As Much of Your Hose as Close to Your Cut-Off Saw as Possible.
This is the principle which directs the BAC team when we help customers layout their hose-making workshop. Through this principle, much efficiency can be gained and output can increase.
BAC Systems offers a unique range of storage modules for uncut hydraulic hose. Our systems our high-density, designed to compress as much useful hydraulic hose into a very small footprint. While squeezing the hose into a small space, the BAC Range, by no means, restricts your ability to access your hose but, rather, makes drawing out your hose, and replacing it after your cut, the most simple of operations.
The BAC Hose Reel Module is a free-standing module with a small footprint of 1310mm x 755mm (4.3' x 2.5'). Upon this small footprint one can store between 6 and 9 large reels of hose, depending upon the size of the spool. Hoses are stored on a pair of conveyor rollers, allowing for the smoothest draw, and an equally smooth rewind, for your most common small-diameter hose on a reel. A pair of average-sized workers can lift a new reel onto the roller set, or you can use a forklift or crane to easily lift the reel up to the loading height. Once the reel is empty, you simply lift out the completed spool by hand. If you position the BAC Hose Reel Module near to your cut-off saw, then you can easily feed your hose directly into the cut-off saw from storage module - it could not be more simple.
Similarly simple is the BAC Hose Drawer. A Hose Module comes with seven hose drawers and each hose drawer is fitted with its own hose table which rotates to help you unwind hoses. The BAC Hose Drawer is best suited for ~15m (50') lengths of hose which manufacturers supply as a flat coil. You can sit the coil onto the turntable and then cut the straps, and the drawer is ready to use. You can place the Hose Module, with 7 Hose Drawers, right near to your cut-off saw and you will find it is extremely easy to feed the hose from the hose drawer into your saw, and just as easy to rewind it.
Finally, if you have a range of large NB hoses supplied in bundles, these can be stored with high density in the BAC Hose Shelving. Hoses, coiled into bundles, are stood on their edge and placed in one of the many vertical slots within the module. These cabinets can be easy to place very near to the cut-off saw and, while you can't feed these large bundles straight from the module into the saw, BAC also provides a mobile turntable that can cart the hoses from the module to the saw, and then allow you to uncoil only as much hose as you need into the saw. You simply then retie the hose bundle, which is still sitting tidily on the turntable, and wheel it back to its storage location.
The benefits of such high density storage are easy to see. Your hose storage is compressed onto a smaller footprint. Your hoses are able to be stored closer to the point of use. You save both floor space and time with this modular Hose Storage system. You rarely need to use a forklift, you don't have to leave your hose shop to get to your uncut hose and the hose set-up time is significantly faster, especially if you incorporate a BAC Hose Making Workbench, with a hose measuring channel, hose saw table and thousands of fittings locations in drawers beneath the workbench.
At BAC Systems, we have many Hose Workshop Bundles available to help you select those items you need to furnish a new hose-making workshop.
To find out more about how BAC Systems can improve the efficiency of your hose workshop, please contact:
Australia and New Zealand
Bob Griffin
+61407 488 634
robert.griffin@bacsystems.com.au
United States of America
Jim Burns
+1 406 671 9899
jburns@nwisupply.com
You can also download our Red Catalogue (Hose Storage Solutions begin on page C 1.19) from this page.
Alternatively, you can view further details on our website by clicking this link.
