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Understanding your requirements

Selecting the right socket or base is essential to getting the best performance from your Reid Davit or PPE system. The correct mounting solution ensures your equipment is positioned safely, securely, and efficiently for the task at hand, whether that involves confined space access, fall protection, rescue operations, or material lifting.

Choose Your Fixed Sockets

Fixed Sockets

Fixed sockets provide a secure, bolted or cast‑in anchor point for our davit systems. These solutions are ideal where you have structural building points and want a reliable system for repeated lifting or fall protection work.

Top Mount Socket

Designed to be bolted into existing concrete steel structures or any other secure substrates.

Side Mount Socket

Designed for attachment to side of concrete walls or steel structures.

Bridge Mount Socket

Designed to fit open mesh grating or flush with structural steel work.

Cast-in Flush Mount Socket

For installing into new concrete structures, secured using addition structural pins.

Resin Bonded Flush Mount

Installed into existing concrete flooring.

Socket Extensions

Used to increase the height of lift when used in conjunction with the standard range of Reid sockets.

Socket Pedestals

Designed for challenges where additional height of lift is required prior to initial installation of the socket.

Choose Your Portable Base

Portable Bases – Materials & Personnel

Portable Bases remove the need for fixed sockets when site conditions or access make permanent installation impractical. Our Portable Bases allow you to deploy davit systems in temporary, level, and uneven ground environments with minimal setup time.

Porta Base H-Base

For use around hatches or confined space entry points.

Porta Base Counterbalance

For placement in front of hatches or working edges to allow you to get closer to the work area.

Porta Base Trailer Hitch

For placement in front of hatches or working edges, while attached to the tow-bar of a vehicle.

Choose Your Portable Base

Portable Bases – Personnel only

Portable Bases remove the need for fixed sockets when site conditions or access make permanent installation impractical. Our Portable Bases allow you to deploy davit systems in temporary, level, and uneven ground environments with minimal setup time.

PortX H-Base

Suitable to be placed around confined space access points and be used in combination with the PortX Davit range.

PortX Base Counterbalance

For vertical confined space entry and over-edge access applications, with the PortX Davit XR and PortX Davit.

PortX Base Trailer Hitch

For vertical confined space entry and over-edge access applications, in combination with a vehicle as the counterweight with the PortX Davit XR and PortX Davit.

PortX Y-Base

For both the PortX Davit XR and PortX Davit and designed for vertical confined space entry applications.

Choose Your Portable Socket

Portable Sockets

Portable Sockets are engineered for trenching and shoring applications, supporting a range of davits for personnel safety or materials handling.

PortX Saddle Mount

Purpose-built for trenching & shoring applications, with a 0-160mm clamping range and compatibility with all Reid 65mm kingpin davits up to 1200mm radius.

PortX Barrel Mount

Designed for trenching & shoring and parapet wall applications, compatible with all Reid 65mm kingpin davits up to 1200mm radius.

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