A long time John Deere dealer located in the Northeast carries a full line of lawn and garden equipment, commercial mowing equipment, and light industrial and agricultural equipment. In addition to selling these products, the location also operates a maintenance and repair shop. The shop works on transmissions and motor decks, and does a lot of tire mountings for large commercial or farm tractors.<\/p>\n
Some of the common maintenance tasks performed on the tractors require repeated heavy lifting. One job might involve installing front-loading buckets or large calcium filled tractor tires that can weigh as much as 800 pounds. The shop manager attempted to resolve the problem by mounting an I-beam on the wall. In combination with a hoist, the setup functioned as a jib crane. This required workers to move the tractor they were servicing over to the makeshift jib crane. While it helped to alleviate the problem for a short time, workers eventually began to complain that the process was becoming cumbersome and ineffective. In addition, the shop was quickly running out of space. Trying to change out a large tire or install a bucket in such a small work area was difficult and time consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1581,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1580","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n