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TIP OF THE TOP AT TIPCON
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• Harrogate sweltered and Tipcon gleamed yet there was no hiding the air of difference among body and trailer builders.
Order books are nowhere near as fat as normal and no one really believes that the present lean spell is about to pass.
Several major trailer manufacturers go so far as to predict that it will continue beyond the end of the year while others have a nervous look about them when asked.
Yet, despite this, everyone was putting on a brave face and although there was a dearth of major new developments, there were many excellent examples of tipper equipment to be savoured.
0 Every Tipcon produces a crop of superbly-built aluminium bodywork and there has been no finer than Weltors 24m3 tipper for Peacock Brothers.
Mounted on a Foden 4300 8x4 with Harsh K100 tipgear with external hand control valve, the body is supported on cross bearers set beneath each vertical side support.
A hardwood-filled pusher frame at the rear is insurance against getting stuck in the mud.
0 Among its wide product range Edbro exhibited its recently announced PT-0/ pump range for most truckmounted cranes, and a specialist dump truck.
It is one of a current MoD order for 91 vehicles intended for work in extremely low temperatures.
Based on the successfully trialled 35 tonne Iveco 330.25 6x6 chassis it has an Edbro 9.0m3 steel scow-ended steel body which weighs 4.5 tonnes alone.
A DK14 three-stage hoist with power-down on the last stage will lift its 16-tonne payload in under 10 seconds.
Special body features include exhaust heating to free the load in sub-zero weather and automatic tailgate locking.
Edbro's new nine-cylinder piston pumps will match its side and rear-mount PT-O's. There are four models each with a 275 bar maximum operation pressure, of 30 and 401itimin at 500 and 1,000rpm and flows to suit varying PT-0 output speed ratios.
Peak flows are restricted to prevent crane overspeed misuse.
0 Two new all-aluminium versions of Don-Bur's Multilowda and Paylowda trailers means that there are now lightweight alloy alternatives to its entire range of steel rigid bodies or trailers.
A third exhibit, a stepframed aluminium general purpose Multilowda was built specially for Eueat in Portugal and could result in orders for another 12.
Its N8 alu-chassis with four box-sectioned cross members saves 500kg over equivalent steel frame.
SAF axles with front lifter and air suspension are fitted beneath the 9.75m long, 47m3 body bringing its tare weight to 5,850kg.
With the Paylowda being one of Don-Bur's best sellers the all-alu version adds another 400kg payload.
0 With growing concern for the environment in mind, George Neville Truck Equipment has begun marketing the new-to-the-UK Raitex automatic sheeting system.
Fitted to a Constructor 30.26 8 x 4 it is said to be suitable for most applications, fits any size body and can be made to run front-to-rear or across the body.
Opening takes between 1015 seconds.
It operates pneumatically using an air pump and drive motor, set on the top rail from a switch in the cab. An extra air tank with pressure protection valve is included.
The package costs between £2-3,000 depending on length, adds 250kg for a 6.1m version with another 24kg per extra metre.
0 Having only recently acquired small skip manufacturer BKS Hydraulics, David Mackrill Engineering has now added the BKS Easilift to its range.
Whereas DMK systems previously began at 14 tonners, the Easilift extends
downwards for 7.5 tonners carrying containers up to 9.2m3.
Also on show was its 13m3 two-compartment twinlift MacTipper on a Cargo 1411 chassis for Cambridge District Council.
The company is currently building a three-compartment model for another City borough for three-coloured glass collection.
It will have smaller 340 litre bin-lift between two, 1,100 litre lifters. The system is built on Cargos with an SVO factory option of narrow rear axle with wide single tyres.
DMK also exhibited steel encased rechargeable lamps that can be secured to skips or scaffolding.
1=1 Although traditionally known for its sand and aggregate bodies, Telehoist has now added Muckaways to its Tel-Lite and Tel-Loy tipper ranges.
The first one with a 5.49m, 12m3 body was shown on a Renault G260 6x4 chassis, and with the improved front end G-ram, its tare weight is 10.06 tonnes.
Fitted on a Cargo 2428 chassis reduces this by 610kg.
Telehoist is also a considerable exporter, selling 48 or its 9.2m skip loaders to Thailand and a number of its Tel-Lite bodies and additional tip gears for Comet 1614's to Ghana.
E While some trailer manufacturers report quiet trading, SDC Trailers celebrated its 10th anniversary with plans to double its 2,230m2Toornebridge.
Antrim factory later this year, has a weekly output of over 25 trailers with orders for another 200 in the bag.
Its Tipcon exhibits included a 9,6m all-aluminium stepped trailer for carrying bulk malt.
Loading is through four sets of hinged roof traps and discharging via the Hyva tip gear through hatched rear doors.
The 57m3 bulk trailer runs on 8.0 tonne RO-R axles with front lifter and air suspension and tares out at 6.5 tonnes.
SDC has its main sales office at Bold near Widnes, is applying for BS5750 and offers a two-year warranty on its trailers.
