Custom Electrician Equipment: Material Handling Solutions Built to Spec

Electrical wholesalers face unique material handling challenges that require unique material handling solutions. Your standard utility cart is useless in the face of light fixtures, wire coils, or bundles of rigid conduit. An unmodified forklift can’t lift a loaded steel cable reel.

Luckily, there’s a whole universe of electrician equipment dedicated to material handling, in the warehouse or on the jobsite:

• You can fill cable orders with a Spool Winding Trolley, then deliver those orders, ready to install, on a Parallel Reel Payout.
• You can outfit forklifts to handle cable reels with an Overhead Reel Lifter or Reel Handler Attachment.
• You can haul light fixtures on a Light Fixture Cart, wire coils on a Wire Coil Cart, and rigid conduit on a Conduit Carrier Cart.

But what happens when even this specialized electrician equipment doesn’t solve your material handling challenge? Maybe your orders are bigger than normal. Maybe you work with specialty electrical components. Maybe you even fabricate custom lighting, covers, ducting, or transformers. When off-the-shelf tools don’t support your mission, you just have one option left: Custom electrician equipment, built to your unique specifications.

The engineering team at BHS, Inc. is always ready to modify existing electrician equipment to fit any need. We can even work with you to design an entirely new material handling solution. Our specialty engineers work just down the hall from our 148,000 square-foot production facility, so designs go from the page to the welding station — and back — in a hurry.     

What does that look like? Here are just a few examples of the custom alterations to BHS material handling solutions, available on request.

Custom Features for Electrician Equipment from BHS, Inc.

1. Custom Sizes

The LFC-4848-model Light Fixture Cart carries up to 48 standard 2-foot square lighting fixtures. But what if you sell 6-foot fixtures, or round fixtures, or your own custom designs? Work with BHS to build a Light Fixture Cart that’s sized for your unique products.

That’s just one example, of course. Custom sizing is available for any and all BHS Electrical Material Carts, built for everything from transformers to conduit to wire coils.

2. Custom Weight Capacities

The Overhead Reel Lifter is a forklift attachment with a hook-and-chain assembly that lifts cable reels via carrier axles. This tool is rated for up to 5,000 pounds (assuming, of course, the lift truck is similarly capable). But maybe you work with cable reels that weigh even more. 

The BHS team can design and build forklift attachments, electrician carts, or any other material handling solution to match virtually any weight capacity. Just ask.

3. Custom Shelving Layouts

Transformer Carts from BHS, Inc. are already designed to support most standard transformers and distribution boxes at once. But maybe you need to add a shelf for spare power cables, too, or need support for non-standard transformers. At BHS, Inc., we can modify shelves and layouts to match your needs.

For example, take the Tilting Elevator Conduit Cart. While our standard Conduit Carrier Cart is ideal for transporting a whole job’s worth of rigid conduit, some of our customers needed to work in narrow aisles. That required a new approach to transporting conduit: A tiltable storage compartment that adjusts to fit into elevator cars and around tight corners. We can make similar adjustments for all our products.

4. Custom Construction Materials and Finishes

Most BHS material handling equipment is made of welded steel and finished with a chemical-resistant powder coating. But maybe you have a customer who works in food production or pharmaceutical facilities, which require stainless steel material handling equipment. We can build our electrical products with this or any other suitable metal — including alternate finishes.  

5. Custom Branding Elements

Electrical wholesalers may rent out their material handling equipment. Even better, they might ship orders pre-loaded onto material handling carts, giving customers a complete delivered solution. In either case, you’ll need to clearly mark your equipment with your own branding.

The BHS team can laser-cut your logo on electrician equipment. We can also finish products with a powder coating in your brand colors. With custom branded electrician equipment from BHS, Inc., there’s no danger of your gear getting lost in the crowd.

Best of all, it’s easy to get any of these custom options on your next material handling solution. Just reach out to BHS, Inc. to start the conversation, fill out this form, or call the BHS sales team at 1.800.BHS.9500 today.