Edbro's bigger bucket loaders
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• Models for both sixand eight-wheel trucks have been added to the range of bucket loader hydraulic skip-handling equipment produced by Edbro Ltd.
Hitherto, Edbro has produced bucket loaders only for four-wheel trucks with gross weights ranging from 12.5 to 16 tons. The new models are suitable for trucks with gross weights of 20, 22 and 24 tons.
The new BLB3 loader will fit a wide range of short-wheelbase six-wheelers, and can lift 12 tons from 2ft 6in. below ground level. With a lift capacity of 14 tons from 2ft 6in. below ground level, the BLB3L model is intended for medium-wheelbase sixand eight-wheelers.
The bucket loader consists of a heavygauge welded steel platform built integrally with a sub-frame mounted on a vehicle chassis, skips being suspended by detachable chains from a bar supported by two hydraulically operated steel lifting arms. Skips can be tipped at an angle of more than 90 deg.
Twin hydraulic stabilizer jacks are provided
to take the strain off the chassis at the rear during loading and tipping. The standard jacks have universal hall-joint feet with base plates to provide for uneven ground, but verticaldrop roller jacks can be fitted at option.
Roller jacks will be a feature of a BLB2L unit which will be seen on a Bedford KM 158in. wheelbase 16-ton gross chassis on the Edbro stand at the International Reclamation and Disposal Exhibition at Olympia, London, next month (July 14-18).