Wheeler braking system

[grocerythrower]

At Sysco we are required to have operating brakes on our wheelers, we use padde brakes where the paddles fall to the rear on the tires, there is a steel or something rod from the brake handle to the paddle axel.

I went to help my friend friday and used his wheeler to roll a load down the ramp, his is a test braking system, still paddle brakes but the paddles fall to the front and from the brake handle there are 2 cables running to the paddle axle, these brakes were so awesome!!!

My question is, do any of you guys use this system? If so how do you like it? This system is much lighter, its really cool stuff, I want it on mine!!!

[TedWard]

When they put it on mine, it made the dolly noticeably heavier. The older brakes had a tendency to flip over, especially if your tires were low. I guess I like the new ones, I use them all the time because of the levers are easier to grab. They don't brake as well as the old ones, but better for me because I never used the old ones anyway. I had to have them trim the levers back a few inches because they would hit my thighs when I went down the ramp. It's my understanding that they no longer make the old ones, so they can't get parts for them. If you want them, break yours, they will be forced to upgrade. The only other thing is it gets in the way of the baggy on back, so if I put a 1 gal split in it, it leans against the cables and makes the brakes rub a little. I used to put film wrap in the baggy, but can't anymore.

[Moneyman01]

Whats a wheeler or a dolly?

[grocerythrower]

Whats a wheeler or a dolly?

Like I said..cush!! Any man that does 1400-1600 cases and gets done in 6 hrs has a cush job, and you don't have a wheeler..I'm jealous...you should get a 2nd job doing hard labor, that would make me feel better, could you do that for me?

[TedWard]

Dolly (noun)

1 : a shackle for the hand or wrist
2 : something used as a restraint

Examples of DOLLY

<Dolly prevented the driver from roaming beyond a very small area>
<the warring groups need to shake off the dollies of their troubled past and learn to live with one another in peace>

Origin of DOLLY
Middle English dolly, from Anglo-French, from Latin dollicula handle, diminutive of dollae shackles

[TedWard]

Check out this baby:

[grocerythrower]

Check out this baby:

I like it except for the handle bars, I use a loop type handle, can't use anything else, everybody hates my wheeler, all of ours are vertical handles, that makes my arm hurt, my wheeler is the best..LOL!!

[buffalobill]

u guys at other shops use brakes? your nuts, just do it the old school way and drag a tire on the one of the ramp rails! once you learn it, your brakes will collect dust, and you will be sick of the extra weight!

[grocerythrower]

u guys at other shops use brakes? your nuts, just do it the old school way and drag a tire on the one of the ramp rails! once you learn it, your brakes will collect dust, and you will be sick of the extra weight!

We aren't allowed to use a wheeler without brakes Bill, its Sysco OK's policy, they say it saves our knees, my brakes have been busted for 6 months, the boss has known about it for 6 months, if I try and use them they grab and I'll do an end over, I just use my massive muscles to hold the wheeler back when going down the ramp...thats right, table muscle is good for something..LOL!!!

[TedWard]

I used the ramp thing at first, then I just pulled against it. I never used the brakes until I got the new ones, the old ones were junk, the new ones with my new tires rock.

Again... what am I still doing up?