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No, not those kind of pickles. We often get requests for custom kit from our customers, and more often than not, the request comes with a deadline. This was no exception, Ric, our newest addition the the LTM team (you may remember him from Summit Steel) recieved a request the other day for a triple pickle. Thats right, not one or even two, but three! Pickles are different from controllers in that it is essentially one handset that controls more than one hoist. This can be useful if you already have power coming to the hoists and you just need a portable handset that you can take to the hois...

Things are changing at LTM We are appointing distributors all over the UK & Europe, many of whom are holding stock. We've sold over 600 winches since January and here we have another pallet of 100 winches being sent out to a distributor! If you're interested in becoming a stocking dealer, get in touch!

Why use a winch? Using a winch to raise & lower your clothes line can be a great help for those with mobility problems or even those with lots of washing to do! So in order to help you to select a winch we have put together the following information to guide you through some of the things that you will need to know before you can choose a winch and how to find out that information.   What you will need to know in order to select a winch: The Lifting Capacity Or put another way, you need to know how much weight  you will be hanging from the line. Each winch is rated to lift a...

This is an exciting time here at LTM and everyone in the office is thrilled about this new appointment. When we first saw the Ableforge range we new it would compliment our existing range and most importantly for us and our customers, it provides real value for money solutions within the manual handling market. The feedback we've recieved so far has been excellent and we see further possibilities outside of the UK market. In fact we already have a first few dealers from Europe signed up, with more companies approaching us every day.  Don't forget we also have our Demo Area set up...

The past few weeks have been crazy-busy at LTM following on from the launch of our range of Ableforge manual lifting products at LiftEx 2011. We've been getting so many enquiries from people wanting to try out the products for themselves that it became obvious that we needed to set up an in-house demonstration area to cope with the demand, so that's what we did! We're pleased to announce that we've dedicated an area of our warehouse so that customers can drop in and try out the products for themselves. We're thrilled with the quality and durability of this range and we want our customers to...

  As one of the biggest GIS dealers in Europe, you can imagine we get a lot of calls from customers looking for us to help them identify the part they need for their hoist. We happily do this when asked, but at busier times, we might not be able to get back to you right away.  That's why we created the GIS spares online store.   The design was the brainchild of our very own, David King. For years he's had the idea that "wouldn't it just be easier if I could see the parts list online, click on the part I want and then be able to order it online there and then?". Well yes, it w...

We have just got back from the Prolight & Sound Exhibition where we showed in Hall 9.0, alongside us were the guys from Cow our German Company who have developed over many years a range of BGVC1 Electric Chain Hoists & Winches, the BGVC1 Hoist uses the Loadguard ® hoist that we sell in various configurations generally for higher spec applications- lifting loads above people or supporting loads above people, we used the rings again that we had at Plaza with a Hoist above and below each ring so that we could pull the ...

Here's a recent  interesting anecdote that made us all smile with amazement... We manufactured two GIS electric chain hoists and fitted radio control systems to them to help the client in operation. We also fortunately fitted an auxiliary unit which allows a pendant hand control station to be used instead of the radio unit- perhaps if the batteries were flat. We always do this as standard with any radio control system we supply (belt and braces). Our customer reported that on site one of these hoists worked perfectly with the radio control, the other one worked fine with the hoist end ...