 1-1/4″ O.D. on 21′ through 36′ models
• 15″ Frame height
• Approximate 140 FPM belt speed
• Conveyor belt take-up adjustments
• Self-cleaning drive and idler belt pulleys
• Drive mounted within conveyor frame at the discharge end
• Custom Baldor electric motor with inline speed reducer for high torque efficiency
• Roller chain and sprocket driven drive pulley
• Operating, maintenance, and safety instructions