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• Road planning specialist Tetlaw Contracting of Newton Abbott operates a fleet of 10 road planers which are moved to road repair sites on dedicated low-loaders.
As the low-loaders inevitably stand idle most of the time, managing director Mike Tetlaw has designed his own dual-purpose semi-trailer.
It is hauled by a Leyland Daf 80-330 4x2 and runs at 38 tonnes delivering 21-tonne Wirtgen scrapers to sites. But it also works as a tipper outfit until the resurfacing is completed.
The Rymar step-frame trailer cost nearly £80,000. It is equipped with a sliding, tri-axled bogie and 6.7m tipping body mounted on a cable-operated Multilift system.
When moving the planer the bogie is secured in the rearmost position by air-operated locking pins: the planer is positioned to ensure correct axle loading.
To unload, the pins are released, the bogie slides forward and the tail gate is lowered. The body moves to the rear and tilts simultaneously until it rests on its end rollers, allowing the planer to be driven off.
With the body retracted, the combination can then re-join Tetlaw's tipper fleet.