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Wed 29 Jan 2014

Making excavators even more versatile

During my previous visits to Sweden I have noticed that in addition to most machines having a tiltrotator system fitted, many machines and especially wheeled excavators, are also put to use pulling their own tipping trailers, another concept that the Swedes have been using for a long time and something that is gradually catching on in the UK too. One UK user springs to mind immediately with Ollie Kitchen and his all singing all dancing Komatsu PW160 which he has equipped with a trailer following a visit to Sweden with Engcon in the past. Combining an excavator with a trailer offers the user so much more scope to perform different tasks. You can dig and load yourself, then transport the dug material to the tip eliminating the need for an on-site dumper for instance which can enable you to keep costs down. You can carry all sorts of building materials including palatalised bricks and blocks when used in conjunction with a tiltrotator and fork attachment. And it doesn’t just stop with wheeled excavators, at MaskinExpo in 2012 I saw this Take-Job (Takeuchi in UK) TB250 that was on display with a tipping trailer that really impressed me! And for those that think the concept would not work in the mud, check out this video featuring our Swedish friend Robert Carlsson with his Volvo EW160 and trailer, tackling some tricky conditions
As I have been saying for many years, we can learn a lot from our Scandinavian cousins, on how to make life easier by thinking outside the box.  

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