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HOW to Choose The Right Suspension Lift Kit

Still can decide what suspension lift kit would look best on your vehicle? Suspension Lift Kits 4You is here to give you the best options - top brands suspension lifts brands like Skyjacker, Pro Comp, Calmini, Fabtech, Cage, Superlift and other popular names in automobile industry. We have the most innovative lift kits for trucks, SUVs and jeeps. Our experienced staff in handling auto accessories is always willing to help you with your needs. Since we only carry branded products, you can be certain that every suspension kit you purchase is manufactured with the toughest components, plus detailed workmanship.  
 
Whether for hitting the dirt or street driving, we certainly have the most fitting suspension kit for your vehicle. By having a lift on your truck or SUV, you are able to place bigger off-road tires. Also, most of our suspension kits have been known to produce champions in the world of extreme car sports. This fact is already a clue that our wide assortment of suspension lift kits provides longevity and optimum performance. Aside from improving the capability, the new height brought by our truck suspension systems and SUV lift kits will bring a major difference in the look of your favorite ride.  
 
Nobody knows suspension better than Suspension Lift Kits 4You. Our company is run by car enthusiasts, for car enthusiasts. We are dedicated in delivering revolutionary truck suspension systems and lift kits with the assurance of getting only genuine parts and accessories. Each product we offer is precision-engineered and tested first by the manufacturer to ensure suspension reliability and high quality. Indeed, we have set a new standard for on and off-road performance by presenting to you our rugged and powerful collection of suspension lift kits.  
 
If you don know what kind of suspension is best for your vehicle, please give us a call at your most convenient time. We have fully trained representatives who are very pleased to offer help if you get into a tight spot with our offered products. Best of all, you can have your preferred lift kit at the most reasonable price. So, buy one of our suspension lift kits today and experience safe and smooth ride while providing your vehicle with a new height and level of performance.

HOW to Choose The Right Suspension Lift Kit

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Bike Racks for Your Trucks

Bike racks are one of the most important and economical add-ons to trucks and pickups. This one of the most necessary accessories for trucks has the capacity to carry and transfer different things from one place to another without a sweat. Saving you from high-priced moving truck rentals, this truck utility rack is all you need to transport your things just in time you needed it most! 
 
As known to motorists, trucks and pickups are automotive vehicles specifically designed for transporting goods. This type of vehicle was built using larger and heavier parts that makes it exceptional for carrying various loads. However, most truck beds have a smaller or limited space to accommodate things in volume. Therefore, a truck rack or pick up rack is needed to fill up that limitation. 
 
At Bike-Racks-4You.com, we know that protecting heavy loads and other stuff while traveling can be tedious and stressful. In line with this, we offer a wide option of truck and pick up utility racks that can help in transporting your valuables. Our featured bike racks and utility racks include T-Rac, T-Rac Pro, Ladder Racks, Pre-Runner, Quick Rack, as well as Sports Bars and Racks. 
 
Premium and superior designed of truck racks are available for grab at our online shop today. We have exceptionally constructed bike racks and pickup racks that can securely carry all your valuables. We have racks for ladders, lumber and other utility racks made by the industry well-known manufacturers such as Waag, TracRac, Go Rhino and Manik. 
 
The truck racks or bike racks are also designed for people with sports and crafts inclination who always carry loads of up to 500 lbs. This great storage extension on trucks is just ideal for canoe rack, kayak rack and pipe rack, etc. And because of its versatility, it can certainly handle any type of load. Whether your stuff is long, short, diminutive, huge, and feathery or heavy, you can rely on this utility rack for a better and safer travel. 
 
If you want to know more about our featured pickup racks and utility truck racks, we recommend that you browse our product pages. Our online shop features an easy-to-navigate design for you to easily find the kind of rack that fit your needs. We have separate pages where you can shop according to your preferred brand or your truck make and model. In this way, we can cut off your searching time so youl have more time to do other important things.

Bike Racks for Your Trucks

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Excavator is very useful for the poeple who need it

There can be no less stirring site for someone in the building industry than a giant excavator and its operator working in tandem on a large digging project. 
 
 Apart from shovels of JCB excavator have a single task that they are required to do and that is one that they do so well. They dig holes, trenches either for pipe laying or for foundations. Excavators come in a lot of sizes and colors but the basic design remains fairly standard. The operators?cabin, which can be closed or open depending on the season, sits on a kind of rotating platform known in the industry as a pivot,  
 
The pivot houses the excavators bucket that is mounted on a large articulated arm. The actual arm is a piece of hydraulics mastery and is capable if lifting and shift copious quantities of earth and very large and heavy rocks and boulders when using on a digging project. In most version of the excavator, the platform is mounted on tracks instead of wheels.  
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This has the definite advantage of increasing the excavator stability. However the disadvantage is that the excavator can never be transported on the open road, and has to be delivered everywhere, usually on the back of a low loader. Many excavator owner or operators have their own truck which they use to transport the excavator from site to site, contract to contract without the need for involving anyone else in the excavator transportation.  
 
