Blackwoods’ specialist lifting and rigging business, Bullivants, is Australia’s oldest, largest and most progressive specialist provider of lifting, rigging, testing and related inspection services to the industrial and mining sectors.
For over 130 years, Bullivants has played a significant part in pioneering the production, distribution, solutions, and services to manage lifting and rigging applications safely and efficiently for their customers. Earning a reputation as experts in their field, Bullivants pride themselves on safety being the number one priority.
Bullivants can help achieve a safe and productive work environment around rigging, lifting, load restraint, recovery and towing. Bullivants utilises leading expertise, quality assurance and a reliable service to assess your risks, supply quality products and support ongoing compliance.
The Bullivants Core Range
The Bullivants brand provides an exhaustive cross section of their product range, offering a complete solution for what you need for your application.
Over many years, Bullivants has built strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring products are of the highest quality and comply with Australian Standards.
The Bullivants core range covers:
- Hoisting, Winching and fabricated equipment
- Grade 100 Alloy Chain Slings
- Fibre Rope
- General Purpose Chain
- Lifting and Rigging Components
- Load Restraint
- Recovery & Towing
- Synthetic Slings
- Wire Rope Strand and Fittings
The Bullivants Hoisting Range
To choose the right hoist for your application from Bullivants’ large range of manual hoists, you should consider the following:
- Rated load capacity
- Load weight
- Shape of load
- Height of lift
- Minimum headroom required
- Frequency of use
- Environment: Corrosive, Explosive, Dusty
- Is the unit hook suspended or will it require a trolley?
- If it requires a trolley, what is the beam size it is being attached to?
Manual hoists are ideal for tight spaces and light duty applications and have a typical lifting capacity of up to 30 tonnes. Being cost effective and easy to maintain, the real benefit is that no electricity or power source is required, making them portable for any site. Power outages will never be an issue.
The Bullivants hoisting range provides options for you to select the right hoist that is suitable for your industry, including mining in open-pit and underground, construction, rural and industrial applications.
An important factor when selecting your hoist is the brake engagement force. Also known as light load rating, the brake engagement force is the minimum force expressed as a percentage that will engage the braking system to prevent a load from dropping. When choosing a manual hoist, the minimum load to be lifted is just as important as the maximum load being lifted.
Bullivants ranges two key types of manual hoists, chain blocks and lever blocks.
For vertical lifting applications chain blocks can be operated from the ground even when the hoist is positioned up high. They also allow very fine adjustment for precision raising, lowering, or positioning applications. Although chain blocks are primarily for vertical lifting, the Tiger by Bullivants premium range features a limited angled use of up to 45 degrees from vertical without deration of the working load limit.
Lever blocks are compact and lightweight, and are ideal for horizontal, angled, and low vertical loads. With the lever handle located next to the hoist suspension point, they are mostly used for horizontal pulling and hoisting operations where the operator is located close to the load.
The Bullivants and Tiger by Bullivants hoisting ranges are designed to do most of the work for you, making them durable and dependable lifting equipment. With a standard safety brake feature in the range there is also an Overload Limiter mechanism option available in both the Bullivants and Tiger by Bullivants range. Tiger by Bullivants is exclusive to Bullivants and provides a competitive edge with its high-end features solidifying Tiger as Bullivants’ premium range.
The Bullivants range of OLP (Overload Protection) Chain blocks and lever blocks feature the Overload Limiter mechanism to prevent further lifting of the load when the load limit is exceeded. This feature is designed to prevent damage to the hoist and ensuring the safety of the operator. The overload feature functions by allowing the hand wheel (chain block) or handle (lever block) to rotate without engaging the gear box, preventing further lifting of the load while safe lowering of the load is still possible.
Hoisting ancillaries
To accompany the large range of hoists there are a wide variety of Bullivants branded ancillary products. Whether you need a push or geared trolley, girder clamp, lifting clamp, magnet lifter or brake winch, Bullivants can supply solutions for your lift.
Within this range there are a variety of lifting clamps to cover almost all lifting and handling applications. These include screw cam clamps which are extremely versatile; universal plate clamps for vertical lifts and turning of steel plates and, horizontal plate clamps when unloading and lifting plate that is laid flat.
When quality and safety matters, Bullivants is a market leader in Lifting and Rigging.
Shop Bullivants’ Lifting and Rigging range here: https://www.blackwoods.com.au/bullivants