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Florida’s Ace Pick-A-Part Runs SDLG Fleet
With more than 30 years in the auto salvage business, Ace Pick-A-Part has earned its expertise in handling vehicles. The company holds some 3,000 cars on its lot at any one time, with easy access for customers to pull parts for repairs. It also recycles approximately 10,000 cars a year, using a fleet of wheel loaders to haul hundreds of vehicles each day. Ace Pick-A-Part has been using wheel loaders of different brands and capacity sizes. Since 2016, Ace Pick-A-Part has selected SDLG as its wheel loader of choice. It is currently using 2 SDLG LG959s with plans to add more loaders to its fleet this year. “We started our business using forklifts, but wheel loaders are much more maneuverable, and they have increased wheel distances and higher capacities that are better suited to our needs,” explained Gary Lindros Jr., general manager at the company. “We had custom fork attachments made that enable us to lift up to 4 crushed cars at once. The longer forks reach through the cars and there is a stop on them so the cars won’t slide back.”
Since taking delivery of the machines in June of 2016, the company has been running the SDLG loaders 6 days a week, all day long. Operators took to the wheel loaders quickly as operation is “easy and pretty standard for the industry,” according to Gary Lindros. The LG959s are mainly used to lift cars from flatbeds and put them on stands on the company’s lot. Once the cars have been picked for parts, they are taken to a crusher where up to 4 vehicles are compressed together. The loaders then lift the stacks of cars that weigh up to 2 t and place them on flatbeds to be taken for steel recycling. The company also swaps out the fork attachment occasionally for a 3.0 m3 bucket to perform groundwork repairs at its facility and various other tasks.
The LG959 has an operating weight of 17,350 kg. It features a Tier 3 Deutz engine with 221 hp and 777 lbf ft of torque; ZF transmission and axles; wet disc brakes; a hydraulic quick coupler and 3rd function hydraulics; a modern fit and finish with high visibility; and an operator-friendly cab. Ace Pick-A-Part has been so impressed with its SDLG loaders that the company plans to purchase more as it replaces its aging fleet in years to come. Again, the company will look to Flagler Construction Equipment, with which it has had a relationship for several years. “We always have a great experience with Flagler,” said Gary Lindros Jr. “We feel at ease buying from them and there are never any surprises. The SDLG units have been performing perfectly well, so we’re very pleased with both Flagler and SDLG.”
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When Ace Pick-A-Part needed to replace 2 of the 7 wheel loaders in its fleet, SDLG was suggested by Flagler Construction Equipment, which is based in Tampa but also has a location in Jacksonville. SDLG’s value proposition – in which the brand offers basic, reliable technology that is field proven and backed by a substantial warranty – won Mr. Lindros over.
“One advantage of the SDLGs is the easy maintenance,” explained Mr. Lindros. “We like to handle our own maintenance and the side panels make the engine very accessible. With other loaders we’ve owned in the past, you sometimes had to pull the whole engine cover off for a routine task. The SDLG machines make it easy for us to keep them maintained and running without going to a dealer for basic maintenance.”
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