Excavators can also be used in demolition, in the open field mining industry, dredging rivers and lakes or in the landscaping gardening industry. However, most serious people in the construction industry will argue that the excavator is a bit of a pig in the poke unless used for digging. And dig it can and all day long. Built for comfort and not for speed, excavators can dig holes and trenches in every topographical situation. Stable and safe, a good excavator operator will play his machine like a fiddle and produce the best professional results.  
 
 The advantage of an excavator that, while its arm can work within a radius of 360 degrees, in most cases it will be required to work at 180 degrees only. In other words to dig a trench in a very straight line and at a standard depth. The excavator powerful arm will also be used to lift and lay heavy metal or concrete pipes or even on occasion electrical pipes into the trench without damaging them. 
 
 On these kinds of projects the excavator will usually work in partnership with a shovel, who will remove the earth that has been dug out, and fill in the trench with "padding materials, usually fine gravel to protect the pipes when they have been placed in the trench. 
 
Sometimes excavators can be used to discover an existing pipe that has been damaged or needs to be moved to another location. This is where the excavator operator skills can be really put to the test as they need to dig out the pipe without damaging it.  
 
This can be a slow and demanding task but one that the excavator comes into its own. Although there are JCB that can do the job, most contractors like to use excavators to dig foundations. The larger ones have power that leaves the JCB behind and for larger projects, bringing in an excavator have proved pretty cost effective.

Excavator is very useful for the poeple who need it

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Articulated front end loaders and a backhoe on the job site

Articulated front end loaders are designed from the ground up to deliver the highest productivity in materials handling. Their whole chassis is designed to give a clear view out the front and to maximize the loading capability by having weight out past the rear axle. Backhoes are commonly used on construction sites as they combine the versatility of a loader with an excavator. However by combining these tow functions a big compromise is taken and they aren't as efficient as a purpose built articulated loader for materials handling or an excavator for trenching. 
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 The recent take off of the front mounted hoe, designed to be used on articulated tool carriers has spread even more doubt about the usefulness of the backhoe on modern job sites. 
 
 The following article illustrates 6 points of difference between an articulated front end loader and a backhoe on the job site in material handling. 
 
 1. Maneuverability. Articulated front end loaders allow the operator to work in confined areas. Articulated steering is similar to having two very short machines attached together with a rod, so really you are operating a very short machine and the other chassis follows behind. Backhoes on the other hand have a rigid chassis and are no-where near as maneuverable as a modern articulated front end loader. This ability of articulated front end loaders to operate in confined areas allows you to gain access to places you couldn't with your backhoe. The higher utilization rate of articulated front end loaders pays off with less jobs having to be performed manually. The superior all around visibility in a compact articulated front end loader also makes productivity in confined areas much higher as the operator isn't constantly concerned about damage to buildings, machinery, personnel or animals constantly on the job site. In a backhoe the engine obscures a lot of vision at the front and the rear is obscured with a folded up excavator mast. 
 
 2. Steering under load. Articulated front end loaders utilize strong rams to pivot the whole front chassis which steers the vehicle in the required direction. The powerful steering is required because under load the centre of gravity shifts approximately 2/3 of the whole machine onto the front axle, making it heavy under load if the steering isn't suitable. Backhoe's however are a compromise between an excavator and a loader and are built on a tractor chassis, with a front mounted engine. Backhoes generally have big wheels at the back for stability when the excavator arm is in use. This type of chassis design is taken from agricultural tractors which are designed to tow - this is the reason the big wheels designed for heavy loads, are mounted at the back and the small wheels, which are easier to steer, are mounted at the front. When the loader bucket is filled, the backhoe's centre of gravity shifts onto the front wheels and axles and CV joints, making it hard to steer. The CV joints must be made extremely strong for this reason as they take a lot of punishment when front loading, really the chassis is not optimally designed for this role in the first place. Articulated front end loaders however have rigid axles so they don't have any CV joints to get damaged, when the centre of gravity shifts forwards when loading - the steering is controlled by articulating the whole front chassis. This is just another reason showing that articulated front end loaders are truly designed from scratch for loading, particularly in the long run when maintenance costs are taken into account.  
 
