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Gradall Forklift Parts
Gradall Forklift Parts - All through the period when World War II created a shortage of laborers, the well-known Gradall excavator was born in the 1940s as the brainchild of two brothers Ray and Koop Ferwerda. The brothers faced the problems of a depleted workforce because of the war. As partners in their Cleveland, Ohio construction company known as Ferwerda-Werba-Ferwerda they lacked the existing workers to be able to do the delicate work of finishing and grading on their highway projects. The Ferwerda brothers decided to build an equipment that will save their company by making the slope grading job less manual, easier and more efficient.
The very first excavator prototype consisted of a machine with two industrial beams on a rotating platform fixed to a used truck. There was a telescopic cylinder that was used to move the beams backward and forward. This allowed the fixed blade at the far end of the beams to push or pull the dirt. Shortly improving the first design, the brothers made a triangular boom in order to add more strength. Furthermore, they added a tilt cylinder that let the boom turn 45 degrees in both directions. A cylinder was positioned at the rear of the boom, powering a long push rod to allow the machine to be equipped with either a blade or a bucket attachment.
1992 marked a momentous year for Gradall with their introduction of XL Series hydraulics, the most amazing change in the company's excavators ever since their invention. These top-of-the-line hydraulics systems enabled Gradall excavators to provide high productivity and comparable power on a realistic level to conventional excavators. The XL Series put an end to the first Gradall equipment power drawn from gear pumps and low pressure hydraulics. These conventional systems successfully handled finishing work and grading but had a hard time competing for high productivity tasks.
Gradall's new XL Series excavators showed more ability to dig and lift materials. With this series, the models were produced with a piston pump, high-pressure system of hydraulics that showed marked improvement in boom and bucket breakout forces. The XL Series hydraulics system was likewise developed together with a load-sensing capability. Traditional excavators use an operator to select a working-mode; where the Gradall system could automatically adjust the hydraulic power meant for the work at hand. This makes the operator's whole job easier and also saves fuel simultaneously.
As soon as the new XL Series hydraulics reached the market, Gradall was thrust into the vastly competitive industrial machine market which are designed to tackle pavement removal, excavating, demolition as well as other industrial tasks. The introduction of the new telescoping boom helped to further improve the excavator's marketability. The telescoping boom gives the excavator the ability to better position attachments and to work in low overhead areas.
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