How to Choose the Right Stair Climbing Hand Truck for Your Business

To improve your productivity, efficiency and reduce physical strain, powered stair climbing hand trucks have been built to solve the challenging task of moving heavy loads up and down stairs.

In this post, I will share with you how to choose the right stair climbing hand truck for your business step by step and what factors you will have to consider.

Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Steps to Choose the Right Stair Climbing Hand Truck

Firstly, pay attention to the quality and performance of the machine. The quality of the motor and battery directly affects the operation effect and lifespan of the stair climbing hand truck, so it is necessary to choose it with solid quality.

At the same time, factors such as the stair climbing speed, load capacity, safety, noise,and after-sales service of the product also need to be considered.

Secondly, we should pay attention to the applicability of the product. Different stair climbers are suitable for different scenarios and load requirements, and you need to choose the appropriate model according to your actual business needs.

The advantages of powered stair climbing hand truck for your business:

1. Convenient and fast: The stair climbing hand truck can carry heavy loads go up and downstairs easily with just single operator, which avoids the difficulty and inconvenience of traditional transportation methods.
2. Labor-saving and efficient: The motorized stair climber is battery-powered, which can greatly reduce the labor burden and improve the handling efficiency.
3. Safe and reliable: The stair climbing dolly has reasonable design, simple operation, easy to use and strong reliability, some models are equipped with edge brake to avoid slipping on stairs when going downstairs, such as ZW7170GFC and ZW7200GC.
4. Wide application: The electric stair climbing machine is suitable for various occasions, such as residences, offices, factories, shopping malls, etc., and also can be easily transported indoors and outdoors.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Stair Climbing Hand Truck

Material

Carbon steel and aluminum alloy are the most widely used materials for stair climbing hand truck..High-strength Carbon Steel is extremely strong and shock resistant,it is very economical.Aluminum alloy is lightweight, and sturdy guaranteed to last.

Safety

Safety first！ When moving heavy duty loads, we not only need to consider improving the efficiency of the operator, but also ensuring their safety, so an ergonomically designed operation switch and handle are necessary. One fingertip push operation enable the stair climbing hand truck stop immediately. The title angle on stairs can be adjusted thanks to the ergonomic handle according to different height of loads and the height of operator.

Battery

Battery capacity is an important factor that you should consider when choosing a stair climbing machine. Powered Stair climbing machines mainly use two types of batteries: lead-acid battery and lithium battery.

Compared with the lead-acid battery, lithium battery has better endurance and weight.On the market, many sellers falsely mark the capacity of the batteries and use inferior lithium batteries. After using these batteries for a few months, problems gradually become apparent.

Load Capacity

Different goods have different load requirements for powered stair climbers. For example, for the construction materials industry, they may need a motorized stair climber that can carry 500lbs to move sand, cement, tiles, etc.. But for some property companies or apartment, they may not have very high requirements for load capacity, but instead pay more attention to the issue of noise.

Noise

If your business is to delivery appliances for your customers, you have to pay attention to the noise whether affects people’s daily life during operating the powered stair climber. Hence, a reliable and high-quality motor is necessary. The brushless DC motor will be a nice choice to control the noise, it usually can be controlled below 70 decibels when maneuver loads of 200 kg.

In addition, the tires will affect the noise too. Solid tires are puncture resistant and maintenance-free. They have a high loading capacity. Pneumatic tires have better shock resistance and less reduction, it is more stable, which is suitable for handling heavy goods such as househould appliances and fragile goods. If you mind noise, pneumatic tires are more suitable.

Compatible Step Requirements

You will have to consider about the your step height to see if the powered stair climbing hand truck can work on your staircase or not. For example, all of Soduro powered stair climbing hand truck is compatible with the step height which is less than 8.3 inches.

The step type is another factor to check. Is this powered stair climbing hand truck compatible with straight stairs only? Is it compatible with spiral staircase? Can it work on wooden staircase， cement staircase, ceramics staircase and carpet staircase?

Good powered stair climbers can work on both straight staircase and spiral staircase and can work on almost all types of staircase surfaces, but you will have to ensure your carpet is sticky tightly on the stairs if you use a motorized stair climbing hand truck work it.

Professional After-sales Service

Compare with traditional hand truck, the powered stair climbing hand truck is not cheap, so choosing a reliable and trustworthy can ensure your rights if you have problems with it and solve it.

Fast delivery can avoid your anxiety on waiting the package. Even there is problems during the shipping, the in time communication can avoid misunderstanding and increase trust.

More and more companies stock their items locally to provide better customer experience these years. For instance, Soduro deliver from their California warehouse directly to all the locations in US mainlands.

Final Thoughts

In short, when choosing an electric stair climber, you have to consider the quality, performance of the product, as well as applicability and reliability. Only by choosing a suitable stair climber can we better meet the handling needs and improve work efficiency and safety.

As we all know, Soduro delivers the innovative stair climbing solutions for the material handling industry in USA, they provide different loading capacity stair climbing dolly from 375lbs to 925lbs loading capacity that can solve your problem of moving heavy loads up and down stairs. Their powered stair climber are widely used in property management companies, HVAC installing sites, logistics company, gas cylinder factories, beverage companies, shopping malls, warehouses, and hospitals.

And all the battery of these stair climber adopts removable and rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which ensure the lifespan of the battery. Besides they continuously update products based on customer needs and feedback, and always can exceeds customer expectations. If there is a problem with the machine, please be assured the professional after-sales team can solve all your problems within 12 hours.