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Originally Posted by Mike Marandola
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With 6 wheeled trolleys, it is usually the pulling motion that allows the trolley to climb stairs, the person pulling it up the stairs is standing at around 45 degrees upwards of the trolley, so there pulling is what is actually causing the tri-wheels to jump up each step, if you tried pushing it up it wouldn’t do much. The key I see to the tri-wheel style obstacle crossing mechanism is that the distance from bottom of the wheel to the tri-wheel pivot, must be greater than the maximum height of the obstacles is has the cross(sort of obvious). Last year we asked to borrow a trolley from our school’s maintenance department/people and they gave us a 6-wheel trolley where each wheel was a very rugged 125mm Omni-wheel.