LOBO Systems Launches A Construction Plant Work Platform Solution

Construction plant is used in landscaping, agriculture, construction, waste management, forestry and mining applications. Deploying a wheel loader, backhoe, loading shovel or excavator makes your material handling and loading jobs safer, faster, more precise and more profitable.

Safe working at height platforms are necessary for workshop and field-based maintenance repairs. Maintenance tasks are a high priority, for example, servicing. Construction plant machinery maintenance which includes regular inspections of engines, gearboxes and hydraulics, identifying faults and repairing or replacing faulty parts and carrying out routine servicing of plant and equipment.

The Solution

The LOBO Advanced Platform System is a perfect working at height product that offers the solution and provides a safe, sturdy and quick to assemble system around, under and over any construction plant machinery.

The LOBO System is a versatile work platform product that combines the flexibility and strength of traditional scaffolding with the simplicity and mobility of tower systems. This combination provides the ultimate access system that can be utilised across all maintenance industries and no assembly tools are required. The system is particularly useful if you have awkward and restricted areas to reach and is quick to erect - the system in the photographs took only 20 minutes to assemble.

LOBO can be easily configured to fit all the major manufacturers including JCB, Caterpillar, Case, Hitachi, John Deere, Hyundai, Kawasaki, Manitou, Volvo and many more.

The LOBO System comprises of trestle legs that vary in size, with adjustable top and fixed side bracing clamps. Steel or aluminium tubes are then passed through the clamps; the clamps are hand tightened to form a trestle. Sway braces, wheels, handrails, outriggers, adjustable extensions and even a lifting beam can be added to enhance the construction.

The LOBO System can be transported from the site and assembled with ease from a flat pack into any required configuration, by your vehicle mechanics.

Product Benefits

a) LOBO is scalable, adaptable and adjustable to meet your ongoing and changing requirements. Simply add more components or alter your existing configuration to satisfy the demands of the next task.

b) LOBO is a rigid and stable product, which meets or exceeds current safety regulations. Handrails can be fitted in seconds, at any point in the erection process.

c) LOBO’s steel structure ensures many years of product life cycle and a system that will not shake or rattle. The system can also include a slider lifting beam kit and a Towerstore storage unit.

d) LOBO’s modular approach means components fully integrate and can be hand-carried. Fully constructed systems can also be made mobile by the addition of wheels.

Experience shows that deploying the LOBO System reduces the costs associated with hiring scaffolding and constructing bespoke access systems. By reducing your reliance on outsourced scaffolding and engineering companies cost savings will be achieved – easily in 12 months.

With this quantifiable reduction in costs comes the added savings associated with reduced downtime and greater productivity from your maintenance department.

Available 24/7, quick to erect- and above all safe- it is immediately adjustable for your next job with no staff waiting time while scaffolders are engaged or new fixed-frame structures are manufactured. Re-configurable, again and again, this product comes with no disposal costs and minimal replacement and ongoing training costs.

“This LOBO System is so simple - it's brilliant and once your workforce has had the excellent training offered by LOBO you will never look at a tower scaffold again.” Martin Elliker-HSQE Manager.