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Air Skids Move Boeing & NASA’s Starliner
Air Skids Move Boilers at Chicago Airport
Moving 80,000 Boilers by Hand with Air Skids
Moving a Semi Trailer with Air Skids
Nuclear Power Plant Uses Airfloat Air Skids to Move a 38,000 lb. Engine Lathe Without a Crane
Application Guide: Air Skids: Equipment Transporting
Airfloat Video Tops Quarter-Million Views
A video posted to YouTube by Airfloat has received over 250,000 views. The video, entitled “35-ton Load Floats on Air,” was originally posted on May 12, 2011. As the name implies, it depicts a 35-ton steel roll being “floated” out of a factory on Airfloat air skids and hoisted atop a flatbed trailer. “The key […]
Record Year for Air Skid Sales
It’s no secret that Derek Jeter, Ariana Grande and Republicans had a great 2014. So did Airfloat air skids (aka “air casters”). In fact, the company sold over 500 of the pneumatic material-handling devices last year, the most in recent history. 2014 also witnessed the launch of new-and-improved air skid and air skid controller designs. Among […]
Riggers Float 25,000 lb. Load on Air
A rigging crew in Central Illinois faced an interesting challenge: moving a 25,000-lb. roller bearing housing out of a warehouse and onto a flatbed trailer. The decision was made to float the load outside the warehouse on a set of Airfloat air bearing skids. Then a mobile construction crane was used to hoist the load […]