0 Crane Fruehauf had two new models at Harrogate; an all-aluminium tipping semitrailer on tandem-axled T-air
suspension plus a 20m3 alloy rigid body built by Benalu and available through C-F's European operation.
The 7.33m Benalu truck body shown on a 32.300 Iveco chassis has a sloping bulkhead to protect the tipping ram.
Side ribs on the 6.6m, 1,32m high body are supported by alternate floor cross beams set at 360mm pitch. Its automaticlocking tailgate is hung to the extruded alloy top rail with its inner sloping face.
O Examples of automatic tailgate locks include this wellengineered electro-pneumatic system from Crane-Fruehauf, costing £800 on a 24.3m3 aggregate dump body. It is made to comply with the legal requirement in France.
There was a much more simplified home-made device on show from K&J Withey based on a standard air brake cylinder set beneath the body tail.
It operates a transverse bar with hook clamps from within the tail box section.
The system shown on a Constructor 2426-mounted 5.49m Maxilite, costs £350 compared with the sturdy Autogate package which costs £850 and is also supplied by Withey as a proprietary system.
0 Operators concerned with empty body noise were attracted to Stevecastle's Siientride bonded rubber mounting system fitted to a 9.9m aluminium step-framed tipper with M&G, SAF airsprung trailer.
The system is included as standard on trailers but costs an extra £250 on rigid bodies, where it saves 40kg overall conventional alu-timber runners.
Stevecastle is currently developing an aluminium sliding roof cover system. I= Barnsley manufacturer NMI Truck Bodies marked its entry into the trailer market with a 44m3 aluminium step framed bulk tipper on a Tinsley trailer.
It is the third for Hansons and there is another in build, all with RO-R axles and monoleaf suspension.
The 9.75m body with its 1.93m high sides also features a neat opening top cover with tensioning system.
When unfastened at the rear the canopy slides forward along wire cables and is reversed for closure.
The wire rope is tensioned from the front.
E A Neville Charrold Nevilloy builk tipper built for West Yorkshire operator W&S Winterburn of Cowling has been specially strengthened to carry semi-fluid loads.
Based on a Volvo FLIO 8x4 and using Harsh L120 underfloor tipgear the body has extra floor bracing tied in alternately to the vertical posts.
The sealing tailgate has substantial tabs, locking into captive channels and screw clamps.
At the lighter end of the scale N-C introduced its steelbodied Nipper non-HGV tipper on a Renault S08 Midliner.
0 A new addition to the Wilcox family of aluminium monocoques, Monolite, was unveiled at Tipcon, mounted on a Foden 4300 8x4 chassis, belonging to the John Owen Aggregate fleet.
Alloy-built, the 6.86m body uses two full-length pressed runners instead of cross bearers. Sides are 1,524mm high for shifting coal.
Wilcox also had an example of its all-terrain on-board weighers, fitted to a stepframed tipping trailer.
It uses sensors in the tipgear and the rear pivot to supply data to a small in-cab computer which then informs the driver of the all-up weight.
Wilcox also showed an inclinometer with in-cab indicator that warns the driver audibility and visually of impending instability.
A PT-0 cut-out to stop the tipping operation if the warnings are ignored is an option.
Burnsway Metals of Market Drayton has leaned on its scrap handling experience to produce steel bodied trailers built for the purpose.
The step frame body uses four impact angles, running full length which it says overcomes discharge problems through sticking loads.
Built for Chequers Iron and Steel, the trailer is said to offer payloads up to 23 tonnes using a suitable FL10 4 x 2 tractor.
With its 25mm plate steel hinges and sturdy locking clamp for the rear barn doors, the trailer retails at £15,000.
Burnsway built 16 such units last month solely for the scrap trade.
A bulk blowing tipping trailer with a positively steered rear axle is Dennison's solution to negotiating tight lanes and farm entries.
It uses a West German steering mechanism controlled by the fifth wheel coupling and linked to the axle via rods and a turntable.
Power comes from a VM air-cooled diesel (A tractor unit power pack or hydraulic drive is optional) and for its customer Avonmore Co-op, Dennison fits a Bulkerpart blower with hydraulic slit and left or right dischage outlets.
Tandem Dana Spicer axles with Lynx air suspension is supplied plus fuel and oil tanks. With Murphy-built multi-compartment aluminium bodywork, the trailer weighs just over 7.0 tonnes for 30.49 operation.
0 Most of the vehicles bodied by Welford Truck Bodies are equipped with cranes of one type or another, some even have pile drivers, all of which explains why WTB sold over £1 million of hydraulic loaders last year.
For Tipcon, Welford showed a neat Roadrunner 8.13 with HMF 460 4.0 tonne/ metre loader with 1601it Kinshofer clamshell bucket. Its steel dropside body lifts via a Stallion underfloor ram. At 7.5 tonnes gross it offers a 2.46 tonne payload and for operators wanting extra load tolerance at the front, a Comet 10-tonne axle can be specified.
Welford is part of Omega UK Holdings which has a £105 million turnover.