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Hi,
I'm looking for a bit of advice. I'm currently looking after one of our locations and somebody in the past has put various items on the top level of racking, all the way to the back of the racking. The goods were, I suspect, handballed on and access to the racking was gained by a set of mobile stairs - they would have had to climb over the railing or climb up the racking to gain access to the deck.
I'm at a loss of how best to remove the goods without hiring some form of MEWP. The racking backs onto a wall, the tallest set of mobile stairs only just allows you to pick stock from the front of the deck without climbing on the railing. We're trying to offload that stock in the next few weeks, and I'm concerned the staff here will climb on there to remove it when I'm not here. Does anybody have any idea how to access the stock? We've thought of maybe lassoing it or using a pole but some of it is stacked high and probably too heavy to do that.
Cheers, Luke
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It sounds as though that a day's hire for a MEWP would be the way to go as based on what you've explained so far, the options have got disaster written all over them... :)
A day's hire for a MEWP and Operator isn't that expensive in the great scheme of things, (sub £500), and all your problems are solved.. until someone stacks them up again when you're not there.
Good luck
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Once you have solved the issue of retrieving the stock, if possible, remove the decks between the racking beams on the top level - prevent reccurrence.
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Hi Luke I am not sure that simply getting in a MEWP will give you the answer - even an order picker may have problems giving access to the rear of the racking - probably why racking is often erected with aisles on BOTH sides. So, the probability is that whatever access to the top of the racking there is likely to be a need to then provide safe access to the rear. In an ideal world you would have a safe walkway within the racking but that probably isn't the case, so then about thinking about providing a safe working platform within the racking and/or fall arrest unless you go for some out of box solution such as removing the roof and craning the load out. But, I think as a starting point you need to know what the load to be removed consists of and whether it could safely broken down into more manageable weights.sizes. ...and you probably need some information to confirm that the racking is designed for whatever loadings are applied to enable the removal of this load. May be the starting point is guidance from the Storage Equipment Manufacturers Association and perhaps input from a specialist in the topic.
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