Buying Guide
How To Choose A Truck Wheel Chock For Your Yard Surface
Rubber, cast iron or steel: how yard surface, handling and visibility decide which of the six S&L wheel chock models belongs at your dock face.
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Knowledge Centre
Buying and Sizing Guides For Dock and Drum Equipment
Six guides written from the same specification sheets the product pages use. No general advice, no filler: each one answers a question that decides a model code.
Technical Guide
Static Capacity And Lifting Capacity On A Trailer Jack
Why a trailer jack has two published ratings, what each one means on the S&L SL-TJ range, and how wheel size and service range decide which model fits your yard.
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Sizing Guide
Sizing A Self-Dumping Hopper By Volume Weight And Steel Gauge
How to read the S&L hopper tables: why volume and capacity are separate decisions, what 12, 10 and 7 gauge steel mean in service, and how to check fork pocket centres before ordering.
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Sizing Guide
Sizing A Dock Board By Capacity Width And Height Difference
How to read the S&L TAS dock board table: totalling the real load, matching board length to the height difference, and when a steel deck beats an aluminium one.
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Comparison Article
Drum Caddies Clutchers Carts Racks And Grabs Compared
Five ways to handle a 55 gallon steel drum, what each one is actually for, and the published S&L capacities that separate them.
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Design Guide
Where To Put Bollards Guard Rails And Rack Guards
Point, line and low-level protection: choosing between a 24 to 42 inch bollard, a 36 or 48 inch guard rail and a 9 inch rack guard, and where each one belongs.
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About These Guides
What are these guides based on?
The specification sheets S&L published for its own products. Every figure quoted in a guide appears in a product table on this site.
Do the guides recommend one model over another?
They explain which specification decides the choice — gauge, fork pocket centre, service range, wheel diameter — and leave the choice with you.
Can I get a guide as a PDF?
The Download Centre carries the specification sheets as PDFs. The guides themselves stay on the site so they can be corrected when a specification changes.
A Question These Guides Do Not Answer
Send it to the general manager directly. If S&L does not publish the figure you need, you will be told that rather than given a number that cannot be backed up.