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 Peoria, IL: Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. (PHIL) launched its new patent pending Body Lifting System with its inclusion in a HiVol® Body designed for a Cat 797B haul truck. Safety is paramount in life and in business; to that end, the engineers at PHIL have invented a safer alternative to the standard lifting points traditionally built into the sides of off-highway truck bodies in a way that is certain to revolutionize industry-wide design. The end result: a simple, safe process that will not weaken body components over time, provides structural benefits, requires minimal maintenance and takes less time end effort during the rigging processes.
The company stated: “Safety is involved in every product sold, engineered and manufactured by PHIL, so when we see an opportunity to improve upon an industry best-practice, we take advantage of the opportunity and do our best to innovate – not for the sake of innovation, but as a mission to improve upon a practice that can be done safer, easier, at less cost and effort to the end user. This past winter, as we were custom designing a truck body for a Cat 797B chassis for a client in Canada, the thought struck us: ‘why are end users having to weld temporary lifting eyes on the inside of their bodies when they need to put them on or take them off the chassis?’ From a safety standpoint, it’s common knowledge that lifting holes in body sides can become fatigued over time, depending on whether or not a shovel has hit them accidentally or other trauma have occurred.”
In working on this problem, PHIL came up with a solution that allows an end user to place removable ‘Lifting Eyes’ through the floor structure of the body, attach a shackle and lift the body from the interior, thus reducing overhead height clearance required when putting on or removing a box from the truck. The Lifting Eye is keyed into the floor structure in such a way that similar fatigue as experienced from the side lifting holes would not be present after even a considerable amount of time and multiple uses, thereby allowing this mechanism to be a safe alternative for lifting the body throughout its life. The decision has also been made within Philippi-Hagenbuch that all future bodies designed and built for trucks of 100 short tons capacity and greater will receive the new Body Lifting System as a standard, no charge option.
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