There are many situations where businesses may find themselves needing to support substantial weight. At Atlas Winch Hire & Hoist Services, we offer useful equipment known as air winches, which are excellent for helping companies and customers easily lift heavy loads.
Air Winch Options
Air Winch Hire: The Benefits
Using a pneumatic motor, air winches can lift incredible loads. Effectively, air winches utilise radical pistons and compressed air to rotate drums which, in turn, pull the winch. Due to the immense power exerted by this method, an air winch can lift and lower large attached loads.
- Simple, robust and reliable
- Suitable for a range of hazardous and difficult environments
- Variable speed control allows a slow creep to full-speed
- No unlimited duty cycle
- Easy to service, maintain and repair
- Capacities up to 10,000kg
- Manual braked tuggers
- Automatic brakes for lifting
- Man-riding winches
AIR WINCH APPLICATIONS
As an established and trusted air winch supplier, we have a wide selection of air winches available for hire. Starting with smaller, portable models capable of lifting 150kg loads, we’re even able to supply winches with capacities of up to 10 tonnes temporarily. Due to the versatility of our range, we can offer air winches suitable for a huge range of applications, designed to meet your portability requirements at all times. Our range is capable of, but not limited to:
- Offshore and rig installations
- Marine and shipping applications
- 4,6 & 8 point mooring systems
- Oil & gas hazardous environment applications
- Additional uses, featured within our case studies
There are numerous practical applications for air winches, from mooring and installations to operation within hazardous environments, the versatility of portable air winches even means that heavy loads can be lifted in almost any scenario. Interested? Below are the specifications of the air winches we currently have available.
Which Air Winches Do We Have Available?
150kg to 1500kg Air Winch
We stock a range of compact air winches ranging from 150kg up to 1500kg for both lifting and pulling applications. These winches can hold up to 160m of wire rope.
2 Tonne Air Winch
- Dimensions – 1250 x 610 x 722
- Rated Capacity – Top Layer 2T
- Gross Weight – 386kg
- Rope Capacity – 430m x 13mm
- Drum Size – 12” or 24”
- Option – Man Riding
2.5 Tonne Air Winch
- Dimensions – 1392 x 610 x 839
- Rated Capacity – Top Layer 2.27T
- Gross Weight – 481kg
- Rope Capacity – 255m x 16mm
- Option – Man Riding
5 Tonne Air Winch
- Dimensions – 1742 x 889 x 928
- Rated Capacity – Top Layer 5T
- Gross Weight – 849kg
- Rope Capacity – 410m x 19mm
10 Tonne Air Winch
- Dimensions – 1615 x 1179 x 1213
- Rated Capacity – Top Layer 10T
- Gross Weight – 1451kg
- Rope Capacity – 377m x 28mm