 3.Loading speed. Backhoes can be used on job sites for loading trucks, however when you load with a big backhoe you waste a lot of diesel compared to loading with an articulated front end loader that is designed for loading. To operating a backhoe you need a lot of space to get in the right position to load and then to dump into the truck. The truck must be parked much further away from the pile of material to be moved as the tractor has limited maneuverability. 
 On the other hand articulated front end loaders operate easily in very confined areas so they don't need to travel as far to dump and get in the right position to load again. This is due to the very tight steering angle - one of the greatest advantages of an articulated vehicle. The most efficient compact articulated front end loaders on the market now have articulation angles of 47 degrees. Smaller articulated front end loaders, generally under 1750kg, have articulation angles of 60 degrees as they don't incorporate a drive shaft so the articulation angle can be made much higher. 
 The high articulation angle of modern articulated front end loaders allows them to easily manoeuvre in tight areas with ease to load trucks a lot faster, saving a lot of time and diesel compared to using a backhoe. Many people believe that an articulated front end loader, only half the size of a backhoe, will still load a truck faster. If this is the case, then you are using half the diesel, making incredible day to day savings in time and money. 
 
 4.Low operating height. Some modern compact articulated front end loaders are built with very low operating heights. Backhoes however have very large rear wheels and are made incredibly wide to give stability for the excavating hoe. Compact articulated front end loaders are much narrower and allow access to more areas on a construction site. This low height and narrow width allows access into buildings and demolition sites for construction and removal of debris, giving a higher utilization rate for the owner.  
 The low height and relatively narrow width of articulated front end loaders when further coupled with the extremely tight turning circle gives even more accessibility in confined spaces. The low operating height also gives another benefit not realized at the beginning - the easy access for personnel to the cabin area means they get used constantly, for all jobs, as they are so convenient. Backhoes due to their large wheels at the back must have high cabin heights and constantly getting in and out can be chore, particularly for smaller tasks, so often the job is done by hand. Another advantage of the low height of compact articulated front end loaders is, when floating loaders from job to job, the total transport height is significantly lower and permits don't need to be obtained.  
 
 5.Centre of gravity. Articulated front end loaders are designed to maximize the efficiency of the weight they can lift at the front of the machine. The placement of counterweights and the longitudinal centre of gravity on an articulated front end loader, are designed completely differently to that of a backhoe. Articulated front end loaders incorporate weight, as far behind the rear axle as possibl, to make lifting at the front efficient. Significant weight as far out the back of the rear axle as practical, makes it possible to lift higher amounts at the front of the articulated front end loader due to the simple lever principle - the more counter weight out the back, the more effective it will be. Articulated front end loaders when unloaded have approximately 2/3 of the total machine weight resting on the rear axle, however when loaded the centre of gravity shifts to 2/3 of the total weight on the front axle.  
 Backhoe chassis on the other hand are built completely differently - one of the biggest differences being weight distribution - the engine is mounted at the front of the machine, as this style of chassis was originally designed for towing in agricultural use. The engine and a lot of counterweight is mounted at the front as the backhoe's excavator arm needs to be balanced on the backhoe. The longitudinal centre of gravity of a backhoe is closer to a 50/50 weight distribution on the front and rear axles. No matter how much weight is added to the backhoe, it will always be inefficient for front loading compared to an articulated front end loader due to the initial design of the backhoe. This means the tractor engine must shift a lot more weight when completing all loading tasks, creating more ground disturbance and compaction, greater tyre wear, axle wear and fuel consumption during loading.  
 
 6.View of front end when operating. Compact articulated front end loaders have a great view of the front end as this is where all the work occurs and the driver must have a great view if they are to perform work quickly and safely. The front chassis on an articulated front end loader is minimized in size and weight so maximum visibility is created for the driver. The mast is also designed to be as streamlined as possible so no interference occurs to the drivers view and anything else that could obstruct the view has been placed behind or underneath the driver eg. the engine.  
 The view from the front end of a backhoe is totally different - the forward mounted engine totally obscures the front working area so it is very difficult to see the working face and more guess work and less precise work is then performed with a backhoe compared to an articulated loader. Also the arms of the loader must be designed to go around the engine, making them bulkier and further obscuring the view.  
 
 I hope this summary has been of use. It really only illustrates some of the difference between purpose built articulated front end loaders and backhoes. Increasingly around the world diesel prices and labour costs are rising so productivity needs to be maximized. The range of hydraulically operated tools that can be operated by articulated front end loaders are now over 50 strong but that is a whole new topic!

Articulated front end loaders and a backhoe on the job site

Articulated front end loaders are designed from the ground up to deliver the highest productivity in materials handling. Their whole chassis...

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