Rotating Dollies

The rotating dollies are made to maneuver heavy loads in confined spaces. The rollers swivel individually 360 degrees. This gives the dolly omni-directional maneuverability and also lets you turn the load in place. This maneuverability lets you move a heavy load that is on dollies down a narrow corridor and turn around a tight 90 degree turn.

The dollies have a low profile so the load and equipment stays very close to the ground, providing more safety and low head clearance. The smaller load dollies come with a single roller per swiveling foot. The rollers change direction easily, even under maximum load weight. Heavier loads exert such high pressure onto the rollers that traditional rollers have a difficult time turning into a new direction. Crow bars often have to be used to turn the rollers.

Our specially designed dollies are always easy to move. For heavier loads, our larger dollies are outfitted with double rollers. Unlike a traditional wide roller, our double rollers can turn in opposite directions when spinning in place. They can rotate on one spot. This eliminates the opposing friction forces and makes for easy turning.

To aid the easy turning, our specially formulated JUWAmid is a roller material with slick turning characteristics that reduces the “rubber effect” friction when spinning in place. The rollers are mounted in rotating cassettes which lead the rollers into the turn. This “follow-behind” design assists for easy turning of heavy weights.

The rollers will also not damage or mark floors, even on tile or sensitive epoxy. A pulling handle or a connecting bar can be attached to the dolly via its side arm. These pulling handles and connecting bars are sold as optional accessories, but please note:

• The pulling handle locks in a straight position and cannot be used to turn.
• It can only pull the load in a straight line.
• The connecting bar (which connects two dollies together) is used for a 4 dolly configuration.
• It will drag along any dolly that has lost contact with the load due to a recess in the ground. In most applications, the dollies are used without handles and connecting bars.

If you are using 4 dollies or more and are worried about slippage, the larger dollies come with a center hole in each loading pad which allows you to use a holding bracket or tie down rope to affix the dolly to the load. As discussed in the “3-point vs. 4-point support” slide show, the safest, most efficient transport configuration consists of a 3-point dolly support.

The weight of the load presses down on each dolly at all times in a 3-point system. This will prevent the dollies from slipping – even on uneven ground.